All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XX

[GethN7]

In that case, somebody needs to clean up Index Index.

It's on the list of things we need to do for sure.

One thing I also want to do is take all the various pages of "unsorted" examples for what could go on new or exist work/trope/creator subpages and trim those down ideally to zero. Not only will we be able to eliminate some redundancy, we can also trim down our list of needed pages, and the more pages of non-cloned content (as some unsorted stuff is clones of stuff on existing subpages), the higher our SEO.

That's something that I've been wanting to do as well, but there are so many images that still need their licenses identified that I haven't had time to do much else. Thanks for being willing to take that part of the workload.

Anytime. 

Back on the bot policy, while I doubt it will ever be needed for the "constantly running" bots, given those will provide services we find indispensable (like InternetArchiveBot), should we include a "staff reserve the right to ask a bot cease for any reason" clause? Again, not sure we need to, but it's the only other possible thing that we might want to include for some unforeseen edge case.

Also, I was thinking, given bot jobs will not be THAT regular, we should have two pages: one listing constantly running bots, the services provided and by whom, and the other for "as needed" jobs with the same information, and started and finished date. While the MW logs will have timestamps, this will serve as a backup to those logs with all the information on the job done and when at our fingertips. I propose they be established in the All The Tropes namespace as main pages in said space, not talk pages, which each job's info separated by section headings. Further, in the event we need to archive any page, we can simply do so for the "as needed" pages, given it's likely to require it at some point in the future.

I further propose the basic layout for a bot job form (for as-needed bot jobs):

Username of bot owner:
Bot name:
Type of job: (formatting fixes, link replacement, and whatever else is included)
Technical information: (spaced between <code></code> to clearly mark it and to illustrate it is technical specific info, like the regular expressions used)
Start Time (does not have to be super exact, but should be accurate enough to match with log timestamps, listing time given for first bot edit made by the MW logs would be fine as well as the real world date)
Finish Time (same as above, just with final bot edit)
Staff who signed off on the bot job: (a bare minimum of a majority of Staff must concur on a bot job before it is given the green light, or, given our current number of staff, no less than two must approve before the job can begin at least)

We could even make a new boilerplate template for this if required.
Comments by bot owner and staff section would be at the bottom: (for discussing the bot job if changes are needed and any post-job notes)