GuildWiki talk:Software & Technical Issues

The Look
MediaWiki's user interface isn't exactly perfect, and to be honest, pretty dull. I've enabled user stylesheets, mess around with them all you like. If you come up with something good, it just might make it into the site proper. I'd really like to spruce the place up, and have been privately tinkering with the stylesheets and HTML skeleton to try and optimise it a bit. Suggestions/comments/hate/etc. Gravewit 18:26, 13 Oct 2005 (EST)

Upgrading
I've wanted to put together a solid upgrade schedule/policy on GuildWiki's mediawiki guts for some time. So, let loose with any ideas/complaints/etc you have on the subject. I'm shooting for this weekend to make changes, so there may be some downtime (it's unavoidable, but should be short). I'd like to put us on 1.5.0, but that would undoubtedly mean some quick security patches very quickly, which could mean more problems. Discuss. Gravewit 15:14, 12 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * My thoughts:
 * Let's announce the time on the main page in a special box so people can see it.
 * Is 1.5.0 the latest version or is there later?
 * Can we also discuss a schedule for backups? How frequently do we backup currently? And where are the backups placed?
 * Thanks. --Karlos 15:47, 12 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * 1.5 is the latest stable release, moved out of beta a few days ago. There's the 1.6 alpha (perhaps moving to beta now, I don't keep up with MediaWiki development) which is run on all the large/famous wiki sites.  I'd guess it would be a lot of effort for Gravewit to run 1.6, since he would have to (or, at least really should) keep up with changes and fixes, which isn't a problem for the large sites.  --Fyren 20:10, 12 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * Whilst you're upgrading could you look into this please Talk:Main_Page =) Skuld &Dagger; 17:28, 12 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * Actually we've been messing with that off and on for quite some time. If you hit up the Wiki at all during the day and get a 404 or other error, that's why. The 6th month anniversary of the wiki is on the 7th of November, and I'm trying to get it all sorted by then. Gravewit 18:20, 13 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * At the moment, EVERY page needs to get purged. All links are going to /guildwiki/* and are broken.  After an edit/puge, a page's links are "corrected" and don't have the guildwiki/.  Alternatively, you can make it so /guildwiki/* still works.  Some pages have been edited since the change and so would need a purge to go back to the old links even if you set things back to how they were before.  --Fyren 19:22, 13 Oct 2005 (EST)


 * Looks like you were hitting the site as I was setting up the pretty URLs. I actually did both, for the sake of any outside linkage that might not be working. Gravewit 20:30, 13 Oct 2005 (EST)

Keywords
I notice that almost any given article does not have the phrase "Guild Wars" anywhere in its html source. I suggest adding to the KEYWORDS metatag of every page:

In includes\OutputPage.php, change $wgOut->addMeta ( 'KEYWORDS', $a.) ; to $wgOut->addMeta ( 'KEYWORDS', $a.', Guild Wars, GuildWars') ;