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Important things to know:
- We're all about that content-creation life! The top contenders for our attention are ideas that'll create more content, like the video uploading feature, or speed up launching new pages. On the flip side, design or layout tweaks won't be our top priority.
- Help us dig through the goldmine of old wishlist items! If you have an old request gathering dust or spot one you're totally on board with, give it a bump and a like. There's a treasure trove of 6+ years' worth of ideas just waiting to be rediscovered. Items without enough love may not make the cut and will be closed.
- Was your wishlist item locked up without an explanation? It was most likely disapproved or just too big of a task versus the benefit it would ultimately have. Time is precious, and we want to focus on updates with the biggest bang for the buck. Don't be discouraged though! We appreciate every idea and we're always listening.
Make a Tech Wish:
openMultiple filters in New Edits
Would it be possible to have a way to filter the "New Edits" page by multiple namespaces at once? There's multiple namespaces I'd like to keep an eye on at a glance without having to open a different tab for each one.
openFeature pages appearing in search results
Hello! I was advised to mention it here for something noticed with search results, with My Hero Academia as the example!
When Google Chrome is used, for instance, the prominent pages for the series are appearing. The issue at hand is that when the Search feature here on TV Tropes is used: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/search_result.php?cx=partner-pub-6610802604051523%3Aamzitfn8e7v&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=ISO-8859-1&siteurl=&ref=&ss=&q=my+hero+academia#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=my%20hero%20academia&gsc.page=1
the top results are currently:
- Dethroning Moment / My Hero Academia - TV Tropes
- Fanfic Recs / My Hero Academia - TV Tropes
- Fan Works / My Hero Academia - TV Tropes
While those are lovely pages as well, perhaps it would be more helpful for the average reader for them to come across what could be considered the main pages first. A search engine optimisation matter, this is already the case with many other series where everything is working ideally in that sense, it's just so far a one-off with My Hero Academia!
These articles:
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/MyHeroAcademia
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/MyHeroAcademia
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/MyHeroAcademia
May be the more suitable landing pages. The Franchise page appearing first in Internet search results would be a great update there. When readers search for the MHA series here on TV Tropes, the Manga and especially Characters pages appearing at the top might be what viewers are looking for.
Where many series already have this setup, it may be an SEO area for these particular pages, or as suggested there might be technical updates available that could assist with this.
If there was time to enable these feature pages to appear at the top of search results, the idea is that should help readers more readily access what they are searching for and that simultaneously helps TV Tropes share all the wonderful articles too!
workingFor cut pages -- display name of troper who cut(listed) the page
On the Cut List, you can see which tropers requested which cuts. However, when a page is actually cut, you cannot. This has presented occasional problems in the past, usually when pages are inappropriately cutlisted and said cut is accidentally approved — this happened with LetsPlay.RT Game, for example, before enough consensus was established to properly cut the page (which eventually did happen). In addition, this used to be the case — some pages cut in the past display the person who cutlisted it.
Thus, I would like it to once again be visible to display the name of the troper who cut the page. If there are issues with this idea, let me know and I will withdraw my proposal.
Edited by themayorofsimpletonopen"Restart Upload" button for uploading Video Examples.
As we all know, it can take upwards of five hours in order to upload a single Video Example- and the upload is as likely to result in an "Upload Failed!" alert as it is a "Transcoding Complete" notification, which will of course result in you spending 3-4 days and over a dozen upload attempts just to upload a single video.
To alleviate the frustrations of tropers, I would like to see a "Restart Upload" button pop up automatically whenever the Video Example upload attempt ends in "Upload Failed!". Once this button is clicked, the upload resumes right where it left off. That way, someone trying to upload a Video Example won't have to refresh the page and then start the upload all over again.
(for reference, it takes only 30 minutes for me to upload a 3-hour-long gaming stream to YouTube, so I know the problem isn't with hardware or bandwidth on my end.)
Edited by AacornSoupopenFull "Search By Troper" edit history, for pages with less than 1 page of edits.
I know that for pages with tons of history, like VideoGame.Persona 3, it's limited to edits within the past 2 years
...
But could it get all editing tropers if it's only a page long, like for VideoGame.Apocalypse
(Future people, note: will disambig eventually)? Of course, it depends all about how the database search works.
But, I could just hide all the change notes and count manually.
Edited by MaladyopenNumeral Input for Post Searching
Theoretically, instead of having to click all the way to the end of a page of a forum or all the way to the beginning, why not have a middle blank space to insert a page number that directs us to top of that designated page?
For example, there's <<1 - 4,000>> and if you insert 3,000 into the blank space then you are transported to the top of that page.
openMake the Archive/ namespace restricted to mods and engineers
Lately, we've been having issues of tropers misusing the Archive/ namespace to store things like video links and examples, presumably because they misunderstand what our Archive/ namespace is for. I don't actually see much purpose in allowing people to just create a page in that namespace to begin with; it's specifically meant for preserving our own wiki content, with pages that are locked and never updated. Logically, it shouldn't be open for anyone to just create a page under, because any valid pages would need community consensus and a mod-lock anyway.
closed Input validation for new Launch Pad entries
The Trope Launch Pad regularly sees low-effort proposals from people who haven't read the TLP Guidelines, usually consisting of a few sentences and nothing else. The Laconic just being the title verbatim is another common issue. Such proposals are also usually abandoned as-is with the user never coming back to fix the issues. Is it possible to implement form validation for new Launch Pad entries to stop these low-effort proposals from getting through? I feel like something as simple as detecting if the proposal has three bullet points in it, with an error message directing users to the TLP Guidelines if they try to submit, would stop the majority of them.
Edited by ObservanceopenOutdated tool
The old content violations report
still gets new entries when people flag pages. Can it be changed so that it doesn't get new reports? In fact, since all these reports are new and have threads, we could set this URL
so that it only says "This is where the content policy panel (5P or P5) voted on how to handle a work. Today we use a different method. If you want to see reports actioned by the 5P/P5, head here
and here
" and keep the "resolved_done" and "resolved_not_done" listings the same.
workingNotify wiki watchlists of TRS threads
So, this is one half bug report one half wishlist, but topically and structurally related:
- People are no longer notified on the watchlist when a TRS or IP thread is opened or posted in, on a page they watch. Tested it with Bad Liar and this
test thread. Back in the day, all posts in a TRS or IP thread made a notification on the watchlist if you had the IP'ed or TRS'ed page watchlisted. This should be recreated.
- It might be useful to have TRS threads send a notification to all watchers of pages that link to the TRS'ed page, not just the watchers of the TRS'ed page. As the site grows, the number of wicks per page will increase and thus the probability that people notice a TRS discussion only when the wicks are modified, i.e when it's too late to remark upon it.
closed "Italicizing work titles/names" edit reason
For whatever reason, a select few Tropers seem to forget italicizing a title of a given work, whether it's improper formatting, using commas in place of the standard italics (the former is only used for episode titles), or not italicizing a work titlw at all. I feel like we need an edit reason for properly italicizing work names.
openOption to "Follow" ATT, TLP, Trope Finder Queries
It would be nice to have an option to "Follow" queries made by others on Ask the Tropers, TLP, Trope Finder, etc. so you're notified of updates. Maybe you could get a little notification like you do when there is a reply to one of your own queries.
You can work around this a little on the TLP as long as you've interacted with it in some way by viewing My History, but it's a bit tedious if you have a lot of activity. I'm not aware of a similar option with ATT or Trope Finder, however, and it's sometimes valuable to be able to find an old query or follow an active one more easily.
I searched a few relevant terms (follow, query) and went back a few pages but didn't see this one previously requested. TIA!
open"IP approved" tab for page pics
The idea for this is to have a toggle on the edit screen, staff-access only, that when selected adds a small tab above the frame that normally encloses images and captions on pages that says "IP Approved" or, in the example I created, says "IP" with a checkmark. The tab would have hovertext attached to it stating "Image approved by Image Pickin’ forum." or something similar, plus maybe a statement to go to the forum to make further changes. I proposed the idea here
, plus a draft of how it might look, and the idea has some support behind it.
closed Twitter icon
Twitter was renamed X, so we should change the link to the official account to reflect that.
closed Give mods the ability to suspend Tropers from hollers
Mods can currently suspend Tropers from making edits, posting on forums, making and replying to queries etc. A Holler Suspension feature will cut down on excessive hollers and reduce the frequency of pointless hollers - plus it makes the mods' jobs easier, since they won't have to waste time reading hollers they're not going to respond to.
(And on that note, yes I know the mods can just ignore hollers if they so choose - they've ignored several of mine in the past, and that's perfectly fine by me - but I figure it'd be easier for them if they don't have to do that.)
closed Redirect entries on search lists should explicitly be marked as such
Today, I did a search for Agatha Christie's Poirot Loses a Client. The first result was—correctly—Dumb Witness, but I was unaware that this was a different title for the same book. What would have helped greatly is if the entry for Dumb Witness on the search list indicated that it is a redirect target for my search.
Edited by Someone1981openTags and blurs for Video Examples.
I would like to see certain tags added to a video that, if checked, will cause the video to be blurred out, give the reader a warning, and cause the video to not automatically play. These tags would include:
- Spoiler Alert, for plot twists, solutions to mysteries, or story endings, to which It Was His Sled, Foregone Conclusion, or Late-Arrival Spoiler do not yet apply.
- Graphic Content Alert, including blood, gore, childbirth, or Body Horror.
- Strobe Light Alert (for the benefit of Epileptic Tropers).
- Trigger Warning, for depictions of suicide (including Video Examples for suicide tropes), Domestic Abuse, PTSD flashbacks, or other things that could be a Trauma Button for Tropers.
- Foul Language (if a video contains a Precision F-Strike, Cluster F-Bomb, Atomic F-Bomb, or other NSFW words).
Once these tags are implemented, uploading a video example would require tagging it for Spoilers, Graphic Content, Strobe Lights, or Foul Language; submitting a video example that contains these, but not marking any relevant tags, is automatic grounds for rejection, and the Troper will have to go back and add the tags in order for it to be approved.
If these tags are implemented, Tropers would be given a three-month window to mark any of their existing Video Examples with these tags, after which the Moderators would be able to change the Video Example's Approval Status from "Approved" to "Denied"; the Moderator would then be able to change the Approval Status back to "Approved" once the Troper added the relevant tags.
Of course, videos containing sex scenes, jump scares, or Tropes explicitly marked "No Video Examples" would still be denied automatically.
I was inspired to make this Tech wish by noticing how certain Moderators are more lenient or more strict than others on what Video Examples are suitable for approval (for example, one of the approved Video Examples for the trope Bloody Hilarious is a scene from Dracula: Dead and Loving It, where a Vampire being staked results in a character being drenched in blood and gore; and yet a Video Example for the exact same trope from the movie Suck, in which a Vampire drinks a person's blood through a soda straw, was rejected for being "too gory" despite showing significantly less blood). I figured that if both videos were given a "Graphic Content" tag (and/or a "Trigger Warning" tag), they would have both been Approved.

There are people who still post using First-Person Writing (f.k.a. "This Troper") even when that was explicitly banned from the Wiki eons ago. However, there isn't a preset message to send about this particular issue.
EDIT: Found the message, but it's hidden in "natter", so I suggest renaming natter to "natter/first person" or something similar.
Edited by AM_NK