All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part II

[GethN7]

Fantastic! Now what would be nice is if we could somehow extract all the existing reviews and port them into the new system...

As for the new page creation, can we add the {{reflist}} template to all the skeleton pages, and {{tropelist}}/{{examples}} to works/tropes? Hm. And maybe pre-stub works, tropes and creators? (Yes, I know, I can probably figure out how to do that myself. It's just that I've found another "master list" page which points me at things that need fixing in quantity...)

 

 

As for extracting all the old reviews, I'm afraid that would be next to impossible at present.

Unlike the rest of the wiki text page sources, which was stored in easily accessible flat files easily read off the server by a page scraper, the review system used by TV Tropes relied on a custom PmWiki extension in a completely different storage format than what is used by the rest of TV Tropes.

The means to port those does not exist at this point and given how it was done, probably more trouble than it's worth to attempt.

As for the new page creation system, it's partially broken until a patch I submitted gets sent through Orain's GitHub, so I'll reenable the old way of doing so until that's done.

However, I do have some good news. They recently installed CirrusSearch, a new search backend that should make search far more efficient.

As for the template changes, I'll get around to adding those, thanks for letting me know

The error messages and Special page issues we are already aware of and have sent the Orain staff a bug report on.

And in the short term, is a move revert in any way different from a move with "revert" added to its comment?

Not really.