All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVII

[GethN7]

Okay, sometime this weekend I'll dig into the archive, see what format things are in, and maybe start designing the "review" template.

Sounds good, Bob.


In the meantime, I have just finished all known LQT cleanup, here is a post-mortem.


Before we used Flow for talk pages, we used LiquidThreads, and before that regular talk pages briefly. 


LQT did not convert everything well to Flow. Many pages were butchered beyond repair, some were greatly corrupted, and thanks to conversion issues in the LQT backups, all those records for LQT archives were corrupted.

This issue affected all pages using Flow or otherwise in Talk namespaces, so the following was done:

1. All LQT archives have been deleted.
2. All pages too corrupt to be saved deleted.
3. All pages blank save for LQT remnants deleted.
4. Some pages were created then deleted to flush ghost records that produced errors when viewing the page content and history.
5. Most pages that could be saved were edited only to remove the LQT remnants generally shoved into the description sidebar on Flow pages
6. Lots of template spam specific to the Flow conversion has been removed to improve page load times, some pages were loading slowly due to lingering database issues this was able to clear up.


There are still some possible remnants I missed, but at this point, I can say anything noticable to most tropers and readers should be gone.