Xenn
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Post by Xenn on May 15, 2023 0:22:53 GMT -5
I hope everyone is doing well and having fun on the server. I'm posting to let you know that I will be shutting down the website that hosts the wiki soon. I don't have an exact date, but I'm planning to do it in about 2 weeks (around the end of May).
I've hosted and maintained the wiki for almost 5 years now. I started it as a way to thank Sturm and Bupu for the server, and hopefully help other players. I paid to host it on a 3rd party server until last year, when I started to self host it.
I spent of a lot of time in-game taking screenshots and trying to make sure information was accurate before adding it to the wiki. However, I don't play on the server frequently enough anymore to make sure the info is up to date. I haven't updated it since last December which is when I was playing regularly. I've had little interest from other players to contribute (thanks Arnoc for your contributions). I did have a player recently message me to ask for editing permissions, but that is what prompted me to think about the wiki's future and my role in it.
I mainly don't want the responsibility anymore for making sure the wiki software is updated, or worrying about keeping the site up. If someone wants to start a new wiki, I highly suggest creating it on a public site, like fandom, where you won't need to worry about hosting, and anyone in the community can edit it (without needing an account). Feel free to copy anything over from the wiki, including images.
I'm giving this 2 week notice so I can see if there is any interest in someone hosting a new wiki. If so, I can keep the existing wiki up long enough for a transition.
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Post by Sturm on May 15, 2023 12:43:11 GMT -5
Thanks Xenn!
I'll do what I can to build out the website to include alot of the info on the wiki. (or at least save everything to a file so I can do so when I get time.)
Appreciate the heads up sir and all the work you put into it over the years for us all to enjoy!
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Xenn
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Post by Xenn on May 16, 2023 11:18:22 GMT -5
Thanks Sturm! Are you opposed to a Fandom wiki? I could create one there and start moving information over. Another option would be having a wiki on the same server that hosts the Imperium website. I'm not sure how you have that server set up, but it may be possible to install a wiki on it, and start moving info to it.
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Post by Sturm on May 16, 2023 17:37:48 GMT -5
I am not opposed to anything, if you want to port everything over to Fandom I'm certainly fine with that if it's going to be easy for you to do. I'm grabbing what I can as far as the info, but man there's a ton of pictures on there! lol
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Post by korthain on May 17, 2023 11:15:33 GMT -5
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Post by korthain on May 18, 2023 14:10:29 GMT -5
I have moved everything over to imperiumeq.fandom.com/wiki/Imperium-eq._WikiThe only links I did not move over are the channel logs. It took me about 3-4 hours to get it all set up as I had to copy all the images, Texts, and links manually, but the source coding is the same. Xenn did a great job on the original which made the transition easy.
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Post by Sturm on May 18, 2023 14:27:18 GMT -5
I have moved everything over to imperiumeq.fandom.com/wiki/Imperium-eq._WikiThe only links I did not move over are the channel logs. It took me about 3-4 hours to get it all set up as I had to copy all the images, Texts, and links manually, but the source coding is the same. Xenn did a great job on the original which made the transition easy. You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you.
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Post by korthain on May 18, 2023 15:01:13 GMT -5
I have moved everything over to imperiumeq.fandom.com/wiki/Imperium-eq._WikiThe only links I did not move over are the channel logs. It took me about 3-4 hours to get it all set up as I had to copy all the images, Texts, and links manually, but the source coding is the same. Xenn did a great job on the original which made the transition easy. You sir are a gentleman and a scholar. Thank you. If you need me to do anything else let me know.
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Xenn
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Seeker of Knowledge
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Post by Xenn on May 18, 2023 21:35:41 GMT -5
Nice job korthain, that was fast! Sturm, you can probably update the wiki like on imperium-eq.com/ now to point to the new site. I will look at redirecting traffic from the old wiki to the new site.
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Post by korthain on May 18, 2023 22:29:53 GMT -5
Fandom gives a lot of extra abilities that would be easy to utilize.
Streams that Strum doses on YouTube Weekly fishing pictures from discord
Could be a good resource to show a lot of new people the fun aspect of the server.
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Xenn
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Post by Xenn on Jun 3, 2023 0:29:12 GMT -5
I have updated some settings so that links to the old wiki should redirect to the new wiki. Thanks again korthain for quickly moving all the content over!
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