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Let me look some more. Actually, I want this extension: Multi-Category Search; it basically describes what I want above. User:GethN7, can we get this one? It would be nice to add searching based on tropes/works to that (i.e. WhatLinksHere), but it looks like a start.

Back on your post, that list of work categories (by media) is pretty damn good. We need an equally good list of work categories by genre, and works categories by place of origin. Or like you say, classes of creators. The problems you identify are dead on, but your proposed solution is really questionable. As is your sanity, User:QuestionableSanity. Still a lot of good ideas in there, though.

@GethN7 Hey, does Cirrus/ElasticSearch do this kind of stuff?
—Vorticity

As for a Trope Decimal System as a concept, interesting idea in theory but wouldn't really work in practice, at least with our current categorization schema. That sounds more like a Semantic MediaWiki kind of thing, and that would be a massive pain to work with at present and would require a massive amount of reorganization (and knowledge of how to use SMW) to be practical at present.

The MultiCategory Search extension looks promising and I can definitely look into that, just give me a day or so. It also looks more realistic from a new feature standpoint.

As for Cirrus/ElasticSearch, not exactly. It's a replacement for the Lucene search engine the WMF guys used to use but have decided to replace because it's a byzantine pain to set up and requires lots of third party crap to get running right. Granted, the same can be said of Cirrus/ElasticSearch to some extent, but it's far easier to set up, though the process is only slightly less byzantine.

However, the non techie answer to that question is no. It merely improves searches for content by using a simpler search engine, but doesn't add any new search features.