Forum:Moving forward

With this wiki in spot-ridden limbo, and the message on the main page still scaring the newbies... I'd like to talk about moving forward. Firstly, I'd like to offer to create some alternative themes. It's something I've done for a few wikis now, mostly just because I like making them. I could make a set of three or so alternatives, and see what looks best. Of course, anyone else can make these... but I'd like to get the ball rolling.

Secondly, it would be good to clarify the future direction of this wiki. I've had this discussion on a couple of wikis so far, and in each case I've said that we would not be happy with any plan to remove content on forking. A change in focus sounds like an interesting idea, but my concern is in removing content from this wiki to drive traffic to another.

And finally, I see that moving pages has been disabled. I'll remove that restriction, and ask that you don't break this wiki's features in that way. This includes any code to disable uploads at any time.

In general, I accept that this wiki is going to fork, but hope that we can make it a smooth one... and that we can break out the limbo stage now and start moving this wiki towards its future. Thanks -- Sannse (help forum | blog) 23:48, November 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * As far as I know, the move page and upload restrictions only needed to be present while we were running a dumper tool to get a more complete database dump than MediaWiki offers by default. That dump is complete will be complete tomorrow and so the restrictions would have been removed presently anyway. I ask that you please refrain from interfering in our wiki before finding out why things are the way they are. One more day of not moving pages is not going to harm anything. [[Image:Felix_Omni_Signature.png]] 23:55, November 22, 2010 (UTC)
 * Please refrain from creating unnecessary pages, this topic is already being discussed at Forum:The future of GuildWars@Wikia--Łô√ë [[Image:Gigathrash_sig_G.jpg|Roar.]]îğá†ħŕášħ is hosting a Card Creation Contest! 00:01, November 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * The move restriction will be lifted when we have imported the text dump at the new server, which will hopefully be tomorrow. As Felix said, please refrain from interfering without at least attempting to learn why things are they way they are.
 * Also: "I accept that this wiki is going to fork, but hope that we can make it a smooth one" It would have been extremely smooth if you had left us alone to do what we need to do.  It's not our fault that the move is taking longer than we had hoped.  &mdash;Dr Ishmael Diablo_the_chicken.gif 01:18, November 23, 2010 (UTC)


 * Sannse, if you could kindly could let us handle things on our end, that'd be neat. On your end of things, you could kick your graphics designers to come up with decent default textures for Theme Designer, that would go a long way towards not making the spots the best easy choice (sadly). -- ◄mendel► 01:36, November 23, 2010 (UTC)




 * the message on the main page still scaring the newbies -- the problem is that Oasis is scaring the old hands, and we'd rather that they not give this wiki up for dead. We're talking to our readers in the in-game chat, and that's the feedback we're getting, sorry. -- ◄mendel► 02:03, November 23, 2010 (UTC)