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We are '''[[All The Tropes:About|All The Tropes]]''', a wiki about all forms of media and entertainment -- and the tropes found therein. |
We are '''[[All The Tropes:About|All The Tropes]]''', a wiki about all forms of media and entertainment -- and the tropes found therein. |
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== Why we care about tropes == |
== Why we care about tropes == |
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So just as the very first wiki, the [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki? Portland Pattern Repository], sought to catalog the patterns in software development, we seek to catalog all of the patterns in media -- the patterns we call [[tropes]]. |
So just as the very first wiki, the [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki? Portland Pattern Repository], sought to catalog the patterns in software development, we seek to catalog all of the patterns in media -- the patterns we call [[tropes]]. |
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TV Tropes began a policy of censoring pages in early 2012, in response to pressure from Google AdSense. We felt that we could make a community that would be free from commercial influences, and more responsive to the concerns of the community. For the nitty-gritty, see [[All The Tropes:History|History]]. |
TV Tropes began a policy of censoring pages in early 2012, in response to pressure from Google AdSense. We felt that we could make a community that would be free from commercial influences, and more responsive to the concerns of the community. For the nitty-gritty, see [[All The Tropes:History|History]]. |
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Eventually, the idea will be to incorporate as a non-profit corporation, but for now, our revenue and needs are just too small. Until we grow into a larger community, the owners are Brent "Vorticity" Laabs and GethN7. |
Eventually, the idea will be to incorporate as a non-profit corporation, but for now, our revenue and needs are just too small. Until we grow into a larger community, the owners are Brent "Vorticity" Laabs and GethN7. |
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The owners of the servers that support this website are the folks at [[m:Main Page|Miraheze]], who put together their wiki farm to provide an ad-free, nonprofit alternative. This works well of our goals to get away from the commercialism that threatened TVT. |
The owners of the servers that support this website are the folks at [[m:Main Page|Miraheze]], who put together their wiki farm to provide an ad-free, nonprofit alternative. This works well of our goals to get away from the commercialism that threatened TVT. |
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== Nonprofit status == |
== Nonprofit status == |
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As explained above, we plan to incorporate as an educational non-profit corporation when the wiki gets bigger. No one actually makes any money off of the wiki, and we have no plans to turn it into an ad-ridden commercial venture. Our administrators have helped to create a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in the past for a wiki, and are more than willing to do it again. It just costs nearly $1000 to do so, and so we definitely need to have significant expenses to justify it. |
As explained above, we plan to incorporate as an educational non-profit corporation when the wiki gets bigger. No one actually makes any money off of the wiki, and we have no plans to turn it into an ad-ridden commercial venture. Our administrators have helped to create a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization in the past for a wiki, and are more than willing to do it again. It just costs nearly $1000 to do so, and so we definitely need to have significant expenses to justify it. |
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We don't need any for our own site now. However, Miraheze is a nonprofit hosting us, and they would be more than happy to accept [[m:donations|donations]] to keep the site running. |
We don't need any for our own site now. However, Miraheze is a nonprofit hosting us, and they would be more than happy to accept [[m:donations|donations]] to keep the site running. |
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