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.

Well, I got a little start on things.

There are 5900 individual reviews, each in its own file.  Each one has a "header" that looks like this:

Literature/GenerationKill 19th Apr 09 Troper/{{Alhazred}} whole series review 0
Top-notch military slice-of-life.

followed by the the text of the review, which can and often does have TV-namespaced WikiWorded links in it.

Complicating matters is that my idea for a template won't work right now, because we have the review pages set up as Flow discussion pages.

So I've started looking into Flow (now called "StructuredDiscussion") to see if I can somehow structure the reviews as SQL inserts that create flow topics on the relevant review pages.  This is literally in the first few hour of effort, so I have no idea if this is possible or practical.  But it is at least a direction.

Let me throw you a rope, Bob.


https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension...iscussions


According to this, we can de-Flow the entire namespace by asking our Miraheze overlords to do some backend stuff before we do anything else. As for the reviews, it would likely be much easier to ask Brent to mass import them like he did the other dump material (I'd like a copy too) as an XML file, which should save us a lot of hassle so all we need to do is clean up anything that looks weird afterward.