Quote:Page organization. Since the new software supports proper hierarchical namespaces, I've reorganized the content go from Characters/WorkName to "Work Type/Work Name/Characters". There's a lot of magic going into finding the right work namespace, but at the very least links will update even if it get moved into the wrong namespace.
Nice. Having namespaces for work types was a good start, but if character pages and stuff are just going to collide anyway there's still problems.
(Mind you, there's still some situations that I don't think are handled very well. Take, for instance, the page for Ar tonelico, which doesn't seem to be sure if it's for the series as a whole, or just the first game. Long-runners where some individual parts have trope pages and some don't, and multimedia franchises also don't seem to be as well handled as they could be.)
I'm not exactly thrilled by the idea of changing the link syntax, but your argument for doing so is pretty good. On the other hand, making the new spoiler syntax the same as one of the old link syntaxes strikes me as a bit *too* much of a "Screw you, kemo sabe" to anyone who has or is going to edit on both wikis.
I kind of feel like deleting pages should require a higher trust level, since a spuriously deleted page is less obviously vandalized than a blanked one.
"AllTheTropes" sounds good to me too. It has a feeling of inclusiveness.
I'm a bit wary of changing around trope names, because that seems to be where a lot of the "Stop Having Fun" on TVT started. I just can't think of a good way to have two different names for something. Having both sitting on every page is just cumbersome. If you have one as the page, and a redirect for the other name, then you're still left with figuring out which is going to be on most of the pages. The only approach I can think of that would even come close to pleasing both sides is having a user-configuration switch to show either one set of names or the other, but I'm not sure that's even remotely feasible.
On a different issue, I still kind of think a forum is a good thing to have. I find talk pages to be one of the worst methods around to have something like an ongoing discussion. A forum just seems like it would work better for handling certain things. And I think a lot of the problems with TVT's forums wouldn't be there if you just got rid of the forum games and maybe the RPs.
-Morgan.