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Postby Iritscen » Sat Feb 01, 2025 4:45 pm

I'm but a humble newbie and have no idea about the history of the community, but I noticed that the Main Page of the wiki says that the Commentary Project is still ongoing, and that some content remains to be transferred over from the original site. Is this still accurate? Here's the current text (bold mine):

In these dark times, on an Internet where devoted Evangelion sites and fora are becoming increasingly sparse, EvaGeeks is intended to be an enduring sanctuary for the English-speaking fandom. In addition to an active forum and news page, we play host to an expanding collection of local content, much of it original, which you shall find below. EvaGeeks is, officially, the new incarnation of the Evangelion Commentary Project website. Although, years later, some content still remains to be transferred over...it looks like most of the process is finally complete.

The Eva Wiki currently has 53,675 pages and 641 articles, with a total of 39,749 images.

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Originally launched by Reichu and various others at AnimeNation years ago, only four episodes, the OP, and the ED were tackled before the project, rather sadly, went into limbo. In the time since, there have been many queries and concerns about the future of the commentary. Reichu is well known as a procrastinator of super-Sadamoto proportions, and no one else has stepped up to take her place as leader, ...until now! Episode 05 and Episode 06 were opened to comments and edited into the new commentary pages, and now Episode 07 is complete as well. We are also proud to announce that Episode 08 is nominally complete as of July 2021.

Due to the fact that none of us are getting any younger or have much free time left in our increasingly busy real lives, Ursus had a mind to bring things to a rather hurried close. It may not be the best end to the commentary project, but it's an end, and that's an improvement over leaving things in eternal limbo. Like Quiddity half-jokingly said, we'd be waiting until 2060 to get the commentary done at the rate at which we were going, and it's doubtful that many of us would even be alive by then with the reduced life expectancy of millenials in the post-recession era, so bringing things to an end in 2021 means beating the old projection by 39 years (yay, progress!). Episode 19 has been opened in its own thread and all the remaining episodes are open in a "General Commentary" thread. Please take a look and feel free to comment! Don't worry if it takes a while for the comments to get added, because those threads are going to stay open for a long while.


Maybe someone who knows more than me can update this? I'm guessing it can be shortened up quite a bit since the Commentary Project seems to have ended.

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Postby BernardoCairo » Mon Feb 03, 2025 8:55 am

As far as I know, the Commentary Project is over. Ursus closed it a couple of years ago I think. But that's his business, so maybe he will want to do more with it in the future. As of now, it's finished.
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Postby Iritscen » Mon Feb 03, 2025 10:36 am

Okay. It looks like Ursus isn't very active here these days so he may not see this. I'll ask him on the wiki, we've talked there already.

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Postby BernardoCairo » Wed Feb 05, 2025 10:05 am

Cool! But he might take a while to respond. He's very busy irl. Keep that in mind.
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