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This would be useful. I stopped using that method since it required me to copy and paste the entire page, number it, remove the non-wick sections, and then painstakingly scroll down the page for each wick.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallNot sure what's the utility of it. May as well ask for a page that filters specific namespaces and shuffles wicks randomly so you can pick top 50.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupI can see it being useful in other scenarios; you could count how many wicks are in a certain namespace, for instance, and then notice if that namespace grew or shrink since you last checked (which is useful for wick cleaning). And a shuffling tool would have to account for the fact that some pages have 10K plus wicks to sort through; not even the randomizer I use now can handle that much information at once, and its literally built for these things.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper Wall^ Maybe then a counter next to each namespace and once suggested a method to Follow a Related tab?
Also if a randomizer takes more than two seconds to sort less than a million lines (just checked in NPP), then that's a really problematic randomizer.
TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupIt's not about time, it's that it is literally unable to take more than a certain amount of lines. It will not perform the randomization if you go over the limit.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallBump if this would work. Honestly, the Tropes Needing TRS page is getting clogged, as for me, the first step to make a TRS is to check for wicks, and that's a hurdle to many. Adding numbers before the wicks makes less effort to check wicks than installing Notepad++ (because Notepad doesn't have numbers) then copypasting then scrolling up and down to check random numbers.
Edited by alnair20aug93 ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔|I DO COMMISSIONS|ᜇᜎᜈ᜔ᜇᜈ᜔^ For me,
- Get the link of wicks from a page you want to How to Do a Wick Check (example
- Place in an online tool that allows shuffling or Notepad++
- Randomize lines
- Take first 50.
Bumping if this is still a good idea. Yes or no?
Are there also other randomizer generators than random.org? Generators that are more powerful and has little to no limits?
As I've mentioned several times by now, Notepad++, Edit, Line Operations, Sort in Random Order. 73830 lines (because I've Ctrl+A the entire page) at Big Bad got shuffled instantaneously.
Edited by Amonimus TroperWall / WikiMagic CleanupThe namespace filter mentioned in the second answer sounds like a good idea to me.
Also, adding numbers would make it easier to identify each wick once the numbers have been randomized. Not everyone uses the same wick randomization method, after all.
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In case it gets handy for checking large wick counts on pages whenever I use the randomizer method.