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[edit] Credit to the Artist

Someone made that picture, thats an example for shipainter, and yet I see no credit. This should be fixed, or the picture should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.240.164.177 (talk) 05:08, 6 April 2008 (UTC)


[edit] re:What links should be added?

I thought we agreed not to add personal oekakis into the links section. I think there should only be one link per language board. If Oekaki Central is already up as an English language board, then E-Kaki shouldn't be up as an english board too. There are other oekakis like E-Kaki that are heavily modified as well. Places such as ochiba.net, yueying.net, or oevista.org. I think E-Kaki should be removed from the list if OekakiCentral is going to stay (or vice versa). It isn't very fair to other oekakis to include both.

[edit] re:re:What links should be added?

Agreed. Thank you for the speedy reply. Geminye 03:06, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] re:What links should be added?

I would suggest none of those. In fact, I have taken the liberty to remove the Significant Oekaki Communities section from the article since the somewhat-important ones have been mentioned in the article, and the rest have no true proof of significance (please provide a reference if you can prove otherwise). It may be significant to an individual, but to the world--to an encyclopedia, what have they really done? Individually, they have had no impact like Something-Awful forums, or 4chan, or even Wikipedia has on culture.
Those are nice boards, but remember, Wikipedia is not a link list! We should really follow the example of other articles, such as Internet_forum-- note how there are no links to various forums online? There really isn't even a mention of the "software" used unless you go to Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software.
Concerning oekaki BBS there is no reason to create a Comparison_of_Oekaki_BBS_software since there's really only three public distributions-- Dormando's, Waccoon's, and RanmaGuy's. Every other board online uses those, a modified version of those, or a closed source, proprietary board of their own design. In terms of applets, only 6 come to mind, of which only 4 are public, so there's no reason to list and compare those either. If you want to post to a wiki-style list of oekaki software, check out the wiki at hokuten.net, which contains primarily Oekaki articles.
potato 04:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What links should be added?

What links do you think should be added to the oekaki article? I think it should only be oekaki boards that have something significant about them. Not ones that have nothing new or interesting about it. People have been adding links right and left and I think we should require the links to be accepted before they are added.

[edit] 10 eastern

what about it?

--it's kind of like 9 central. 68.43.151.226 (talk) 03:28, 26 March 2008 (UTC) (Mgaert)

[edit] Oekaki in Flash?

Is there an Oekaki application in Flash? I've googled around a bit but found none - a bit surprising since most of the applety stuff that used to be done in Java seems to be done in Flash these days.--Eloquence*

  • Closest thing I've ever found was Blograffiti but that doesn't have comments.
  • iScribble.net is a flash based oekaki.
  • [1] does Scratchpad count?
I haven't seen any Flash oekaki applications. Of those three examples, I think iScribble bears the most resemblance to oekaki, but may be closer related to Paint chat. The other two lack the features typically used to create professional-looking art. They seem more "programming demo"-esque.
On a related note, is there a solid definition for "oekaki"? I think for a program to be branded an oekaki applet/application, it has to (1) be web-based, (2) be integrable into a message board system, and (3) have a breadth of features similar to those found in professional software. Also, possibly (4) be used by one artist at a time. There seems to be a distinction between oekaki and paintchat, but iScribble incorporates qualities from the two. - Myrith 16:37, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Oekaki Scripts

I think there should be a section on various oekaki scripts. I removed one out of place reference to a script in the Oekaki Applets section because it is not an applet, but merely a script. -Nobuyuki 02:10, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Meaning of Oekaki

"e" (絵) in Japanese means drawing, sketch or doodle "kaki" (描く) means to draw "o" is an honorific "oekaki" (お絵描き) is one who draws drawings, i.e. an artist

"Oekaki" is not "artist" (I don't know where you looked this up but I'm Japanese). An Ekaki-san is an artist. But you would never say Oekaki-san to make it sound polite. Also rumors about Oekaki meaning online-artist is wrong. Oekaki is somewhat child language and could be used in the context of "Oekaki shimasho" - "let's draw!", or better, "let's make a drawing"! It's also not a verb. Oekaki is the act of drawing. It's a noun.

[edit] Oekakai Board

The article gives a japanese site for starting an Oekaki Board. Are there any other sites that do this, because I don't speak japanese. Or even just instructions on how to get one from that one. My friend and I wanted to start one.

Wacintaki is a popular English oekaki script. It's based on Oekaki Poteto, which was probably the most widely used English script before it became outdated. The NineChime site has manuals and a forum for installation help. - Myrith 16:53, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Groupboard

I've added a link to Groupboard, as it has a larger community and higher pagerank than any of the existing links, and it appears to be relevant to this article.

[edit] 4chan /i/

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Why are we saying that oekaki is created/displayed on BBSs? BBSs (as the linked-to article clearly explains) are a kind of communal text-based computer network. From the sound of it, "BBS" is a term often used by oekaki artists but shouldn't we use more employ a more technically correct term? Maybe say the art is posted to a message board, or a forum? --Logomachist 23:42, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

What's that have to do with 4chan? 68.43.151.226 (talk) 03:29, 26 March 2008 (UTC) (Mgaert, who's too lazy to sign in)