Happy Advent!
I suppose Advent isn't truly a celebratory time, despite all that happens in the malls and with the insistent happy Christmas music over the radio. Originally the liturgical season was more a time of contemplation, of the history of the past. And how that past foretells the promise of the future; a mix of historical and eschatological perspectives. And most of all, it's about waiting and expectation.
Many of the people who have posted in this thread, have waited a long time for a new wiki to come to fruition. And finally, we're almost there. A website is up, the large majority of the content kinks are worked out, and it's a perfectly serviceable timesink. I mean wiki. IRC is becoming an active place. Some things are in progress, like rewriting policy. And there's going to be cleanup of the import and TVT-specific pages for a long time to come.
But it still feels almost done to me. What I'm missing are all of the people. The people who watch the obscure films, who watch the latest anime, who read the wierd fanfic, and want to share it all with us. That's what I'm waiting for.
The Spanish word for waiting, esperar, also means hoping. The hope that "if you build it, they will come". So that's what I want for Christmas -- a community to share All The Tropes with, so we can have fun together.
So thanks to everyone who has waited for this project. Every other day or so, we pick up another user, so we're headed in the right direction. Just wait a little longer, and have faith, and we'll have a great wiki going into 2014.
Anyway, this week is going to be policy writing week for me. I think my favorite of all of the TVT policies is [[Zero Context Example]. As usual, it's written from the point of view of "your content sucks, rewrite it", but the idea that we should describe what we're talking about is sound. How do people feel about a [context needed] template (or "[context?]"), much like the [citation needed] links on Wikipedia?
We don't actually need a citation, of course, but things like that do make it easier to find pages that need help. After all, a ZCE is just a good example waiting to be written.
GethN7 has been asking me what to do with the Made of Win archives. Most of those tropers aren't around with us, but they could be in the future. I don't know what to do with it -- I'm leaning slightly keep, GethN7 wants delete. Any thoughts?
Anyway, let me know if you see any egregious policy pages, either here or on the forums. And please keep telling your friends about us.
-- ∇×V
I suppose Advent isn't truly a celebratory time, despite all that happens in the malls and with the insistent happy Christmas music over the radio. Originally the liturgical season was more a time of contemplation, of the history of the past. And how that past foretells the promise of the future; a mix of historical and eschatological perspectives. And most of all, it's about waiting and expectation.
Many of the people who have posted in this thread, have waited a long time for a new wiki to come to fruition. And finally, we're almost there. A website is up, the large majority of the content kinks are worked out, and it's a perfectly serviceable timesink. I mean wiki. IRC is becoming an active place. Some things are in progress, like rewriting policy. And there's going to be cleanup of the import and TVT-specific pages for a long time to come.
But it still feels almost done to me. What I'm missing are all of the people. The people who watch the obscure films, who watch the latest anime, who read the wierd fanfic, and want to share it all with us. That's what I'm waiting for.
The Spanish word for waiting, esperar, also means hoping. The hope that "if you build it, they will come". So that's what I want for Christmas -- a community to share All The Tropes with, so we can have fun together.
So thanks to everyone who has waited for this project. Every other day or so, we pick up another user, so we're headed in the right direction. Just wait a little longer, and have faith, and we'll have a great wiki going into 2014.
Anyway, this week is going to be policy writing week for me. I think my favorite of all of the TVT policies is [[Zero Context Example]. As usual, it's written from the point of view of "your content sucks, rewrite it", but the idea that we should describe what we're talking about is sound. How do people feel about a [context needed] template (or "[context?]"), much like the [citation needed] links on Wikipedia?
We don't actually need a citation, of course, but things like that do make it easier to find pages that need help. After all, a ZCE is just a good example waiting to be written.
GethN7 has been asking me what to do with the Made of Win archives. Most of those tropers aren't around with us, but they could be in the future. I don't know what to do with it -- I'm leaning slightly keep, GethN7 wants delete. Any thoughts?
Anyway, let me know if you see any egregious policy pages, either here or on the forums. And please keep telling your friends about us.
-- ∇×V