All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part VIII

[GethN7]

Aargh - the freebie wiki is giving "Backend fetch failed" errors.

And I was in the middle of a big project that I'm sure would go much faster if I had any idea how to write a bot. (I believe I've mentioned that I'm a good documenter, but as a programmer ... I'm a good documenter. What I'm doing right now, in edlin syntax, is "shttp://www.daz3dhttp://www.daz3dg" on over 500 pages - then I'll be checking other often-cited sites and finding out whether I can switch their links from http to https.)

EDIT: And within five seconds of me posting this, the errors went away.

RE-EDIT: I'm down to http://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/w ... LinkSearch (from 1137, but now I'm down to the ones-and-twos on a page). Time to call it a night.

RE-RE-EDIT: Once this string is done, I can do shttp://www.renderosity.com/http://www ... ity.com/g ... and http://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/w ... LinkSearch. I really need to figure out how to write a bot.

i might be entirely getting this wrong but couldn't you just do a general (http to http: per regex?

The freebie wiki doesn't appear to have that on its list of special pages.
http://poserdazfreebies.miraheze.org/w ... ecialPages

If that's a plugin that I need to request, what is it called?

I believe that would be MassEditRegex.

Also, we have a new user who took our uncensored stance a bit too literally and apparently revived a page TV Tropes deleted (Wall Bang Her), which is fine, but I'd feel better if it had a datestamp to the revision date so we know if it's kosher (July 2012 or earlier).

More concerningly, they started uploading hentai images of the trope in question to illustrate the page, and as far as I know, our policy is to keep pages images work safe, and if it's not in the rules in a clearly written down places, we need to fix that. (the images were deleted by me)

I left them a talk page message to address this for the time being, but other admins looking into this would be appreciated.