Groupentries:Status
The Groupstatus displays information about the current state of a release.
This information is displayed in the groupinfobox on every animeentry and in the groupentry for every listed group in AniDB.
| Note: | This feature doesn't have to be 100% correct as its data is generated by AniDB automatically for most parts and is very dependent on the users. This means if users didn't add all files a group released it won't show the "true" status. Please note that the states are not updated in realtime. See: Routine_Maintenance |
Possible States
(asuming all files released by the group got added to AniDB)
- complete
- The group released for every episode for a specific anime in AniDB at least 1 file.
- finished
- The group released at least a file for the last episode of an anime.
- ongoing
- The group hasn't finished/completed this series yet. The release is still ongoing.
- stalled
- The group hasn't released a file for this series for at least 2 months.
- specials only
- The group released only special Episodes, but none of the regular episodes.
- dropped
- The group has officially abandoned this project or the group isn't existing anymore.
- THIS IS THE ONLY STATE SET MANUALLY BY MODS.
- N/A / unknown
- The state of this release is currently unknown. This should generally be changed automatically to one of the other states within 24h.
| Note: | Ongoing, stalled, finished, specials only and complete are automically generated states! They're usually not set manually by a mod. |
How it works
ongoing to stalled
AniDB only check for the highest added file for an episode by a group to set states. A timestamp gets set for this episode and if a higher ep doesn't get released in a defined timeframe it gets set stalled. Adding lower eps won't change the timestamp.
Lets make an example to show what this means:
- Meitantei Conan
- Anime Conan is set 314 stalled 06.07.2003 by AniDB.
- Though they are still releasing frequently enough to qualify for ongoing. Now why are they marked stalled?
- Like shown they released ep 314 on the 06.07.2003. AniDB is waiting for them to release ep 315. Until this happens it will be stalled for eternity.
ongoing/stalled to finished/completed
A release will get considered complete/finished by AniDB if at least a file for the last ep gets added. AniDB compares the highest file with the total ep count set for the anime. If those match it's finished. If a group even released a file for every episode of this anime it's complete
Lets make an example to show what this means:
- Tennis no Ouji-sama
- SHS finished this series, but as the last ep (178) is a doubleepisode (with 177) it won't get set finished, but stalled
dropped/stalled to ongoing
This is identical to ongoing/stalled to finished/completed. Once an episode with a higher number than the one with the timestamp gets added it gets updated to another state.
ongoing/stalled to dropped
This process is manual! Set accordingly on the anime or groupages
Problems
The AniDB status system obviously has various problems.
- No relations between the groups that would influence the status.
(example: HnG)
While there are parent child connections between groups, they are nothing more than links. There is no dataexchange between those groups. Meaning if a series is done by a Team which splits up in the middle of the release and gets finished by 1 of the 2 groups it will only get set finished instead of completed.
See also: AniDB Bugtracker - stronger group relations/virtual groups
-partially done-