wiki is dead
 

all the link does is try to download something. posting this so that someone capable of fixing it knows it's having a minor seizure.

IT'S ALIVE

What happen? Dreamhost set up it the bomb?

Site quota exceeded.

Dreamhost moved my condign account to a new server, which meant the full directory path setting in the MediaWiki configuration was now invalid.

I took this opportunity to tweak URL redirection, so now the wiki has a new address structure (wiki/articlename instead of wiki?title=articlename).

This seems like the best thread for this. The GFF D&D page on the wiki is inaccessible (probably due to the ampersand). Can somebody do something to fix the ampersand bug or take the ampersand out of the page title or something?

The URL redirection seems to have broken it, since I remember someone was writing novel-length treatises there.

In any case, there's a solution for it, though it involves bugging Bigblah... I tried to log in to create a stop-gap redirect, but it seems the ampersand bug affects the login page as well.

I applied the fix and it seems to work now.

Also damn that wiki is slow.

Edit: Nobody can login to the wiki at the moment. Since it's an ancient version I'm going to just abandon this installation and set up a new one on the GFF server.

Any luck with the new wiki? :)

Gamingforce Wiki

No styling yet. The content would have to be transferred over manually, the old wiki is so ancient that upgrading would be too much of a hassle.

FUCK THAT

I went in and thought about fiddling with it but then realized that i didn't know what i was doing - i don't know that language

Oh my. Poor Tails.

There still seems to be a problem with logging into the ancient GFWiki. Is there a way to make it so that guests can get to the edit page? It will make migrating data over a tad easier, since it'll be a matter of copy/paste.

Ok, edit page is now publicly accessible.

Great! All we need is to reapply the old template and change the GFWiki link up top, and we're in business.

Well Tails? What say we hop to it? I'll start copy/pasting members whose names start from O to Z, while you go from A to N?

The pictures can wait. Uploads are currently disabled anyway.

EDIT:

Blah, I've managed to grab all 1981 pictures, MP3, and MIDI files from the condign wiki. I have a couple of questions:

a. Do we have enough space for these? They currently take up 92 MB.
b. If the answer is "Yes", do you know of a way to do a mass upload?

EDIT 2

Someone with an IP of 173.48.167.52 (Verizon) has been doing ... very interesting edits... :(

EDIT 3

Here's a possible way to do a bulk upload >> http://muddybranch.thejkgroup.com/20...-to-mediawiki/

GFWiki Reconstruction Project!

I will be posting lists of pages that need to be manually ported from Condign to the new Gamingforce wiki. Following this post will be a link list, in batches of 75. If you wish to claim a batch for your own, please post in this thread.

You don't need any special knowledge of MediaWiki to do it. All you need to do are the following handy-dandy steps:

1. Middle-click the link you see on the left side
2. Copy everything in the text edit box. (Click anywhere in the edit box, type CTRL+A, then CTRL+X. If you see all the text disappear, you are successful.)
3. Middle-click the link you see on the right side
4. If there is already text in the text edit box, STOP. Proceed to the next link. If there is no text, go to step 5.
5. Paste everything in the text edit box. (Click anywhere in the edit box, and type CTRL+V. If you see all the text appear, you are successful.)
6. Click Save page which is just below the edit box

Batch Assignments

1. DONE!
2. DONE!
3. none
4. DONE!
5. DONE!
6. DONE!
7. DONE!

Batch List

Looks like either Hyde or Hawkeye is having some fun. Anyway, only registered accounts can edit now. Also, someone's been promoted!

Yay!

Tails not interested no more? I estimate it'll take maybe two days to get all the pages up. Dunno about the pictures.

Also, uploads are enabled now.

Yeah, I'm a wiki-retiree currently. Feel free to take up my place and if things need revising once it's all ported I'll lend a hand if I have the time.

Hell, I think I didn't even finish revising all the Awards pages fully, half of it's probably still undone.

Heh. Some dude named "Hyde" is having a field day revising things. I'm not sure which of his contributions are legit, and which are not. Though I'm pretty sure Nazpyro isn't Adolf Hitler. On the other hand, I'm not sure if you, Tails, were the actual winner of the 2005 Worst Sense of Humor Award...

e: niggers niggers niggers

ee: also holy shit all of his edits are dumb, just ban the guy already

eee: also revert that shit

eeee: no im not signing up to do it either

eeeee: CHz whatup

Can anyone find out who has an IP of 173.48.167.52 here? Just curious whether this fellow is the real Hyde or not :)

While not an exact match, the IP is consistent with his, at the very least. I'd say it's pretty likely.

Sweet. Now I won't feel so bad about dropping some of his work on his own user page. Thanks :)

whatever it was, it definitely wasn't me, i try not to mess with things i don't understand. The new Wiki is looking good, Zerg (and anyone else who's helping)

Alright, I've finished the migration of all regular wiki pages, as well as the templates. I hope the images can be mass-uploaded at once, because I'm not crazy enough to attempt it.

Changing the skin to the dark blue scheme, as well as the link up top, should just about wrap things up, and we're back in business!

Old Wiki: http://gfw.condign.org
New Wiki: http://wiki.gamingforce.com
All 1981 images, mp3, and midi files: http://upload.jetsam.org/others/GFWiki%20Pix.rar

Bumping to say that we're getting like 6-10 spammers per day registering new accounts and creating new pages that link to their online drugstore.

It would be nice if ReCaptcha can be used on the user registration page (few bots can break it), or if there's manual approval of new registrants. Either should be fine :)

Hey, we might want to get rid of the GFWiki link at the top, because even the new wiki is dead and full of retarded spamshit, plus firefox told me it was an attack site and I didn't believe it.

nooooooooo
 

I was about 80% done with some changes I made for my own article with a lot of ideas springing up for other articles when I was advised it was dead. Now checking this thread I see the backup version Zergrinch contributed so heavily to is also gone. Very depressing. Is the wiki dream all over now?