TV Tropes
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| Status: | Vibrant |
| Language: | English |
| Edit mode: | ConfirmEmail |
| Wiki engine: | PmWiki |
| Wiki license: | Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike |
| Main topic: | Fiction |
Television Tropes & Idioms (TV Tropes) is a "catalogue of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction".
Content
The articles on the TV Tropes wiki can be roughly categorized into two areas: trope pages, containing descriptions and examples of common tropes and idioms in television, cinema, literature, comics, etc., and pages that contain brief introductions to specific works of fiction and lists of tropes found in them.
Additionally there is a number of namespaces reserved for quotes, trivia, subjective tropes, character lists, fan theories, etc. Some articles are additionally available in languages other than English.
| Wiki size: | 260,889 article pages see stats |
(As of: 7 July 2013)
Guidelines
TV Tropes explicitly stresses that it is not related to Wikipedia and that there is no such thing as notability on it.
History
The site was founded in April 2004 by the users Gus (who died in 2006), Janitor and Fast Eddie. [1]
On January 12, 2008, the main database of the website malfunctioned, rendering all its contents unusable. Additionally, all backups since October 2007 were discovered to be corrupted, so the entire wiki was "warped" to the state of three months before. By the end of that month, the damage had mostly been cleaned up, as the community had joined forces in recovering the lost content from caches of other websites such as Google. The incident has since become known as "The Great Crash". Since that time the wiki has grown and all the lost pages have been recreated or fixed.
On December 7, 2008, the official wiki logo has been updated, now referencing ("lampshading") the concept of "Lampshade Hanging".
On October 26, 2010, Google AdSense disabled all ad serving on TV Tropes because the wiki was assessed as not compliant with Google's AdSense policies. A number of changes were put in effect by the administration, such as introducing NSFW content warnings and disabling anonymous editing. The Google resumed serving ads on November 9. The incident became known as The Situation.
Around April 2012, Google Adsense received reports of inappropriate links not compliant with their policies, and in response to what was dubbed The Second Google Incident, an official culling of pages about adult works and severe edits to subjects like rape and sexual topics was instituted in order to keep TV Tropes from falling afoul of Google's content policies for a third time.
In April 2013, in response to several security breaches such as a DDoS attack and repeated trolling/vandalism, TV Tropes changed their log in system to require email confirmation.