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Revision as of 03:03, 8 September 2011 by Cybdmn (talk | contribs) (iPhone games.)


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FPShax/doom WTF?

What is this page - FPShax/doom - about? A dead website, which isn't even to be found anywhere in the internet archives. The page ist included in various categories, to which it not belong. To be honest, i would like to call a vote for deletion.--Cybdmn 21:56, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

Looks deletable to me. GhostlyDeath 04:04, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Need to answer a "captcha" question for links?

Special:Preferences tells me that I'm in the "Autoconfirmed users" group, however I still needed to answer a question (which replaces captchas here) to modify an external link. ???

Hmmm.  Try logging out, dumping all cookies for doomwiki.org, then logging in again?
Possibly external links are purposely harder to use, now that we don't have Wikia's battalion of anti-spam tools.    Ryan W 22:46, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

The brave new world of independent hosting

Hello all.

Sorry to be the bug in the raspberry here, but our separation from Wikia has given us a few extra to-do items (mostly for admins).  Ideas I've had so far:

Real-world issues
  1. Designate one or more users who know how to contact the server maintainers offline, in case of a prolonged outage where they are unreachable in the normal manner.  (I have nothing against Manc and I respect the longevity of his contributions to the community, but he is a human being like everyone else.)
  2. Offsite backups.  Even downloading the MediaWiki dump once a week is better than nothing [1].
  3. Review licensing notices to make sure our wiki-to-wiki copying practices are still justified, in the absence of standing Wikia directives.  (Not a discussion about whether CC-XYZ or GFDL is better — that's for later.)
Vandalism, spam, and all that
  1. Identify at least one admin who can perform range blocks competently, and knows how to deal with collateral damage.
  2. Be vigilant about keeping Doom Wiki:Administrators accurate and up to date.  In particular, we should try not to run out of active admins — we will be responding to attacks far more often, and without the automated reversion tools that Wikia's janitors use.
  3. Consider reinstating Special:ProblemReports.
  4. Consider semi-protection of Entryway (by far the most frequent target of junk edits).
Bureaucratic mop-up
  1. Create Doom Wiki:Departure from Wikia (or whatever) to explain the reasons for the fork.  This should include instructions for migrating an account, resetting preferences, etc.  IMHO it should also advise editors not to spam the old site or otherwise create fanfare.
  2. Remove links/references to Wikia from Entryway (including the transcluded parts), templates, and policy pages.  Already done during "power user" cleanup period.
  3. Deactivate mirrors of Wikia's help pages.  (As a short-term fix, Wikipedia's tutorials are probably OK to link.)  Already resolved during "power user" cleanup period.
  4. Remove references to Wikia policies/help pages from system messages.  Already done during "power user" cleanup period.
  5. Disable hardcoded shortcuts like [[w:, [[w:c:, and [[mw:.  This will create broken links, obviously, but that is preferable to letting new users click through to the Wikia content and become confused.  (As a bonus, we might finally eliminate the colon bug.)  Already resolved during "power user" cleanup period.
  6. Change the default skin!   :D  Already done during "power user" cleanup period.
Other
  1. Possibly reach out, off-wiki, to inactive longtime contributors and notify them of the fork.  (Even active editors do not always read Central Processing or dwforums.)
  2. Set up a widget allowing users to donate toward hosting costs.  Done by Manc shortly after the site opened; Monobook users have to switch skins to see it.
  3. Fix the robo-generated meta keywords and other SEO "enhancements" made by Wikia over the last 4 years.

I regret the appearance of volunteering other people's time, but I cannot do all of these things myself as I lack the required technical skills.  Hopefully the first two lists, at least, are non-controversial and people can agree they are needed.

Ryan W 02:46, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

Derivative works on the iPhone

There are some games, using the Doom Classic soure, which are not covered here, or just mentioned an a side note. The question is, how do we handle this stuff? There ist Hacx Classic, which is mentioned in Hacx. Hell On Earth and Doomsday are mentioned in Freedoom without names. Doomsday II: Legions of Hell and Dooms Knight, are not covered, both use Freedoom ressources, but with new maps. Bastards, the game using various ressources from community projects, as mantioned here, is not covered.

So how should we cover all these stuff? Just add new entries for the missing games, and improve the others in the sections, where they are mentioned? Or add new entries for those games too, and redirect to the main articles, where they are mentioned? --Cybdmn 08:03, 8 September 2011 (UTC)