[thaumasiotes]

> I always assumed it was user-driven like Wikipedia or Stack Overflow and that appears to be the case

Interestingly, there is now an "official process" for getting a page created. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Administrivia/Creatin...

I created a page a while back after reading the Wiki Magic page, which at the time described how a page might be created without much content and, if the community saw value in it, fleshed out by community members, as if by magic. The example given of the process was the Mega Neko page.

All of that has been removed, along with the notion that it might be OK to just create a page and see what happens. But although the official process was already in place when I made my page, the direct process hadn't been shut down. I didn't even realize I wasn't supposed to.

Coming back to something of a point, TvTropes, like Wikipedia, seems to have come around to the conclusion that user-generated content was valuable in the past, but they don't want more of it than they already have.