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 =Vision=
-AniDB users can create highly personalized signature images which can be used in forum singatures and which acurately reflect user specific or general AniDB data. Some examples are:
+AniDB users can create highly personalised signature images which can be used in forum signatures and which accurately reflect user specific or general AniDB data. Some examples are:
-* Mylist statistics of the user (Mylist size, latest added, latest watched, total watched, ...)
+* MyList statistics of the user (MyList size, latest added, latest watched, total watched, ...)
-* Vote statistics general or user based (Top3 animes, my Top3, worst anime ever, ...)
+* Vote statistics general or user based (Top3 anime, my Top3, worst anime ever, ...)
 * General AniDB statistics
 * Group statistics (Latest releases by group X, ...)
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 The user would not need any webspace to host such images and would not need to update/regenerate them. All signature images would be directly loaded from an AniDB webserver.
-The idea is for the sig server to be the middle entity between AniDB and the user, which allows almost any kind of singature pic to be created, according to the personal preferences of the user. As such a lot of attention should go towards the configuration/customization interface of such a feature. We are aware that this is a hell lot of work, but it's the long term goal. The image generation itself is fairly easy.
+The idea is for the sig server to be the middle entity between AniDB and the user, which allows almost any kind of signature pic to be created, according to the personal preferences of the user. As such a lot of attention should go towards the configuration/customisation interface of such a feature. We are aware that this is a hell lot of work, but it's the long term goal. The image generation itself is fairly easy.
-Basically AniDB will offer all kinds of stats data and more via xml, much more than is currently on offer. The sig server would transparently get it's data from AniDB and the user will be able to pick all kinds of information bits from the available data and position and format it freely on a background pic which he can upload himself.
+Basically AniDB will offer all kinds of stats data and more via XML, much more than is currently on offer. The sig server would transparently get it's data from AniDB and the user will be able to pick all kinds of information bits from the available data and position and format it freely on a background pic which he can upload himself.
-Of course many users wouldn't need this degree of flexibility, so there would need to be some common premade default selections for style/info combinations which are most commonly requested. Furthermore background images could be shared between users.
+Of course many users wouldn't need this degree of flexibility, so there would need to be some common pre-made default selections for style/info combinations which are most commonly requested. Furthermore background images could be shared between users.
 ... if a users feels like having a total mess of a sig pic where every single character is done in a different font type, colour and size... why not let him do it? ...
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 ** Just to be clear - You will NOT have access to the AniDB database via SQL. As such you're free to come up with your own database schema for the information you need to store. All AniDB data you need will be available as XML via HTTP GET requests.
 ** The SigServer will require a separate signup and will not make use of the AniDB user account data.
-* Currently the server only runs PHP4 [http://sig.anidb.info/phptest.php Php Info], but PHP5 could be installed.
+* Currently the server only runs PHP4 [http://sig.anidb.info/phptest.php PHP Info], but PHP5 could be installed.
 ==Data Retrieval==
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 Here are some examples.
-CAUTION! - Don't access these urls more than once or twice a day or you will get yourself an automatic 24h ban!
+CAUTION! - Don't access these URLs more than once or twice a day or you will get yourself an automatic 24h ban!
 * [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=userlatest&uid=32&list=file http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=userlatest&uid=32&list=file]
-:* latest files added to mylist
+:* latest files added to MyList
 * [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=userlatest&uid=32&list=anime http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=userlatest&uid=32&list=anime]
-:* latest animes for which files were added to mylist (each anime is listed only once).
+:* latest anime for which files were added to MyList (each anime is listed only once).
 * [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=userlatest&uid=32&list=watched http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=userlatest&uid=32&list=watched]
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 * [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=animestat&aid=1&uid=32 http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=animestat&aid=1&uid=32]
-:* statistics for an anime, together with user mylist info
+:* statistics for an anime, together with user MyList info
 * [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=animestat&aid=1&uid=32&gid=41 http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=animestat&aid=1&uid=32&gid=41]
-:* statistics for an anime, together with user mylist and group info
+:* statistics for an anime, together with user MyList and group info
 * [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=anidbstat http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=anidbstat]
-:* global anidb statistics
+:* global AniDB statistics
 * [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=anidblatest&list=file http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=anidblatest&list=file]
-:* latest files added to anidb
+:* latest files added to AniDB
 * [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=anidblatest&list=anime http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=anidblatest&list=anime]
-:* latest animes for which files were added to anidb (each anime is listed only once).
+:* latest animes for which files were added to AniDB (each anime is listed only once).
 * [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=anidblatest&list=review http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=anidblatest&list=review]
-:* latest reviews added to anidb
+:* latest reviews added to AniDB
 * [http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=anidblatest&list=recs http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=xmlsig&t=anidblatest&list=recs]
-:* latest recommendations added to anidb
+:* latest recommendations added to AniDB
-* ... lot's more to be added uppon request
+* ... lot's more to be added on request
-The mylist export documentation may be helpful in understanding the meaning of the different fields in the XML replies: [[Mylist_export_template_guidelines]]
+The MyList export documentation may be helpful in understanding the meaning of the different fields in the XML replies: [[Mylist_export_template_guidelines]]
 === Feature Requests ===