User:CreatorTheWikipedian2009/TV Tropes vs. Wikipedia

Main page: Wikipedia:Wikipedia is not TV Tropes

This is my chart that shows the difference between TV Tropes and Wikipedia.

The difference

Feature	TV Tropes	Wikipedia
Where the main page is located	TV Tropes, also called Main/HomePage	Wikipedia, or the wiki I'm here: Main Page
Mainspace name	Main/	(Main) or (Article)
Current site operator(s)	Chris Richmond and Drew Schoentrup	Wikimedia Foundation
Founder(s)	Fast Eddie	Jimmy Wales
Written in	PmWiki (modified, no source code available)	MediaWiki (initially UseModWiki)
Years of operation	2004-present	2001-present
Languages	13	342
License	CC BY-NC-SA	CC by SA 4.0
Commercal status	Ad-supported	No
Registration required?	Yes	No
Has the app?	Yes
Community	Tropers	Wikipedians
About notability	There Is No Such Thing as Notability	Has a long list of pages about notability
Special user groups	Moderators, administrators, engineers	Administrators, bureaucrats, oversighters, etc.
Namespace, where pages about guiding users on how to edit the wiki are located	Administrivia/	Project: (Wikipedia: or WP:)
Editing while unconfirmed	No, you must wait until email-confirmed	Yes
Discussions	Always long-winded	Shortened, archived, in form of noticeboards
Talk pages	Seldom used, but they exist	Each article has a Talk: page
Page groups	Yes	Virtually, no
Namespace restrictions (creation only)	Main/ namespace is moderators-only, Administrivia/ pages shouldn't be created(and edited), same with Archive/, and some others	MediaWiki namespace
Creation page requirement	Confirmed user	Registered user (except the MediaWiki namespace, creation-protected pages, and all .css, .js, and .json pages except yours
Preventing a page from being edited	Locking	Protection, see Wikipedia:Protection policy, and Special:ProtectedPages
User blocking	Suspension, bouncing (permanent ban) for severe cases, blocking can happen without warning	Wikipedia:Blocking policy, blocking can take a while to happen, plus there's banning
Userspace	Tropers/	User:
Page removal	Cutting	Deletion
Creation preventation	Cutting and locking, located at Permanent Red Link Club. Despite its name, some links were banned from the club	Deletion and protection, pages being prevented from creation are located at Special:ProtectedTitles, then there's the title blacklist
Moderating user group	Moderator	Administrator (sysop)
Getting special user rights	None, there was a saying that users pray for 333 days and they get ascended.	Wikipedia:Requests for permissions, or Wikipedia:Requests for adminship if you want to become an administrator
Controversial topics	Called Flame Bait, they shouldn't be discussed anywhere	Here, they're called contentious topics, and only certain users can discuss
Subjective content	Sorted into YMMV	Wikipedia:No original research does not allow that
Summaries in pages	Can be made easily, if constructive	Hard to do, because Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
Redirects	Called "altenative titles"	Stored in "Special:WhatLinksHere"
Comment deletion	"Thumping"	None, but in some cases, there might be redaction
Warnings	Yes, they're called notifiers	Yes
Bad content protection	The Content Policy	Wikipedia:Sexual content
Prudishness prevention	No Lewdness, No Prudishness	Wikipedia is not censored
Fun pages	Humorous essays, and April Fools'

Result

TV Tropes is like Wikipedia, but with laxer things there.

See also

We Are Not Alone Index