TV Tropes
TV Tropes, also called Television Tropes and Idioms, is a wiki[1] that collects tropes seen in movies, television shows, video games, books, and other media. It started in 2004. It originally covered only television and movie tropes, but has since added other media such as books, comics, video games, advertisements, and toys.[2][3] Unlike other wikis such as Wikipedia, it covers tropes in a casual and funny way.[4]
Type of site | Wiki |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, German (translation occurring slowly in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, Swedish, Italian, Esperanto, and Quenya, among others) |
| URL | http://tvtropes.org/ |
| Commercial | Ad-supported |
| Registration | Required to edit |
| Launched | April 2004 |
| Current status | Active |
Content
changeTV Tropes started by focusing on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It has since added other television series, movies, books, plays, professional wrestling, video games, anime, manga, comic strips, and books, fan fiction, and other subjects, including Internet works such as Wikipedia, which is called "The Other Wiki" on the website.[5] It also describes topics such as science, philosophy, politics, and history under its Useful Notes section.
The site has pages on series and tropes. A page on a work has a summary of what the work is about, as well as the tropes that are seen in the work. Trope pages are the opposite of articles on works: after describing the trope, it lists the trope's appearances in different media. For example, the page for the antihero trope has a list of works that have different types of antiheroes.
Trope pages are created through a system called "Trope Launch Pad" (originally called "You know that thing where ... "), TLP, where other users, who are called "tropers", can give examples or suggest ideas to make the page better. This was originally just a suggestion to help the page improve before launching,[6] but as of 2016, all new trope pages go through TLP before creation.[7]
References
change- ↑ Cagle, Kurt (April 1, 2009). "From Mary Sue to Magnificent Bastards: TV Tropes and Spontaneous Linked Data". Semantic Universe. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
- ↑ "The Current - TVTropes.org: Harnessing the might of the people to analyze fiction". Thecurrentonline.com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-02. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
- ↑ Pincus-Roth, Zachary (28 February 2010). "TV Tropes identifies where you've seen it all before". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ Newitz, Annalee (2010-02-24). "Behind The Wiki: Meet TV Tropes Cofounder Fast Eddie". io9. Archived from the original on 2014-12-19. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
- ↑ "Wikipedia - Television Tropes & Idioms". Tvtropes.org. Archived from the original on 2012-07-12. Retrieved 2013-12-17.
- ↑ "TLP Guidelines". Archived from the original on 2013-02-03.
- ↑ "Timeline of TV Tropes".