Sorry if I've been a bit blunt, but I'm trying to keep 10 balls in the air right now.
So right now the very tip-top of the category tree is at Category:Top Index. In it you can see the same split between Category:Trope and Category:Tropes -- the singular form is the flat list, while the plural form is a container category. The same split appears with Category:Media and Category:Work. So what we have right now is this sort of hierarchy:
Container categories ? Mixed categories (with subcats and pages) ? Standard categories ? Normal wikipages ? Normal wikipage with associated category ? Categories pretending to be normal wikipages ? Tropes with subpages pretending to be categoriesFlat categories from templates ({{creator}})Page title based categories (work or trope name)Functionally unclassified categories that are hidden from us because they're on Category:Index Index.
So four of these are problems. The tropes pretending to be categories can be moved back into main, with {{subpages}} added on that trope's page, easy peasy (and {{IndexTrope}} transformed back into {{trope}} if necessary). The unclassified categories need to be identified. Honestly I'd do it by adding Index Index on {{main}}, botting to find pages that really look like they want {{main}} on them, and stripping Index Index from all other pages (unless it's a normal link). Special:AllPages is a thing so we should maybe let IndexIndex be useful rather than a mishmash of everything.
The other two are harder and require manual intervention. "Normal wikipage with associated category" is normally a supertrope that has examples, but also subtropes. I don't know exactly what to do here, but maybe DPL can help by generating a list of members of a category for a wiki page. "Categories pretending to be normal wikipages" come from the fact that on TVT you could wrap anything in index tags and it would be a category. A lot of these need to moved to the Category namespace, but they have issues like:
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So right now the very tip-top of the category tree is at Category:Top Index. In it you can see the same split between Category:Trope and Category:Tropes -- the singular form is the flat list, while the plural form is a container category. The same split appears with Category:Media and Category:Work. So what we have right now is this sort of hierarchy:
Container categories ? Mixed categories (with subcats and pages) ? Standard categories ? Normal wikipages ? Normal wikipage with associated category ? Categories pretending to be normal wikipages ? Tropes with subpages pretending to be categoriesFlat categories from templates ({{creator}})Page title based categories (work or trope name)Functionally unclassified categories that are hidden from us because they're on Category:Index Index.
So four of these are problems. The tropes pretending to be categories can be moved back into main, with {{subpages}} added on that trope's page, easy peasy (and {{IndexTrope}} transformed back into {{trope}} if necessary). The unclassified categories need to be identified. Honestly I'd do it by adding Index Index on {{main}}, botting to find pages that really look like they want {{main}} on them, and stripping Index Index from all other pages (unless it's a normal link). Special:AllPages is a thing so we should maybe let IndexIndex be useful rather than a mishmash of everything.
The other two are harder and require manual intervention. "Normal wikipage with associated category" is normally a supertrope that has examples, but also subtropes. I don't know exactly what to do here, but maybe DPL can help by generating a list of members of a category for a wiki page. "Categories pretending to be normal wikipages" come from the fact that on TVT you could wrap anything in index tags and it would be a category. A lot of these need to moved to the Category namespace, but they have issues like:
- Laconic descriptions that need to be created on the trope, not the category
- Groupings that could maybe become subcategories
- Terrible names like "You Would Not Want to Live In Dex"
- Examples here for some reason, either movable or deleteable
- Mostly boring names so you can actually find tropes or works by category
- Categorize most things in a tree
- Don't force things to become a container category if it's not natural
- Leave the flat categories for purposes like botting.
- Finish my custom extension that displays laconic text on category pages next to the page name (I had a computer die, so minor setback on this)
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