TASVideos will be celebrating its 20th birthday soon, and like most 20 year olds it has seen its fair share of weird oddities and changes over those two decades. Unlike a living 20 year old, however, those oddities haven't actually gone away in that time, and as a result we've sort of just kept a bunch of them archived on the site wiki ready to confuse anyone who looks at them. I'm proud to announce, admittedly far later than it should've been but still better than not at all, that we're working on changing that with a full wiki restructure project! Old information will be updated, misplaced information will be moved to the correct places, weird old pages with nothing on them will be removed, and by the end of this hopefully the wiki will be less confusing and contradictory towards itself!
Progress and discussion will mostly be happening in this thread, and everyone is encouraged to take a poke around the wiki and offer feedback on what changes should be made to provide a more accessible and easily understood site wiki. Feel free to bring up anything that stands out to you as strange or out-of-place: Chances are, it actually
is strange or out of place, and those are precisely the things we want to fix most.
Please note that this process will break offsite links to TASVideos if they link to any page that gets moved, renamed, or deleted, so be careful about linking to specific TASVideos pages offsite until the end of the restructuring is announced. We are accounting for and correcting onsite links and referrals as they come up during the restructuring process, so no need to worry there. Hopefully this won't happen too often, and it shouldn't be happening at all on the high traffic pages. There isn't much that can be done to prevent this at the moment, but if you're a developer and you're interested in helping us mitigate the damage, there is currently an
open pull request for a redirect system that could use a lot more attention, even if it's just something like "hey this ain't it chief, let's draft a better one". Help is always appreciated, especially help that comes in the form of giving us very shiny and very useful things we can use to make the site better!
Once we have a more concrete draft of the exact changes we want to make, it will be posted for everyone to see and discuss. I'm expecting this entire process to take a good couple months to allow for proper discussion time, further revision, preparation, and finally implementation. Some minor changes have already been made, mainly page deletions of pages that nobody even knew existed, and more of these minor changes will continue to happen in the background while bigger changes are being drafted and discussed.
All in all, here's to things not going terribly wrong! Even if they do, those results are probably still better than having a donation page that only read "We are not accepting donations" for 11 straight years and only realizing just now in 2023 that there's no reason to keep it around.
