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About This Wiki
All The Tropes is a community-edited wiki website dedicated to discussing Creators, Works, and Tropes -- the people, projects and patterns of creative writing in all kinds of entertainment: television, literature, movies, video games, and more.
And by all kinds of entertainment, we don't just mean English language content (especially just American English content), we want to cover and address all types of media from around the world and the tropes that media uses, as both tropes and the works that use them are universal.Tropes are tools of the trade for writers; They are devices and conventions that we the audience expect to see again and again. Whether tropes are cliche or just standard for the genre is largely a matter of writing quality and personal opinion. But tropes will always exist, as they often reflect life -- and we exist to document them, play with them, and generally have fun with them.This wiki is called All The Tropes because we want to accept discussion of patterns in all forms of media while keeping censorship to a minimum. We want to encourage creative thought, discuss new works, and welcome everyone to play around. This is not Wikipedia, this is a site for fans.
We hope to educate and entertain -- to be both informal and informative. And we hope that you'll join us.
So read, edit, have fun, and play nice! This wiki is an English specific wiki, and our content may reflect a strong American bias due to the fact we forked from TV Tropes, which had a strong bias in that regard. If you would like to help us make a foreign language version of ATT or help improve our international appeal, please contact the ATT administrators and we'll be happy to provide any resources you may need.
Differences From the Competition
TV Tropes does not allow certain articles and topics to be discussed, because of censorship policies ostensibly imposed by their advertisement sponsors. We are hosted on a service funded by donations, so we have no ads (and thus no chance of being redirected to a malware-injection site by a hostile ad) and no widespread censorship. We have a wide range of other benefits too: modern software, secure browsing, and administrators who listen to other opinions. For a fuller explanation of the schism, see Why We Forked TV Tropes. All The Tropes (Wikia) is a Wikia fork of All The Tropes, and are as censorship free as ourselves. Content from there can be imported here and vice-versa, under the terms of the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
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All The Tropes
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| Wiki Engine |
PmWiki (heavily modified) |
MediaWiki 1.41.0 (5498056)
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| Content Dumps |
Only via administrator approval |
Can be requested by anyone
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| Censorship |
Imposed via Google Ads and an administrator approved committee |
Only what is legally required
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| Advertising |
Upwards of 25% of each page is ads |
None
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| Ad Blocking |
Detects ad-blockers like uBlock Origin and prevents users from seeing wiki content until they disable them and any restrictions on JavaScript |
Unnecessary, no ads
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| Content License |
CC-BY-NC-SA |
CC-BY-SA
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| Colored Text |
Globally disabled |
Available via template or CSS styles
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| Strike-through Markup |
Globally disabled |
Available
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| WikiWords |
Most common form of linking |
Not available
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| Page Moves |
Manual copy-paste-redirect |
Move action (preserves history)
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| Page History |
Changes only, natterfy button |
Changes between multiple revisions, view old versions, undo edit
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| Unicode Support |
Character escapes only |
Available everywhere
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| HTTPS browsing |
Yes |
Yes
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| Secure Passwords |
No (plaintext, no encryption) |
Yes (cryptographic database hash)
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| Interwiki Support |
None |
Yes, interwiki linking is supported
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Featured Article
So You Want To/Avoid Unfortunate Implications
Whether you're creating something that may or may not touch on known issues, or you're wanting to avoid creating new tropes with their own Unfortunate Implications, you may find it useful to have a simple guide to handling potentially loaded tropes and situations with care.
This guide is intended only as a simplistic overview not applicable to each and every situation (and sometimes ignoring its advice may be a good idea), and some of you may know far more than it illustrates. Its purpose is to help the average writer without much experience in social justice activism (except maybe within his/her/their own group) avoid creating unintended offense and/or badly creating intended offense.
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