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workingAdd "cutting complaining" as a common edit reason
I can see an edit reason like this streamlining the complaining cleanup thread's efforts, even if only slightly. It might also be worth adding an internal link to Complaining About Shows You Don't Like.
If a query like this already exists, feel free to disregard.
workingAdd extra message from new TRS threads to new CV threads
Newly launched TRS threads have the following message at the top:
However, newly launched CV (Content Violation) threads do not have the bottom part of the message, instead simply saying this thread is locked. I would like for that part of the message to be added to newly launched CV threads.
Edited by JHD0919workingAdd 'sort by year' and 'sort by wick count' to the Namespace Index.
The Namespace Index currently lists all the articles we have in the typed namespace. It defaults to alphabetic sorting but I think it'd be dead useful if the items could be sorted by year and wick count. The Main/ namespace, at the very least, as it'd make it easier to identify TLP crashes and starving tropes.
workingCustom "bad title" page like Wikipedia has
Markups that I made for what they'd look like:
Edited by opal6561
workingAdd a completely random page button to the header.
The Random Trope and Random Media buttons on the top of the screen will only ever send you to pages with a media namespace, or the "Main" namespace. It will never send you to a subpage like Nightmare Fuel or a trope that has individual pages for mediums. Sometimes I like to hit the random buttons to see if I can find a page without an image and correct it. The thing is, most of the pages that are lacking images/could use improvements are the subpages that the random buttons won't send me to. I understand that I could just click the namespace links on the page I arrive on, but this would speed things up a bit.
workingDirect links to videos
Currently it's impossible to point to a specific video on this site. Instead you would have to describe it like this: open the video from work X on trope page Y.
Would be great if each video had a link that everyone could open from the forums. E.g. in the same way you can pop up images on tropedia◊.
Edited by eroockworkingSummary of account activity
Some key metrics like overall edits and word count, the topics you’ve contributed the most in absolute and relative terms to. That sort of stuff.
workingAdd image uploader button to TLP
Since it's missing one.
A better way could be just use the wiki editor for TLP, which would make draft editing on a separate page, have the preview button, and include the visual editor, but for now just adding image uploading would be easier.
workingFix how settings are stored
As is, the settings resets whenever the cookies expires (for literally no reason), and it becomes real bothersome to have to reconfigure everything after that, specially because some settings are hidden inside the account settings. So, idea: attach the settings to the account, so when you log in, it remembers the settings as they were and automatically applies that.
workingAttach Video Names to PM Rejection Titles
Currently, every video rejection PM just has the title of "Video Submission Rejected". I wonder if it would be possible to make it so that the title of video (or the trope it's attached to) is in the title. I have to reject many, often times from the same troper, and if they respond to me it can be confusing as to which one they're addressing.
workingWesternAnimati...
This is something I've already mentioned, but since we have a new system...
On top of a page, among the possible icons, the one for the longest work namespace, "WesternAnimation", read as "WesternAnimati...".
This is a bit ridiculous, because the ellipsis take about the same space that writing the final "on" would take.
I understand the need for this for the few subpage namespaces that would be longer than that, but the threshold ought to be just two characters above the current to allow a namespace as common as "WesternAnimation" to always be read in full.
Edited by StFanworkingGet rid of unnecessary New Edits filters
I know it's a minor issue, but it has been bugging me for a while.
- AATAFOVS: Why does this Just for Fun thing warrant a filter? It doesn't seem to be very active nowadays.
- Narm: These pages are fun to read, but why should they have their own filter?
- Title Bin: Has joined the Permanent Red Link Club.
- Wall Banger: Cut three years ago.
- Worldbuilding: Inactive if it even exists.
- Various languages: Most of these are inactive. Are they worth keeping anyway?
And why is there no YMMV filter? Certain work types (e.g. Visual Novels) are also missing filters.
Edit: The Discontinuity filter also seems unnecessary.
Edited by MathsAngelicVersionworkingKeep the most recent edits permanently listed
Currently, the entries listed on the Recent Edits pages are automatically deleted after a few days. This means that certain filters that are less regularly edited often have no edits listed at all.
This is especially harmful for the language filters. Because they are not contributed to as often as the other categories, selecting a language usually results in an empty list of Recent Edits. It makes it extremely difficult for the people working on the translations to notice new contributions if they are more than a few days old, and is extremely discouraging for new potential translators as it makes it seems like no progress is ever made.
I thus suggest that the ten or so most recent edits for a given filter be listed regardless of how old they are, so that the Recent Edits page can be as useful as it once used to be.
Edited by YugnatworkingCreate a page button.
On the wiki can we make a "Create Page" button? Taking an existing page's link and modifying it to make a new page doesn't really make sense and is a bit inefficient. A create page button would be so much easier and more functional.
workingAllow tropers to see their edit, post and notifier data
Moderators can see how many edits, forum posts and notifiers a particular user has.
This isn't visible to the user themselves, though - with notifiers, that can lead to situations where someone's had 10+ notifiers for wiki issues spread out over a year or more, but they're scattered in their inbox and they don't fully realise that this is becoming a recurring problem.
If we can do so securely, can we give tropers visibility of the same high-level breakdown by category that moderators see?
This may help to highlight problems before we end up with suspensions and appeals.
(Some information has been edited out of the example screenshot, as tropers don't need to see the other aspects)
Edited by Mrph1workingShow ratings and clip length on Recent Video page
Make the ratings visible on the Videos overview. It's might be particularly interesting for the My Videos part.
Edited by eroock
working"Fixed Formatting" Edit reason
We need "Fixed Formatting" as one of the default edit reasons. I occasionally have to edit an entry because it has unmatched backticks or an open folder markup without a corresponding close folder.
workingWord Cruft edit reason
Word Cruft is a frequent occurrence on this website, and despite other common problems like natter and grammar having edit reasons, it doesn't have its own one. Here's how I'd think it'll look like:
"Cleaning up word cruft"
Edited by ChillyBeanBAM
It has occured to me that there's no way to take back a launchpad vote, pressing the same option gives a pop-up that it has already been voted on, and pressing the other option switches to it. There should be a third option to remove your vote from a draft.