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This is a massive list of things that need fixed to make the site fully '''fun'''ctional.
 
 
== Needs manual intervention ==
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== 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.
* Find and fix broken image/caption markups
** "right"->"frame" for images otherwise properly marked up (mostly done)
** Extremely large images would be displayed small on TVT automatically. Here the markup needs to be changed to include "thumb". I don't know if there are still such images.
*** There are. I thumbnail them as I stumble over them. --[[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] ([[User talk:Looney Toons|talk]]) 14:44, 21 August 2014 (BST) In the six years since that post, I think we've gotten almost all of them. This no longer needs to be an action item, just a task to perform when one of the few remaining instances is found. -- 20:01, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
* 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.
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== Things that have already been fixed ==
=== Needs manual intervention ===
<s>Search and potentially restore:</s>
* <s>[[Forum:Lost (Censored?) Pages]]</s>
* <s>All The Tropes:Pages Needing Restoration</s>
 
Other:
* <s>Setup [[YKTTW]] namespace</s>
** <s>Trope Workshop still has problems. The "recent changes" and "list of articles sorted by last one to be edited" are redundant with each other, the latter doesn't show the date, and both of them are a click away in contrast with the alphabetical list which is more prominent and visible without a click but is less useful. Also, there's nothing which shows recently changed articles counting talk pages</s>
* <s>Other policies need revised fullwise (second level policies now, mostly).</s>
* <s>Things in Category:Checknamespace need to be returned their proper home, then detagged. PROTIP: Do "What Links Here".</s>
* <s>Random throwaway references to TVT that can be turned into ATT.</s>
* <s>Bogus templates which are actually mis- or un-parsed TVT links (see just about everything at the bottom end of [[Special:WantedTemplates|Wanted Templates]]).</s>
* <s>Continue identifying and renaming pages which should have punctuation in their names.</s> Basically completed, except for a few remaining pages.
* <s>Things in [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Home_Page]] (which includes a redirect from [[TV Tropes]]) need to be checked to see if they refer to TVT, and if so, fix that. Fixed links should point to [[TV Tropes]] or [[Main Page]]</s>
* <s>Evaluate [[Tutorial Draft]] and see if there's anything there that we can use.</s>
* <s>The pages under the [[Names to Run Away From]] namespace need to be moved to [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]; that page needs to point to them.</s>
* <s>Duplicate files in [[Special:ListDuplicatedFiles]] need to be deleted and pages relinked. There are only 42, should be fast.</s>
* <s>Is it possible to modify tropelist, tropenamer, examples, etc. so that they use the page's DISPLAYTITLE instead of the actual page name?</s> Yes, it appears so. It also appears to be more work than it's worth.
* <s>Similarly, [[Command & Conquer: Tiberium]] and Command and Conquer Tiberian Series are almost identical copies of each other.</s>
* <s>[[Token Loli]] should be renamed back to [[Token Loli]], however, we had already restored a Token Loli page and the two may need to be merged manually.</s>
** <s>Should it really? -V</s>
*** <s>What needs to be done is arguable, but we need to do <i>something</i>. I would argue that Token Loli, while not completely correct, is at least a term actually used by people to mean something like what the trope refers to, while "Mini-Moe" is something someone just made up for TVT because they weren't allowed to say "Loli".</s>
*** <s>Other than [https://mini-moes-burgers-fries-and-funnel-cakes.business.site/ an independent burger place] in [[Toronto]] and [https://minimoestreeservice.com/ a tree service] in Florida (and I get the distinct impression that those two are "Moe", not "Moé"), the only pages found in a DuckDuckGo search for "Mini Moe" are TV Tropes and us. So, yeah, something needs to be done here.</s>
 
=== Possible bot jobs, possible manual ===
* <s>Everything on Category:Oldtable needs updated to mediawiki tables, then detagged</s>
* <s>Everything on [[:Category:Pages with comment tags]] needs to have:</s>
** <s>TVT Control Freakery removed</s>
** <s>Links fixed (an potentially made interwiki in the case of wikipedia), and lines reparsed.</s> (there might be some out there still, but very few if any).
** <s>About a dozen or two pages have YouTube or other links in comments, excised from the quote markup immediately before them. This was [[User:Looney Toons|my]] solution to the template errors they caused, before learning the proper way to fix it. These need to be undone and properly corrected.</s>
* <s>Remaining hottip markups need to be located and changed to refs.</s>
** <s>[[:Category:Hottip markup]] (decimated by bot to a final 49 pages, needs to be manually fixed from here on).</s>
* <s>Remove TVT [https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?title=Special:LinkSearch&limit=5000&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2Ftvtropes.org%2F forum links, et al]</s>
* <s>Mis-converted spoiler markups in the form of "<nowiki>[[</nowiki>spoiler:"; they often (usually?) lack closing brackets.
** These are pretty much entirely on pages that had stray return characters -- i.e. stuff GethN7 had sent me (Vorticity) from the internet archive for being cut on TVT. If so, I might be able to assemble a list of these pages.</s>
* <s>Tilde-markup page links (for example, [[Don't Explain The Joke]]), left over from TVT's second try at punctuated titles.</s> Fixed mostly, stopped when I realize that it was making some pages worse.
* <s>Examples templates with the parameter "Examples:" really should have those parameters removed.</s> Believed more or less complete as of November 2015 by WonderBot. I've run into exactly one such examples template since then. -- LT
* <s>Find and fix former Wikia pages which have <nowiki>{{WS}}</nowiki> markups instead of <nowiki>{{work}}</nowiki>.</s>
* <s>Find and remove all <nowiki>===Notes===</nowiki> headers left over from before the current version of <nowiki>{{reflist}}</nowiki>.</s> Believed complete as of April 2020; at least it's been years since I remember seeing an instance of this -- LT
* <s>[[Impossible Thief]] under Film has a Dungeons and Dragons example with an extra blank line between each line past the first four. Looking at history shows that it used to have an extra line between ''every'' line. Some possibilities include a bot job gone wrong, and a combination of updating the quote template and not bot-updating the quote correctly. I can of course fix this by taking out the extra <nowiki><br /></nowiki>, but if this is an example of a general problem, fixing just this one instance won't really fix it.
** [[Improbable Species Compatibility]] has one under Film.</s>
* Find and fix broken image/caption markups
** <s>Merging images with captions caught in a "[[caption-width-right:" markup</s>
** <s>Images markups that have their final "]" on the line after everything else</s>
*** <s>[[:Category:Broken image markup]]</s>
** <s>Extremely large images would be displayed small on TVT automatically. Here the markup needs to be changed to include "thumb". I don't know if there are still such images.
*** There are. I thumbnail them as I stumble over them. --[[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] ([[User talk:Looney Toons|talk]]) 14:44, 21 August 2014 (BST)</s> In the six years since that post, I think we've gotten almost all of them. This no longer needs to be an action item, just a task to perform when one of the few remaining instances is found. -- 20:01, 16 November 2020 (UTC)
 
=== Definite bot jobs ===
* <s>Rename unambiguous (Mediatype) labels from work names.</s>
* <s>Figure out why so many images are going unused on the wiki.</s>
* <s>I recently fixed an image link on [[SHIELD]] which was converted over improperly. Perhaps some of these unused images really have links that are improperly converted in this way. [[User:Arromdee|Ken Arromdee]] ([[User talk:Arromdee|talk]]) 03:30, 18 October 2014 (BST)</s>
* <s>See what images we have that are also present on Wikimedia Commons. Delete those files and use Instant Commons links instead.
** [[mediawikiwiki:API:Allimages|API:Allimages]] provides a way to search and retrieve via SHA-1 hash.</s>
* <s>If we're going to keep the [[All the Tropes Superhero Team]], we should convert all the category tags for "TV Tropes Superhero Team" to ''our'' page's name.</s>
 
=== Software installs ===
* <s>We can has MultiBoilerplate installed in liek ever?</s>
* <s>Some sort of web-based IRC client.</s>
* <s>Now we can has InputBox installed in liek ever?</s>
 
=== Ideas ===
* <s>Maybe a {{tl|haiku}} template?</s>
 
=== Wiki bugs? ===
* <s>Some second-level bullets, such as retrocognition on [[Psychic Powers]], do not display. They may display briefly when loading a page.</s>
** <s>It happens on all levels -- I've seen it everywhere (first-level example on this page: "Find and fix broken image/caption markups" under "Possible Bot Jobs"). I hadn't noticed that it was the same ones each time, though; I'd thought it was essentially random. --[[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] ([[User talk:Looney Toons|talk]]) 14:40, 21 August 2014 (BST)</s>
*** <s>Seems to have been fixed or fixed itself some time in the last week or two; my example above is no longer failing, and I haven't noticed the problem in a while. --[[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] ([[User talk:Looney Toons|talk]]) 15:27, 22 September 2014 (BST)</s>
**** <s>There is still one in [[Improbable Species Compatibility]] under Western Animation.</s>
***** <s>Agreed, they're still showing up, but they're much, ''much'' rarer now. -- [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] ([[User talk:Looney Toons|talk]]) 20:13, 16 October 2014 (BST)</s>
****** <s>Thinking about this behavior, I realize I haven't seen it in ''years''. Can we perhaps mark this as taken care of? -- [[User:Looney Toons|Looney Toons]] ([[User talk:Looney Toons|talk]]) 21:12, 15 March 2022 (UTC)</s>
 
 
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