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Wiki upgrade finished August 2016

Posted15 August 2016
Last Updated On20 September 2018
ByNewsby

The Wiki upgrade is finished, and should bring a better experience. The downside: it looks like all our bookmarks to it won’t work anymore, and remember to log in with ALL UPPER CASE username.

http://bit.ly/2bkrnj7

Category: Help for Players
Topic: WIKI Discussions

Date: 08/11/2016 10:08 AM CDT
From: SIMU-WYROM
Subj: Wiki Downtime
Hey everyone, we’re going to be pushing a big update to the wikis this Sunday (8/14) starting at noon. They will be largely unavailable and read only until Monday (8/15). This update is so we can have some of the latest MediaWiki software and possibly get some desired extensions for us in the future. It will hopefully help with some performance issues we’ve been having too.

Wyrom, PM

Date: 08/11/2016 10:19 AM CDT
From: VANKRASN39
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime

>This update is so we can have some of the latest MediaWiki software and possibly get some desired extensions for us in the future.

Great to hear!

Date: 08/11/2016 11:28 AM CDT
From: DOUG
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
Seconded!

Doug

Date: 08/11/2016 01:58 PM CDT
From: ROBLAR
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
I’m glad you quoted his announcement!

I couldn’t see any of the other three posts he did.

Date: 08/11/2016 03:27 PM CDT
From: ROBLAR
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
And I guess that is because I somehow had him on ignore :/

Date: 08/11/2016 04:38 PM CDT
From: PFLATS
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
Could you put this on the front page of the wiki as well?

Date: 08/11/2016 04:49 PM CDT
From: WHIVEREEM
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime

If the server isn’t on PHP 7 yet it’s worth considering. Minimal to no BC breaks with PHP 5.5 and a literal double speed increase in the majority of web applications. Also, MediaWiki is pretty popular software so the PHP 7 support is likely already there.

Date: 08/15/2016 11:23 AM CDT
From: SIMU-WYROM
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
The wiki is coming back up. I believe we’re using short urls now as well. That likely means your bookmarks are dead. But let me know if you notice anything broken. It might be slow coming as we get things back up.

Wyrom, PM

Date: 08/15/2016 11:38 AM CDT
From: DOUG
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
Looking fairly good so far – including the search function! Yay.

Checking to see if the math functions are in play, too – but like what I’m seeing so far, even if bookmarks / references need to be updated.

Doug

Date: 08/15/2016 11:40 AM CDT
From: DOUG
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
Hmmm. . . well maybe not so much – can’t log in. Waiting . . .

Doug

Date: 08/15/2016 11:55 AM CDT
From: DOUG
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
Ok, log-in fails with lowercase (used to convert to upper case, but not so much anymore).

To log in, keep in mind at the moment both USERNAME and PASSWORD are case sensitive, and the existing account is very likely ALL CAP.

Math extensions aren’t enabled as yet.

Doug

Date: 08/15/2016 09:15 PM CDT
From: PFLATS
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
Math is working now, at least.

https://gswiki.play.net/Gswiki:Requests#Math_.28TeX.29

Front page is still redirecting to /MediaWiki, though.

Date: 08/17/2016 03:11 PM CDT
From: TYRANNY
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
Whomever is in charge of your wiki update needs to put a 301 redirect on the site for all old links. All google search result links and links posted in forums are going to https://gswiki.play.net/Mediawiki/index.php/BlahBlah they need a redirect to https://gswiki.play.net/BlahBlah

People think the wiki is down, but it’s because they are going to the old url’s that aren’t redirecting. This would keep all your google juice flowing as well and make it so you don’t lose your rankings for google searches when people are looking for info.

It should only take about 30 seconds to do, one line in the htaccess, so easy peasy 😛

Date: 08/17/2016 06:02 PM CDT
From: SIMU-WYROM
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
It’s going to be looked at tomorrow. No ETA, but hopefully something we can get soon.

Wyrom, PM

Date: 08/18/2016 09:28 AM CDT
From: SIMU-WYROM
Subj: Re: Wiki Downtime
The redirect is now live. Bookmarks and Google search results rejoice!

Wyrom, PM

 

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