Special:Badtitle/NS90:Forum:Wiki Talk/Technical Question(s) and a suggestion/reply

First off, glad you prefer us over The Other Tropes Wiki.

Second, as for the templates, they are included, but you may not be getting them all via mwdumper (I usually rebuild a database with the XML file via the PHP importdump command, which is slower but somewhat more reliable).

If you prefer, I can see about dumping an XML of just the templates only and leaving you a link to my public OneDrive account so you can download that, let me know if that would be helpful.

As for the character pages suggestion, we inherited our uneven quality from our PmWiki counterpart, and it was organized in such a haphazard manner, partially due to their layout for pages (and PmWiki's inherent limitations regarding templates), and partially due to troping wiki culture being slanted towards informality and allowing the tropers to set the pace of fleshing out pages (of course, this leads to the more popular stuff getting more care and attention like Bleach). Me personally, I'm not a fan of devoting a single page to each character (unless there is so much information about one character it would be required, but I could be wrong, and I'd like to hear everyone else's take on the matter.

As for requiring a bare minimum of info for pages, that sounds a little Wikipediaish, and troping wikis prefer to be less restrictive, but if the long term result is higher quality information, I'm open to reconsidering that stance.

Finally, I'm a MediaWiki nerd myself, nice to know I'm not the only one who messes with web stacks (I have a WAMP and LAMP stack, the first on desktop, the second on a laptop), so if you want to discuss that further or ask me questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page.

P.S. - Glad to see you've taken advantage of our liberal redistribution of our content, which as the guy responsible for insisting on that for ATT in the first place (as TV Tropes decided to punish people for attempting to do so under proper Creative Commons conditions by illegally changing their terms), I endorse heavily and hope to support your use of our content for your statistical analysis project, let me know if there is any further way I can assist you with that if need be.