Quote:Bob SchroeckMm. Found entirely by accident a page that we should either remove or flag as historical or something, because it's basically about "people who've mentioned us", where "us"="TVT": http://allthetropes.orain.org/wiki/One ... s_Trollers
Searching, btw, is incredibly slow; is it safe to assume this will be optimized somehow when the entire wiki is in place?
Section hiding doesn't work for me; clicking the "[hide]" link just takes me to the top of the page.
Well, we do plan to mark a lot of pages historical, that being one of them.
As for searching, part of the problem is that Orain only recently fixed their servers (they had a caching issue) for better performance. The other half is that, by default, MediaWiki's stock engine relies on it's internal searching via the MediaWiki API, which can be really slow on large data sets like ours. I could look into getting a few search extensions that should improve things. Even TV Tropes relies on Google Search as a backend for searching, and since we don't currently have one, I'll look into getting that fixed.
As for SectionHide, the caching issue is partially responsible for the problems you may be facing. The other half is that, due to way the sections work in MW, the page acts as if you clicked on one of the links in the table of contents. There isn't a much better alternative ATM, though if you were trying the feature before the caching issue, I recommend purging your cache and flushing any cookies, then trying the site again.
Further, TV Tropes uses a template based folderization system, and since there isn't a really reliable way to do that in MW (so far) that will auto collapse entire sections (on a large scale, at any rate), Section Hide is the best (and currently, most compatible and reliable) analogue to how TV Tropes does things.