All The Tropes:Things that need fixing
This is a massive list of things that need fixed to make the site fully functional.
Needs manual intervention
Things that will always need done:
- Category:Pages Needing Wicks
- Category:Works Needing Tropes
- Category:Tropes Needing Examples (which in egregious cases should be moved back to the Trope Workshop)
- List of Works That Need Summary -- write a new page
- Stuff in Category:Stubs
- Stuff in All The Tropes:Pages needing standard headers. Once we've finished the big job of cleaning up the backlog that's accumulated since the TVT fork, this will go to "needs to be checked every few weeks" to catch new pages that weren't created with templates.
- It looks like the move from UK to US created a few thousand false positives on that list. And, of course, doing a bot run will just make things worse if we still have the same issues with bot runs. Le sigh.
- Wanted Templates needs to be checked every few weeks to identify and correct miscoded links and other typos that end up looking like templates to the Wiki engine.
- Pages linking to disambiguation pages needs to be cleaned up. (As of July 1, 2021, User:Robkelk gave up trying to find out how many of these links there are after reaching 12,000.)
Other:
- Move as many index pages to their Category equivalents and provide redirects on the main namespace pages. Largely a manual job, though some pages in indexes are untagged and will need bot intervention. See Category:Pages that should be categories for the list of known index pages that should be categories.
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert and Command and Conquer Red Alert Series are near-clones of each other; they need to be manually merged as there are some differences in trope entries, and then one needs to be set as a redirect to the other.
- At some point a global search/replace on "[[Sci-Fi Channel]]" resulted in over 250 pages with the definite article retained, producing "the [[SyFy]]" instead. These need to be cleaned up to just "[[Syfy]]". (The name isn't CamelCase.)
- "SyFy" to "Syfy" is a bot job, but "the Syfy" to "Syfy" isn't. It might mess up "the Syfy [noun]" constructions along the lines
I was watching the [[Syfy]] movie ''[[Sharktopus]]'' and....
- "SyFy" to "Syfy" is a bot job, but "the Syfy" to "Syfy" isn't. It might mess up "the Syfy [noun]" constructions along the lines
- The titles on the redlinks on List of Works That Need Summary/Live-Action TV (and possibly all of the other List of Works That Need Summary pages) need to have their capitalization and punctuation confirmed.
- Some older lists of characters need character descriptions for some or all of their entries. See Category:Characters needing descriptions for the lists that we've identified as needing this attention.
- All The Tropes:Administrivia needs cleanup. Anything not applicable to ATT in any way that can not be ported to our existing rules needs an axing. Each link needs to be identified as "TVT control-freakery to be removed from the list", "merely a good idea", "guideline", "policy", or "policy that users can be tempbanned for if they break it".
- Find and/or replace missing images. We have re-purposed Category:Broken image markup to list broken images as we discover them.
- "Things To Do" subpage from now-deleted "anime portal"
- Someone needs to reconcile the last few pages in Category:Sandbox with their parents.
- Go through the pages that use {{noreallife}} and remove any TVTropes control-freakery that we inherited.
Possible bot jobs, possible manual
NOTE: Bot jobs need to be proposed and approved in All The Tropes:Constant Bot Jobs or All The Tropes:As Needed Bot Jobs before being executed.
- Redlinks which are caused by simple capitalization issues need to be found and corrected.
- Special:WantedPages, Special:WantedFiles, and Special:WantedTemplates list most if not all of the redlinks on the wiki between them.
- TVT uses the syntax [numlist:25] to start a list at a number other than 1. Mediawiki requires that the user do this using HTML tags and does not provide a way to use the # syntax for it. Numbered lists are converted over using the # syntax and are therefore extremely difficult to manually edit to start the numbering at values other than 1 (since the user would have to manually convert the # into HTML tags). This is particularly necessary for pages like Console RPG Cliches 25 to 48. Also, Console RPG Cliches 73 to 96 contains an embedded bulleted list which messes up the numbering.
- Also, hierarchy is incompatible between numbered ("#") and bulleted ("*") lists. E.g. an attempt to use "**" sub-list "under" a number will break the numbered list, so the next "#" will restart the count.
- Right, that's just markup failure. Those lists need to be converted to begin with "#*" instead. Why? Because mediawiki *sigh*. ROBKELK: This is perfectly logical markup. The first-level list continues, so the first level markup continues to be the same until the list ends; the inset list is a new list, so the second level list is a new markup; and so on for third-level and beyond
- Vorticity tried using CSS as a fix, however, this does not provide proper indentations because the indentations should account for the size of the number--99. and 100. should line up at the periods. Furthermore, this doesn't work well when there is an embedded bulleted list, and is awkward at best even if not as awkward as changing all the # to HTML.
- Would it be possible to write a template that lets the user set what number the next # starts at? Also, we will need a bot (or a program which analyzes the 2012 TVT database) to determine which pages originally had a numlist in them so we have a full list of which pages need to be fixed. The Evil Overlord List and some other pages need it too.
- Also, hierarchy is incompatible between numbered ("#") and bulleted ("*") lists. E.g. an attempt to use "**" sub-list "under" a number will break the numbered list, so the next "#" will restart the count.
- Lists of quotes that were copied directly from Wikiquote need to be put into our quote markup. See Category:Wikiquote quotes for the list of what we've identified.
Definite bot jobs
NOTE: Bot jobs need to be proposed and approved in All The Tropes:Constant Bot Jobs or All The Tropes:As Needed Bot Jobs before being executed.
- Cleanup of some remaining category pages. Definite need of manual intervention as well.
- Delink users that we don't have.
- Find all broken links to off-site images/media.
- Once we have this list they can be fixed manually, either by removal, hosting locally, or redirecting to whatever new location they live at.
- See Category:Pages with Broken Links for the list of all broken links that we've identified.
- Once we have this list they can be fixed manually, either by removal, hosting locally, or redirecting to whatever new location they live at.
Software installs
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Ideas
- Infoboxes, to go along with {{infobox book}} and {{infobox episode}}
- infobox trope
- others
Wiki bugs?
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