All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part VII

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First, "TvT Rivals", please.

OK, @Tv Trivals then: did you know you can edit your account name in forum settings?

Any of you guys into CSS? We like CSS Zen Garden very much, but we don't have enough time for working on intricate details.

I'm not "into" CSS, but I either read or code CSS almost every day of my life. Left to my own devices I tend to create "programmer interfaces".

But the question is, what could they do to us?

Do you like having money?  Do you dislike having money taken from you?  If so, you may want to consult a lawyer or change the logo.

BTW, how much contact did you have with the new crew? Maybe you can help us with this.

GethN7 has semiregular contact with them.  I personally have a lot of problems with talking to them, most of which involve the fact that I don't really know what I would say to them that wouldn't involve me taking legal action against them or them taking legal action against me.  Goddamn minefield.

If you'll happen to like our wiki enough, and the software runs well enough, who knows, maybe we can merge our forks one day.

Oh wow, I had that same offer from Drewski a couple years ago.  It comes with the same conditions, though:

• Can you ensure that censorship will be limited enough so as not to infringe academic freedom?
• Does the business model ensure the privacy of users, or is it going to be blasting advertising at people?
• Can you create a moderation culture based on rules, not on how offensive it is to moderators?
• Can we work towards making this a content creation wiki, not a content classification wiki?
• Wait, your offer is: "Come back to TVT and close ATT, we'll give you mod and $0 and no policy changes"?  What, so we can work with people we don't even like for fun? No drewski, fuck you too!

Seriously man, drewski gave me such an insulting offer that I never want to work with him.
OK, for the questions part:

• Is your code open source?  Can I look at your repo?  Every part of the ATT infrastructure is OSS.
• Is this an entirely new wiki software, or have you hacked it on to something else?  Are you parsing wikicode or are you doing a WSIWYG editor?
• Is this a class page-model wiki, or are you doing more of an trope/example model like what TVT was talking about, where trope/example would be added to both pages at the same time via aggregation of examples?
• Can you tell us anything about your team or yourself?

I also want to say that you are giving me ideas.  Lots of ideas. 

It was quite some work, but we decided to keep Tv Tropes-like indexes instead of plain categories as in MediaWiki.

Yeah I've always thought of implementing the TVT style indexes -- at least alphabetically -- on top of Mediawiki categories.  At this point it would be a SMOP, but it's all about finding the time.  And there always seem to be more pressing needs.
Anyway, I appreciate the work TV Rivals!  Keep it up!
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