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Good luck moving such an enormous archive to a newer, cleaner platform, though. Hell, finances aside, I don't think that's even possible without putting the entirety of TV Tropes on ice for several months, and even then all edit and post history would be lost. And if it's not put on ice and the migration is based on an archived copy, it would immediately become outdated, as info here is in constant evolution.
If anyone has any ideas on how to accomplish this task with a minimum of losses, delays and costs, we'd love to hear it. Legit.
A procrastination in of itself
Yeah there’s no way to do it in an affordable manner. To do it from a technical perspective you’d have to build an entire secondary site, test it then copy the forums and edits across from the main site from the daily backup.
The cost of such a manoeuvre would be absurd.
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran
So I'm a little late to this, but I just noticed that Septimus closed this Wishlist Query recently, on the grounds of it requesting "multiple, unrelated concepts". But, it doesn't. It's only requesting one thing: a warning icon added to index wicks when they're used on the main page, in the same way that YMMV or Trivia items have icons.
Note that I'm not saying the admins need to implement this right now, just that I don't see why the query had to be closed.
I'm helping!
>This would also be useful for tropes-turned-disambiguation
>Could also be used to discourage linking Darth Wiki and Sugar Wiki on main
I think these are what Septimus was referring to... wouldn't call them "unrelated", but I guess that's not my call.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Berserk Button: misusing Nightmare Fuel
Yeah, I don't really agree with the query closing since, in the end, the additional suggestions all come back to "have more types of warning icons next to links". It's all related, even if it doesn't strictly match the title of the original post.
No, that's too many unrelated things under the same query. Some of these warnings would require some rather fine-tuned technical criteria to trigger and I am not sure if all of them would be desirable. Generally, in such circumstances it's better to have separate queries.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
A procrastination in of itself
So with the US presidential election now called I figured it’d be worth starting to discuss at what point the results watch thread in OTC should be closed and people redirected to the general US politics thread.
Now, once all results are formally certified, once the electors have voted, once the Georgia runoffs are done, once Congress has certified the results of the electors or after Inauguration Day?
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran
Redmess
I think once results have been certified would be a good point.
Optimism is a duty.
I don't think we need a separate thread anymore, but there's a case to keep it open for the Georgia runoffs. (North Carolina and Alaska don't matter, and I say that as an Alaskan. Biden is President, end game.)
I despise hypocrisy, unless of course it is my own.
Figure of Hourai
We should definitely wait for all the results to come in at least rather than randomly bothering the main politics thread with number updates.
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Very Spooky
Please decline the cutlist requests for Who Can Kill a Child? and its YMMV subpage, since I managed to raise the number of examples with context by reverse-crosswicking examples from other pages.
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Done.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Alright. Not only did my video fail to upload BOTH times (MP4, 60 FPS), but so did my ATT query. I have never experienced this issue before, and I am confused. Please help me.
Mods: I uploaded two attempts of the same video for Song Parody, but only one actually got through. I cannot delete the one that didn’t get through, as I refreshed the page as it was still processing. Please deny the one that did not get through.
Big Catch, Sparkle Edition
You should be able to by hitting the gear icon. It happens to me all the time.
Current Project: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
The gear icon simply would not get hit.
Besides, I’m on mobile right now.
I'm helping!
Sometimes the gear icon just ceases to operate. My Baba Is You Reality Breaking Paradox video won't let me edit it — I believe this is related to the mojibake at the end where I tried to credit the original youtube uploader, which is annoyingly ironic because fixing that is why I want to edit the video in the first place.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
I feel like I should point out this doesn't seem like it's on-topic for the Discussions about moderation thread. Would it better suited to a tech support thread?
I'm helping!
I think I mentioned it in one of the video-related threads, though I forget which one... Probably should file it in Query Bugs too.
Trouble Cube continues to be a general-purpose forum for those who desire such a thing.
Very Spooky
Please fix the nonexistent and invalid “[[Trivia/“ subpage that’s listed alongside other the other subpages for Dick Figures.
Edited by jandn2014 on Nov 19th 2020 at 10:30:55 AM
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Isn't that a Cut List problem?
Very Spooky
It can’t be cutlisted due to the invalid namespace.
Edited by jandn2014 on Nov 19th 2020 at 10:49:08 AM
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A procrastination in of itself
Folks please look at the pinned post, it explicitly states that this thread is “not for ... requesting moderator action in the wiki”.
Edited by Silasw on Nov 19th 2020 at 4:40:35 PM
"And the Bunny nails it!" ~ Gabrael "If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we." ~ Cyran
Other forums don't really have that problem. This site's code is just made of spaghetti.
Edited by Karxrida on Oct 30th 2020 at 7:08:05 AM
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