All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part VII

[GethN7]

Hi everyone! DW forum/allthetropes' admins should already know this, now you shall too:

First about us: We are some tropers (or ex-tropers, some of us got banned by Fast Eddie) who thought TV Tropes could need some serious improvements.
Like many tropers, we have IT jobs, and quite some experience in databases, web security, AJAX etc.

Second, our big plan: We thought many years ago (as early as in the Oughts) that TV Tropes would be so much better if it was based on a software where examples are fetched from a database. As in, if you go to a trope page, you get all examples from works, and vice versa on work pages. Without too much entry pimping if you want to add stuff.

Third: Then, in mid-2012 you provided the TV Tropes site rip (this was you, vorticity, right? Thanks to you, without we couldn't have started this), and from then on, things got rolling.

(Yeah, originally we had thought this could be done in a few months or so. We were a bit wrong about this.)

But now, we're really close to finishing this. And as proof that we hold what the new owners of TV Tropes only promise, we'll post screenshots of it. Just give us a bit more time.

First off, heck yeah, glad to hear about this!

And yeah, a semantic style database sounds like a great idea. I toyed with the possibility of going full Semantic MediaWiki at one point, but we decided not to, but if someone can pull off a similar model, sounds like a great idea.

And yeah, Vorticity/Labster was the guy who provided the site dump.

Look forward to the screenshots (go ahead and post it here or at the All The Tropes Wikia fork if you want).

Also, I want to make something clear: Not only do I like this, I give my blessing to your efforts, wish to provide any possible assistance, and would love to collaborate with you guys if possible/need be.