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And if listing all tropes would make it too long, it could be paginated. Or only list, say, the top 100, or only tropes with at least 2,000 wicks, or some other limit.
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It already is >= 2500 Wicks only. And I'd advise adding date of last update, for each trope when updating...
Big Bad got 466 new wicks... Last updated, by me, a little over a month ago. That's 15 wicks a day.
I'd assume that's the fastest wicked trope... Shout-Out is number two, and got 414 in about the same amount of time.
So long as we don't add a new category above > 10000, things are gonna be pretty stable, for a while? The lowest ranked tropes get 1 wick on the order of days, or more, depending on how well known they are.
Disambig Needed: Help with those issues! tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=13324299140A37493800&page=24#comment-576
I think I'm expanding on this a little bit, but I think having a widget for Main/ page articles with over 2500 wicks could be helpful for monitoring abnormalities, preferably showing total wicks, changes in wicks (per week?), and a list of tropers who added wicks in the past period (per week, perhaps).
Like, if you watch it periodically and see Big Bad just gained 250 wicks in a week (rather than 400 in a month), then it might be helpful to look at the troper(s) who went on a spree. I'm sure Overdosed Tropes have their own set of problems unique to popular tropes, like people jumping on the bandwagon and shoehorning examples en masse.
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I like that idea.
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Currently, Overdosed Tropes has to be updated regularly, and even then it's probably outdated as you read it. (The description acknowledges this). Same thing goes for Trope Overdosed, although it doesn't list the pages in exact order, nor does it list their exact number of wicks. What if there were a feature that listed all pages typed as "work" or "trope" by the number of wicks they had, which would be automatically determined by the wiki software instead of created manually. It would probably have to be a non-wiki page, but I wouldn't have to visit each page individually, opened the "Related to" tab, and wait minutes as the wicks loaded. For an idea of what it would probably look like, see the list of all namespaces and the number of pages in them
. A similar feature for inbounds could also work. It's just an idea...
Edited by Lymantria