All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XXI

[GethN7]

We appear to have almost nothing in the way of "panic" tropes. We should fix that.

Good idea.

Meanwhile, while combing through the extensions list for things that could be useful for better searches, Miraheze has this:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AdvancedSearch

It enables finer-grained searches, like specifying all pages in the categories that both in "Comedy Tropes" and "Smile Tropes", adding all subpages of a specific page to the search request and filtering out anything else, and other more refined search features. Claims to require CirrusSearch, but that is a "soft" dependency, it simply can use that as the search engine backend if it's available, but will default to the core search backend if it's not available, which Miraheze has defaulted it to. (the CirrusSearch extensions are buggy anyway even if it is enabled)

Note: This is stable and actively supported by the WMF, so its compatibility is very high.

All it simply does is add an optional "advanced search" to narrow down search options more, regular search can be used if you have no need of it.

You can see how it works here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?se...arch&go=Go

Note: Best used for very specific searches, overly broad searches will simply fail and report an error, but this would be useful for needing to find specific pages without needing wade through as much clutter. This would make our search, even without CirrusSearch as the backend, far more versatile than the TV Tropes version, which is dependent on Google and can be overly broad, while this would be far more specific and limited to our internal database.