Some tropers (myself included) have been moving works from the Main/ namespace to the appropriate namespace. Unfortunately, some of these moves were done without the wicks being corrected to reflect the new namespaces.
There are more wicks than any one person could handle, so I'm posting here in hopes of getting help. Here is a list of pages that have been moved and need their wicks corrected. (Let me know if you spot any others, and I'll add them to the list.)
EDIT: The list has been moved to Administrivia.Wick Namespace Migration.
Add completed moves in Completed Namespace Migrations.
edited 17th Jul '12 6:56:08 AM by lu127
To my knowledge, the design change at first won't affect namespace migrations at all.
The "relational database" will put all the works into appropriate namespaces and make sure that all examples are pointing to the proper addresses, I think. In-text work links might still need namespacing.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
Just to inform everyone that the Wick Migration pages, including ones such as Administrivia.Creator Pages In Main are now open again for editing.
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
To fellow namespacers, I'd like to bring to your attention that the Suggesting new namespaces
thread is discussing the addition of the Myth/ namespace and its exact breadth; we'd welcome further opinions on the topic.
This is just a note that I'm moving Main.The Journey Of Allen Strange to the Series/ namespace. There are only 15 wicks to fix, so I'm doing it myself, just wanted to make a note of this somewhere. If there's any other location where I should note this for posterity, please let me know. Thanks!
EDIT: Deleted from Work Pages In Main, and will add it to Completed Namespace Migrations as soon as I finish (which should be in a few minutes).
EDIT: Done done done. Main page cutlisted, all wicks fixed, 12 inbounds, indexing done (I initially made the edits before moving the page, so I needed to re-save those indexes). Added a cautionary note in comment markup to Main.The Journey Of Allen Strange letting folks know that they should make edits to the Series/ page, not the Main/ page.
edited 30th Dec '14 2:19:46 PM by SolipSchism
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The above markup is not necessary; the usual procedure is to turn the Main/ page into a redirect.
Even if you did cutlist it, it is safer as the cut may take a month before it is implemented.
You should also have taken advantage of the move to put the trivia tropes in the Trivia tab, but that's a minor point.
edited 31st Dec '14 2:07:05 AM by StFan
Well, I only came upon the problem because I was crosswicking and one of the wicks led me to that page. I guess I can fiddle with the Trivia tab, shouldn't take much time.
I will do the redirect, though, I should have known that. Thank you.
EDIT: Oh, it looks like you already did both. Thanks again. I will keep that in mind in the future.
edited 31st Dec '14 9:59:24 AM by SolipSchism
A little word for those namespacing the works going in the Myth/ namespace: you may have noticed, some of them are used on work pages as if they were a trope. This usage, of course, is wrong; such examples should not be just namespaced but also moved to a more appropriate place (mostly Trivia or Shout-Out).
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
I'm come across some pages as I've been going down the Anime redirect list using the page type per namespace tool on Itty Bitty Wiki Tools, and I've come across some misspelled main redirects:
Main.Dancouga Nova with 7 wicks, —> Anime.Dancougar Nova.
There are others, some of which have a lot more wicks than that. I'm going to prioritise next time I'm online for a long period (which will be Tuesday, I hope.) getting these wicks moved and the misspelled redirects from main cutlisted. And the misspelled redirects in other namespaces. If it redlinks, the person will more likely correct it.
Also, the "related to" bug has been fixed, for anyone who has stopped editing due to that issue (I severely reduced the amount of editing I did until it was fixed.)
edited 22nd Jan '15 4:27:46 PM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
I have a question regarding Completed Namespace Migrations: What is the difference between [] and () numbers?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
One is meant to be wicks that can't be moved(Archives, etc.) and one is meant to be ghost wicks.
Just got Dungeons And Dragons's mainspace wicks knocked down to 1389.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I have just migrated the work page on Feng Shen Ji to the Manhua namespace. I have fixed all the incoming wicks to point to the new name except for the entry in Monster: Anime And Manga A To H, which I could not fix because that page is locked. Should I request the page be unlocked, or can someone with secret powers fix this?
edited 15th Mar '15 9:43:14 PM by Mercy
I do have these secret powers
. I've fixed it.
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might. Thanks.
I've reduced WorkPagesInMain.J To L's unmoved material in the L section to three works. I am not sure of the namespaces to use for these.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Dread Sorcerer of Auchtermuchty
The Kevin Saga is unsearchable, and Propah Job Studios website (for Left POOR Dead) is shut down. google returns no results for either of them. Although I found a weird story about a T.Rex, it doesn't appear to be related. John Wizard Games should be in Creator.
edited 28th Apr '15 10:31:15 AM by TheOneWhoTropes
Keeper of The Celestial Flame
The Kevin Saga doesn't show any evidence online, so I've cut it as a non-existent work. Propah Job Studios I could actually find via the Wayback Machine, so it's namespace. I've provisionally moved John Wizard Games to videogames.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The Guardians needs namespacing, but Literature.The Guardians is already taken.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Be fair, Literature.The Guardians is one paragraph with... a list of characters? And that's it.
I am a wee bit concerned about wick collision - I suspect a number of wicks refer to Brook's work but some of them won't.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
That is true. This doesn't seem like a case where the difference will be obvious to anyone who hasn't read at least one of the works in question. :/
Filthy casual
Since the page has to be moved anyway, can't it be moved to something like Literature.The Guardians Meljean Brook? You know, in a similar fashion to how films with the same name are differentiated by the addition of the year they came out? I know the wicks have to be checked to make sure that they're on the right page, but I'm sure it's doable.
(Annoyed grunt)
I've disambiguated the page Literature.The Guardians and redirected the Main/ page to it.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
WorkPagesInMain.S To U is down to 97 pages to move.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
There is one important thing you may want to talk about with the new owners: How exactly will namespaces work in the new system? And if they work differently, what does that mean for your effort here?
Get rid of the walled garden