Thread:Forum:Wiki Talk/Let's make a Trope Decimal System!/reply

Oh what on Earth...

You know, if there's one thing I can't keep in my head, it's numbers; words are still easier to remember. But I applaud the effort to organize us further.

Still, I feel like your idea is very Square Peg, Round Trope right now. Even your example, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, is both a Live Action and Animated Film. That was kind of its schtick. If we choose one, then we're always going to left answering that question of why it's in one and not the other. And that's going to apply to all of the genre busting works too. Part of our goal on ATT is to get away from that concept of One Trope Name to Rule Them All -- Nakama and True Companions are both good names; thesauruses exist for a reason.

Pretty much all of library science is moving away from these kind of code numbers, and moving towards semantic data, tagging, and the like. Libraries still use numbers for physical organization, but we don't really have that (except physically on disk, and we don't want that abstraction).

What you're really looking for (or maybe what I'm really looking for) is something like Semantic MediaWiki. We've been hesitant to install it, because it really is a resource hog. But it would be cool if we could just look for pages with Category:Live Action TV, Category:Science Fiction, and Category:American Series. Basically the way the *boorus work, where you type in relevant tags.

Let me look some more. Actually, I want this extension: Multi-Category Search; it basically describes what I want above. User:GethN7, can we get this one? It would be nice to add searching based on tropes/works to that (i.e. WhatLinksHere), but it looks like a start.

Back on your post, that list of work categories (by media) is pretty damn good. We need an equally good list of work categories by genre, and works categories by place of origin. Or like you say, classes of creators. The problems you identify are dead on, but your proposed solution is really questionable. As is your sanity, User:QuestionableSanity. Still a lot of good ideas in there, though.

@GethN7 Hey, does Cirrus/ElasticSearch do this kind of stuff?