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

First and foremost: Thanks for a great Wiki.

Where do I obtain the "templates" for ATT?

I've set-up a "home study" mediawiki appliance running on Virtual Box using the Turnkey Linux (debian) appliance ISO (it includes all of the appropriate components for mediawiki to run with a few extensions) and loaded ATT to the database using the mwdumper.jar utility from MediaWiki based on the DUMP file available at orain. After running ../maintenance/update.php, I noticed that numerous pages did not populate (I believe) because I don't have the template files which those pages require to populate which means I can't to certain searches because the pages cannot be populated from the database because the templates are not part of the media wiki distribution... and there does not appear to be a download page for them.

Now as to why I'm doing this [besides trying to keep my "(over the hill and far down the other side) 3l337 server admin skeelz" in tune and learning all about the innards of running a MediaWiki stack (which I don't know much about)]? In stumbling through the pages here and at "the Other Place" (which I no longer visit since I've found this place) I realized that there are "interesting materials" regarding stories and characters... Which brings to mind a number of questions: Why are some stories better than others? Why to we love some characters and not others? So I thought I'd build a copy of the database / pages then do some numerical analysis of these topics... such as "what character tropes appear most often together? which might that say about the genre in which the character appears?", "what tropes do most major 'successful' manga / anime characters possess?" or "How have character tropes evolved over time?" "what tropes to the most successful stories (in their respective genres) incorporate?" and "how has this changed over time?" (one might also ask is it possible to predict the "next big thing"?) Unfortunately while the tropes wiki has a lot of data and shared knowledge it still needs a little better "quantification" before those questions can be at least "statistically" answered... which leads me to the suggestion part of this post:

Based on looking at about 240 character pages over the last two weeks [mostly Anime / manga / game character pages but I don't expect pages in other genres to be significantly different] I've come to the conclusion that the "quality" of the Character Pages for various stories is very uneven. Some pages have just names, no tropes. Some have characters, groups (which are not characters) but are sometimes [not always used] to categorize the characters. Some have character tropes that go on-and-on [Bleach, anyone?]

Looking at the template page might explain the uneveness... there does not seem to be a minimal requirement for information to describe a character. So what I'd like to suggest is a "minimal amount of information" be presented if the page is going to be considered a character page: Name, story, role, tropes. I'd even go so far as to say having separate pages for each character with an appropriate index page for each "cast of characters" or group within the cast... [Separate pages make "big data" style statistical queries easier].

I'm not complaining about what you have I'm just pointing out it could be better.

Last but not least: thanks for any help you might be able to provide.