@vorticity
Glad you know how to write your own code. My skills in that area are so laughable it's sad.
Also, as for the Wikia, I took a closer look at them, and honestly, while they do have advantage of being able to preview your edits, they lack most of the coding that made pages easy to navigate on TV Tropes, and I found out they already have a similar project in the pipeline to siphon off the index pages and reconstitute their own version of TV Tropes.
In short, don't worry about Wikia getting a piece of the pie, they just decided to procure their own pie mix and make a new one themselves.
Anyhoo, I've already saved quite a bit of what has already been burnt off the TV Tropes servers long before any of us had this discussion (in the form of HTML source code, most of which I reconstructed by hand to resemble their former selves), which I'd be happy to donate to your archive if you'd like.
As for what you're NOT copying, that's fine. The forums wouldn't really be applicable to a new site, edit histories would be pointless, YKTTW would be the same, as would discussion pages. As for Tropers Tales and Fetish Fuel, they'd be nice, but I wouldn't consider their absence to be a deal breaker.
Glad you know how to write your own code. My skills in that area are so laughable it's sad.
Also, as for the Wikia, I took a closer look at them, and honestly, while they do have advantage of being able to preview your edits, they lack most of the coding that made pages easy to navigate on TV Tropes, and I found out they already have a similar project in the pipeline to siphon off the index pages and reconstitute their own version of TV Tropes.
In short, don't worry about Wikia getting a piece of the pie, they just decided to procure their own pie mix and make a new one themselves.
Anyhoo, I've already saved quite a bit of what has already been burnt off the TV Tropes servers long before any of us had this discussion (in the form of HTML source code, most of which I reconstructed by hand to resemble their former selves), which I'd be happy to donate to your archive if you'd like.
As for what you're NOT copying, that's fine. The forums wouldn't really be applicable to a new site, edit histories would be pointless, YKTTW would be the same, as would discussion pages. As for Tropers Tales and Fetish Fuel, they'd be nice, but I wouldn't consider their absence to be a deal breaker.