You see a conspicuous lack of nitty-gritty.
> Add facts
> "Our fork is of content from early June 2012.
> Pages were collected between July 2 and July 9, 2012."
> Done
> Create article using facts
ERROR. Human intervention required for article creation.
> Print timeline
Microsoft Printer Setup returned with exit code -237.
> Say timeline
"timeline"
> Dammit why don't you work
You don't know what words mean, do you.
> List Timeline
60,000 tropers discover TV Tropes. TVT becomes a "must visit" site on the Web.
October 26, 2010
The Google Incident, aka The Situation. Google suddenly and without notice shuts off all advertising to TV Tropes, in response to a determination that TVT was not compliant with their AdSense guidelines. TVT responds by implementing various low-impact methods such as requiring registration to see "non-compliant" pages (without ads).
April 2012
The Second Google Incident. Responding to another threat to TVT's advertising revenue due to Google being informed of "inappropriate" content, Fast Eddie responds with a previously-unseen alacrity. Hundreds of pages addressing topics unsuitable for persons under the age of ten are culled and a censorship regime is imposed on the entire wiki. The P5 is established and populated by a hand-picked team of bigots, prudes and Lickspittles, whose advice Fast Eddie ignores when it conflicts with his own prejudices.
May 2, 2012
Looney Toons posts an expression of disgust and disappointment about the censorship regime on his TVT user page, explaining why he cannot in good conscience remain a member of the wiki. Within 12 hours he is permanently banned from TVT and the page is blanked and locked. In his wake other tropers also abandon TVT.
2 to 9 July, 2012
Vorticity runs a crawler to get all of the content of the TV Tropes wiki in source form.[1]
Some point between July 8 and July 17, 2012
TVT abruptly and without warning changes its licensing from the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.[2]
Early November 2013
In response to increasingly annoying questions by wiki members about their copyrights, TVT administrator/moderator Fighteer inserts language into the "Welcome to TV Tropes" page explicitly and unilaterally seizing all copyrights from contributors without their consent[3], thinking in his adorable childish naïveté that this was both legal and an appropriate solution to uppity users who should know better than to question the wiki administration.
1 November 2013
The first page of All The Tropes is imported to the Orain servers, Blaxploitation. The page was randomly selected by Perl's hash algorithm at some point in the conversion process.
All The Tropes gets its first media mention on Hacker News.
22 May 2014
All The Tropes' second version of The Forums is unveiled.[4]
9 June 2014
The first time we passed 200 edits in a single day to the Main namespace, thus filling up Recent Changes. (Excludes times where we were moving a bunch of pages, because it's easy to get 15 in one go there.)
The new owners of TVT actually consult a lawyer about the illegal rights seizure implemented by Fighteer, discover the legal hole they've been in for a year and a half, and reverse course on user copyrights so dramatically that they leave skidmarks.[10]
17 July 2015
An Indiegogo page for Miraheze, a new wiki farm, is set up.[11]
The "Grammar and Wiki Editor Improvement Center" subforum is created.
Late August 2018
Our benevolent overlords at Miraheze implement a limited version of Matomo Analytics, allowing us for the first time to see a crude representation of inbound links to the wiki. The "Weirdest Inbound Link of the Day" page is re-established.
16 October 2019
In response to increasingly toxic behavior on the parts of single-issue editors (and, unfortunately, a wiki admin), the trope Complete Monster is locked and subjected to an Example Sectionectomy, then converted to a Useful Note. The discussion was heated, to the point that Part 4 of The Troper's Code was ignored all around - not one of the wiki's finer moments. The admin in question leaves the wiki in a huff and, with the blessing of the other members of the admin staff, starts his own wiki.
13 December 2020
In response to anonymous users flooding the wiki with low-quality edits over the previous several weeks, a policy change was proposed, debated and implemented on the Literary Criticism page acknowledging that anonymous editing of the wiki was a privilege and not a right, and could be disabled on a temporary or permanent basis if the situation warranted it.
19 January 2020
After the anonymous users continued inserting low-quality edits despite repeated tempbans and repeated attempts by admins to communicate with them (and in one case despite extensive communications with admins), the new clause on the Literary Criticism page was invoked, and anonymous editing was suspended for a period of one month.
23 February 2020
After no objections were voiced by any staff or users, the moratorium on anonymous editing was extended for another month. It will continue to be debated monthly until such time as the majority of participants in those debates favor re-opening the wiki to anonymous users.
1 May 2020
After several more months of no objections to extending the moratorium on anonymous editing, the interval of review for the moratorium is increased to three months.
↑This is probably illegal as such a license change requires the approval of all contributors ahead of time, something the TVT staff did not get. At the very least it leaves TVT's copyright status in a legally dubious state.