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closed Remove the Video Autoplay
It will help prevent spoilers, epileptics and (In case of Ben 10: Omniverse's clip "Rath has been naked all along") Ear-Bleeding.
Edited by Laggamer20xxclosed Notified marker
On the page history, if someone sends a Notifier for an edit, it'd be marked as such. This would 1. prevent multiple people from sending the same violation 2. note people that an edit broke which rule.
The problem would be tagging the edit after PM is sent.
closed Search option in inbox
Add a search engine to the inbox so you can search for a specific message.
closed Restrict viewing the engineer & mod discussion thread to those who can post in it
Currently, anybody can view the engineer & mod discussion thread
despite only engineers and mods being able to post in it. I'd like for the coding to be changed so that only engineers and mods can view the thread as well, cuz there could be some private, sensitive information that only they should be made privy to view.
closed "Related" page entry should match actual display name
If you open the "Related" tab for any page, all the entries are in default display form. They should be in actual display form, since that is the real name of the page.
closed Actual page names should work for namespaces
If a name of a namespace matches a page name where the display was changed, the namespace should match the actual display. For example, Bait-and-Switch is displayed as "Bait-and-Switch", not as "Bait And Switch", so BaitAndSwitch/LiveActionTV should have its namespace also displayed as "Bait-and-Switch".
Edited by Someone1981closed Remove the "title" attribute from hyperlinks in the "twikilink" class?
Since it's just repeating the "href" attribute, instead of doing something different than it would when without the "title"?
Hovering over the link would do the same thing even without the "title" attribute?
This is so links would be smaller, so it takes longer for pages to be too-long. ... But we could also cut out the "pmwiki/pmwiki.php" bit of the URLs to make them even smaller?
Edited by Maladyclosed Page History Pagination
When opening the History of a page with 1000+ edits, it tends to really slow the browser down. It takes several seconds to, for example, bring up the "Find" option and is flaky about finding all instances of what you're searching for because there is so much there. (I have a fairly good computer and still experience this in both Chrome and Firefox.)
What if every, say, 500 edits went onto a different page? You open the History and see the most recent 500 edits. You can then go to "Page 2" to see the next 500, and so on?
I went back a few pages and didn't see this request, apologies if it's a duplicate. It might also help with some of the other "History" requests I've seen, like taking you to a Troper's specific edit.
Edited by BeerBaronclosed The In-Between
I'm genuinely wondering if it's possible to form a term that would describe a support team that some where in-between a Red-Shirt Army & the Men Of Sherwood in terms of focus, characterization & competence, regardless of its quantity & moral alignment. If there is such a trope already, then feel free to lead me to it.
closed Giving index links a different color to trope links.
Right now, both trope links and index links are blue colored, but that has caused several indexes to be mistakenly listed as tropes. Thus, it would be a great idea to give index links a different color to trope links, similar to how links to disambiguation pages were recolored to green recently.
closed Exclude the preceding characters in a curly brace link
This wish was bought up by ~AudioSpeaks2 not too long ago. Please see here
.
This would be a character made in markup that would exclude the words preceding it in bracketed links. AudioSpeaks2 suggested $ and I recommended || — which will be used throughout the rest of the article.
Though that wishlist entry was closed for it being considered to lack overall benefit or advantage to implementing it, it also happened without there being time for reasonings being made as to why this would be of immense benefit.
So for starters:
Recap links — wouldn't have to have their entire name repeated in square bracket links just to exclude the franchise, season and episode number.
From [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E24AllGoodThings All Good Things]], to simply {{Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E24||All Good Things}}.
Similarly:
Very long WikiWords that have redundancies: like Artistic License – Biology; if the work has multiple artistic liberties taken by the creators, it would just be nice to mention them as a sub-bullet-point simply by writing {{ArtisticLicense||Biology}}.
Or how AudioSpeaks2 pointed out:
From The Cameo to {{The||Cameo}}, just like Justified Trope can be trimmed when writing examples with {{Justified|Trope}}. But then there are a lot of tropes that have an article so we'll just mention that one.
Further:
Extremely long WikiWords that could use a bit of trim, like There Are Two Kinds of People in the World could be trimmed down to {{ThereAre||Two Kinds of People|InTheWorld}}.
Essentially, this would reduce the use of square bracket links just to use different phrasing and wording to link to a trope.
closed Have the monospace font option also affect the History pages
i appreciate that the option to keep a monospace font was retained for the edit window, but i'd like to have the option to swap it back for the history pages as well, since it makes comparing what was changed a lot easier
closed Undo the Dec 14, 2023 Update
I don't like how the edit and history pages have changed yesterday. I think that, among other things: The "Search by" and "Common Edit Reasons" sections take up too much space, the duplicated edit timer is disorienting, and the "Editor character length counter" and the "Added, Changed, and Deleted" numbers are unnecessary at best, and eye-straining at worst.
closed Improved table markup
This is a wish for the improvement and feature additions to the table markup.
First, the fix of the, no-multiple-row-spanning-cells issue that is mentioned in Text Formatting Rules > Tables.
Second, colored backgrounds of cells and/or alignment.
Third, some sort of sorting from table headers.
Now, as anyone can see at this point in time that tables are very low on the list of formatting capabilities, their use even being equally sparse throughout the wiki — this wish focuses on bringing about articles related to BASIC
English (and other uses and languages, of course), for Useful Notes, See the Index and Get Help With English
.
Having attempted to do these kinds of tables for verb tense or synonyms/antonyms, for instance — it is proving to be overshadowed by the use of repeated terms that subtract from the overall clarity and simplicity of the tables. And yes, flipping between columns and rows only partially helps overcome the lack of the first feature.
This is very much a what? -> why? kind of wishlist entry that might not garner any support or even implementation anywhere in the near future, but I'm hopeful it will be added to the list even if it gets closed pretty fast for now.
closed Add page titles to ATT, TF, YKTS, Wishlist and Bugs
This entry might double as a bug entry.
I'm noticing that threads in Ask The Tropers
, Trope Finder
, You Know That Show...
, Wishlist
and Bugs
, all lack page titles at this time — they all create a multitude of similarly named entries in browser bookmarks and history. Is it possible to implement/restore a thread's title for page title for these areas?
It creates a strange situation of having to go through bookmarks to rename them, or all in history to find a particular one, or searching threads in those sections from memory.
Seems strange to me that there are few returning users in some threads and I suspect this is why.
closed Establish a "birthdate setting" and a "minimum age limit" for Tropers
I noticed there's no birthdate setting for Tropers, nor does there appear to be a minimum age limit. This opens the door for minors to come and wreak havoc on the wiki - they could do anything from vandalizing pages to throwing temper tantrums at mods in the forums. I therefore propose that a minimum age limit is established, and that all tropers are required to enter their birthdate upon signing up, or the next time they login. Tropers who are younger than the minimum age limit would not be allowed to do anything on the wiki until they "come of age," as it were.

Currently, only Tropers who are logged in can use the "Find posts by troper" search function at the forums. This honestly feels like an unnecessary and arbitrary restriction to me, and I can't think of a good reason as to why it's still in place. I therefore suggest that "Find posts by troper" is opened to everybody, including people who don't have an account and those who aren't logged in.