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NIWA Community => NIWA Discussion => Topic started by: dkpat on October 23, 2012, 11:21:11 PM
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Hello Everyone who still pays attention to this website.
I'm just looking for a "check in" type of update for every member wiki. See who is still completely active, and who might have fallen off the radar. Please try to only check in for wikis that you are a member of Staff on... I don't mind people pitching in to give what they see going on at a wiki, but I'd rather hear The story from members of that community.
So. Here's Golden Sun Universe, checking in. Everything at our wiki is going as usual. Activity has been fluctuating lately between periods of deadness and major activity. We recently have been dealing with a crap ton of spam account creation, which I may have successfully eliminated by use of the Asirra extension ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#Asirra (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmEdit#Asirra) ) Please install the Standalone version, not the ConfirmEdit Version. We have no major projects going on currently, though I personally hope to have our Fandom section completely revamped and presentable in the near future (probably a pipe-dream).
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SmashWiki is currently running in Green mode, with a constant and healthy supply of edits and nothing exceptionally urgent to accomplish. Most edits are minor corrections with the odd move and several split/merge discussions (both active and stale); we're also getting new accounts at approximately 1.2 per day and have a reasonably active IRC channel. We currently (as of this post) have about 1,150 "things to do", a number generated by things like cleanup and stub tags which is broadcast across the main page and recent changes.
Aside from content, things like new policies and simplification templates have been popping up pseudo-regularly, mostly in an attempt to get better hatch-batteners for when the inevitable will occur in the next year and the wiki will (for the first time ever in the "modern era") have to deal with a new game and all the shenanigans such brings.
We do seem to have a bit of community stagnation and fragmentation though. There's a pretty big gap between "the old hands who have a clue", "the new guys who have a clue", and "the riffraff", with the groups generally never interacting beyond "oi you broke-a da rules". Some people also think we have few if any potential new staff candidates, which will certainly be a problem if we experience explosive growth in the future, but is currently mostly a non-issue.
So overall SmashWiki is in good shape for the present, with a hopefully-distant uncertain future.
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I can check in for Dragon Quest Wiki.
We are mostly running in hibernation mode right now. Since there are no titles planned for release in the USA anytime soon, and the prospects of Dragon Quest X online making it out of Japan are slim, there is little interest in the wiki at the moment.
We also were having major issues with spam account creation. I am glad to see some advice posted above. I will have to try out that extension when I get the chance.
So, overall not a lot to report. SEIWA also is in somewhat of a hibernation mode. We contacted just about every eligible wiki that might someday join, but virtually every one of them is understaffed, stagnant, or otherwise.
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StrategyWiki is quite healthy; we're getting plenty of new members signing up, and lots of edits, recently added a new admin, and nominated another potential admin.
F-Zero Wiki, on the other hand, isn't doing quite so well - we'd been having endless spam until recently, when I found a method of removing the 9000-odd spam accounts that had been set up (must try that Asirra extension). The main reason, presumably, is the F-Zero series' dormancy - no new game since 2004 obviously isn't going to help. Nintendo Land hasn't helped us any, yet, but here's hoping...
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Fire Emblem Wiki says "hi."
Sadly, between the spam accounts and the zero interest of people to help, we are pretty much paralysed - only three active members. There is even a brand new game, coming here next year, and yet...
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Salutations from Donkey Kong Wiki.
Over here, we get small bursts of activity from time to time. A bunch of the IPs like to vote in our Jungle Arena forum. Regarding the wiki content growth, it's going to be a while before Nintendo makes another main series Donkey Kong title, though we have plenty of stubs and whatnot to sort out. In addition, the article count is slowly making its way to the big four digits! I've been working on creating level articles. Our last main series game, Donkey Kong Country Returns (2010), has most of the necessary articles aside from levels. Once DKCR is completely covered, the article count will be beyond 1000, and I'm hoping to crackdown on stubs.
We did get a user who insisted on copying articles off of Mariowiki, which has been handled.
We have been getting a few spambots, which has been dealt with.
In conclusion, nothing too exciting. I don't see the wiki getting too much more activity, as it appears the DK franchise will be at a stand still unless the developers of DKCR make a sequel.
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Icaruspedia is reasonably active, there are some days where we will have 10 edits, some days where we only have one. In terms of things to do, there's a handful of extensions that need installing which have not yet been installed, but only one user is able to do that, and we have a lot of weapon and AR card articles still to make.
We do have spam accounts registering, though at a much lower rate than what it used to be, and the wiki gives clear instructions on how to hide the spam. Still, this Assira may be worth installing.
For active users, we have one user, who is also a patroller, IceBlue, who edits almost daily, four members of staff that check the wiki daily, who also edit, and we've got about four standard users who make edits at random.
All in all, we aren't going to drop into inactivity any time soon, though our current activity may not last forever.
Being Lylat Wiki staff, I can also comment on the activity of that: Yeah. Not too smashing. 0 edits per day, 0 active users, primarily because it does not exist at the current time. We've even had our domain snatched. But I do believe that Tacopill is making progress on getting it back up, albeit with a new .info URL.
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Greetings from Metroid Wiki.
I wouldn't exactly call the dry spell we're going through an "All-time low," but it's pretty far down there. Our wiki was pretty much completely run and contributed to by between only 3-5 members, and everyone seems to have gotten pretty busy with real life. I just got married last month, myself, so I'm a much busier lady.
That having been said I actually saw a couple of the other members on the RC within the last couple days, so that was a nice breath of fresh air. But for months the situation has been that we are missing MASSIVE amounts of articles from nearly all of the games and don't even have enough members to vote an image/article to featured status. So if anyone with an interest with the series has some free time on their hands... ::)
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alright, going to do things briefly:
- Lylat Wiki: please see this post (http://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?topic=1265.msg24626#msg24626)
- Wikibound: Tina will be posting.
- Fire Emblem Wiki: Aria's post (http://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?topic=1274.msg24617#msg24617) pretty much summarizes it. Thanks Aria!
- Nintendo Wiki: Trying to get things posted, but kind of hard to do so, when only one of editor is helping. Not that I am not thankful, just trying to verbalize the difficulty. What seems to be the biggest hinderence, is very few people have server access, none of which are active on the wiki and I am not sure if they are following the N Wiki Board (http://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?board=29.0) here on the forums.
Also, I am have a Square Enix Wiki (http://seiwanetwork.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) up... that needs some love...
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WikiBound is.... um.... mostly inactive with occasional edits. In the last 30 days, 6 days of activity in which 4 editors have made 10 mainspace edits. However, editors pop in every now and then to show that it hasn't been abandoned completely.
This is mostly due to our small pool of editors probably being busy with other things (ex: school), lack of motivation (man who even uses WB over Starmen anyway??), or that it's kind of hard to scrounge up info on a dead series.
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The Super Mario Wiki is busy as ever.
The only news that might interest NIWA is that we became affiliated with a couple non-English Mario Wikis recently (a German one (http://www.mariowiki.net/wiki/MarioWiki:Hauptseite) and an Italian one (http://www.mariocastle.it/wiki/Pagina_principale)). There's a whole sidebar interwiki link system set up, but regrettably, we haven't really done much with it yet as far as implementing it on our articles goes... Still, it's a start.
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What seems to be the biggest hinderence, is very few people have server access, none of which are active on the wiki and I am not sure if they are following the N Wiki Board (http://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?board=29.0) here on the forums.
You can always contact me for server things. I should see any post here within a few days, I get e-mails for every user talk edit at wikis I'm a member of, I think I get e-mails for PMs here, and I'm often in the Pikipedia and NIWA IRC channels.
As for the topic: Pikipedia is getting edits on most days - sometimes not very many, but a 4-day RC listing is rarely empty. The IRC channel's fairly active, so people are around.
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What seems to be the biggest hinderence, is very few people have server access, none of which are active on the wiki and I am not sure if they are following the N Wiki Board (http://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?board=29.0) here on the forums.
You can always contact me for server things. I should see any post here within a few days, I get e-mails for every user talk edit at wikis I'm a member of, I think I get e-mails for PMs here, and I'm often in the Pikipedia and NIWA IRC channels.
Thank you, I will keep it in mind
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Hi dkpat,
I can understand your point re fluctuating input, for my part i have been quite busy at Uni lately. Do like to contribute though, so will do my best to keep up with it, so its enjoyable rather than a chore,
Cheers :)
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Crud crud! Sorry for my lateness and lack of work here recently, but family, work and such have kept me quite busy so I can only devote myself to one wiki at a time! The Forgotten Beast reporting in on behalf of Starfy Wiki and Kid Icarus. Starfy Wiki is pretty solid on info although our user traffic is not very high and we keep getting a high degree of spam accounts... Kid Icarus Wiki is doing very well but it is also falling victim to many spam accounts, so I ask is there a way to increase our security?
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Crud crud! Sorry for my lateness and lack of work here recently, but family, work and such have kept me quite busy so I can only devote myself to one wiki at a time! The Forgotten Beast reporting in on behalf of Starfy Wiki and Kid Icarus. Starfy Wiki is pretty solid on info although our user traffic is not very high and we keep getting a high degree of spam accounts... Kid Icarus Wiki is doing very well but it is also falling victim to many spam accounts, so I ask is there a way to increase our security?
Indeed, something called Assira has been discussed above, and also on Skyworld.
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Crud crud! Sorry for my lateness and lack of work here recently, but family, work and such have kept me quite busy so I can only devote myself to one wiki at a time! The Forgotten Beast reporting in on behalf of Starfy Wiki and Kid Icarus. Starfy Wiki is pretty solid on info although our user traffic is not very high and we keep getting a high degree of spam accounts... Kid Icarus Wiki is doing very well but it is also falling victim to many spam accounts, so I ask is there a way to increase our security?
Indeed, something called Assira has been discussed above, and also on Skyworld.
How do we go about installing it?
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Send your webmaster/the nearest person with FTP access here (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Asirra), they should be able to take it from there.
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Crud crud! Sorry for my lateness and lack of work here recently, but family, work and such have kept me quite busy so I can only devote myself to one wiki at a time! The Forgotten Beast reporting in on behalf of Starfy Wiki and Kid Icarus. Starfy Wiki is pretty solid on info although our user traffic is not very high and we keep getting a high degree of spam accounts... Kid Icarus Wiki is doing very well but it is also falling victim to many spam accounts, so I ask is there a way to increase our security?
Indeed, something called Assira has been discussed above, and also on Skyworld.
How do we go about installing it?
In short, only Maxite has the access to do it, it's in his hands only.
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After a nearly year-long hiatus, it is my happy duty to report that the Lylat Wiki has returned, at http://www.starfoxwiki.info. While some things may still need repairs and adaptations (as we've also upgraded the mediawiki software from 1.16.x to 1.19.2), the site is largely operational... any bug issues can be fielded to tacopill, or myself. :)
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Thank everyone who's replied so far for some great check-ins! There is only a few of us who haven't replied yet and I'd like to track down a few of them. Does anyone have a way to contact Wars Wiki? The wiki itself has been left to spam bots... the remaining members I can get a hold of but I'm not sure how to contact Wars Wiki.
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Hello, this is Wraith (Peanut64) of Pikmin Fanon Wiki. I am a Bureaucrat there, and as far as I can see, activity has recessed recently. I personally have a heavy load to deal with but I try to maintain the site. There are some good contributors still but I don't expect to see much traffic until the release of Pikmin 3. In a nutshell, it's not much different than the usual activity. But I assure you, the users that frequent the wiki still do care, and I can foresee a comeback in the amount of users and quality of their content, come Pikmin 3.
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Bulbapedia has been quite busy lately with the recent English release of B2W2. A bit of downtime last week due to our hosing service, but everything is back to normal now. We've also been getting a lot of spambots registering for a while now, although since we have a small edit and time requirement before they can create mainspace articles or userpages they generally don't succeed in actually doing anything. It's actually not the reason we initially implemented those restrictions, but it's doing a very good job at dealing with them.
How's the Asirra system working out for you with the spambots?
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Hylian King here checking in for Zelda Wiki.
Activity is pretty much the same as always, if a bit higher now with the appearance of a few enthusiastic new users. For a while it was just me holding down the fort while the other active staff were busy, but now we seem to be back up to our regular 4-5 staff.
We've seen a recent spike in spam/vandalism, too. Also, since last week several accounts are being created by the same person (we're assuming that since all the usernames are similar) but aren't traceable to a specific IP address; only handfuls of them share the same IP. So far none of them have been used for editing.
Server problems have always been our #1 issue, but everything seems OK since our latest move to Windows Azure. Oh, and we haven't been able to upload .ogg files since March. But other than that everything's just peachy =)
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Can't upload ogg files? kinda odd... if you want, i could assist and figure out why, and hopefully fix that problem.
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That would be great, actually. Whenever we try to upload an .ogg, we get Error 500. Image files work fine, though.
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A bit late to the party, but better late than never! Checking in for Nookipedia as a Director there.
Going back a few months, throughout the summer and early fall, things had been rather slow-ish, but were still kind-of alive with usually one or two enthusiastic users active at any given time. To top it off, our forums suffered an almost month-long downtime, but that has since been fixed. The staff were not very active during this time, unfortunately, save for me and a few check-ins by others.
However, over the last couple of months, we've really seen activity and editing start to increase again with the arrival of the latest Animal Crossing game, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, which has been released in Japan, and is to be released in America/Europe/Australia in early 2013. The new game brings tons of information to add, along with players searching for information on the game, causing more people to visit Nookipedia, and as a result, join and edit. Editors have begun focusing their editing on the new game, and I introduced a "news" section to the frontpage of Nookipedia to provide updates and info on the new game, which visitors seem to enjoy.
Staff have also begun to come back and really become active again, including one of our most active and productive members who had gone on hiatus, and Jake, our other Director who is in charge of server maintenance, which is great; we can expect activity to continue to rise as the English release of the game comes closer and closer, and as a result, more members and staff. I've just introduced a "schedule" to Nookipedia's staff, where each staff member will be responsible for checking in on the wiki at least one day a week, which will ensure that a variety of staff are actively available on the wiki.
So yep. I'm pleased to say that everything is going well and picking up again :)
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That's wonderful news SuperHamster! Maybe one day you'll be a premier wiki like Bulbapedia, Smash Wiki, Zelda Wiki, Super Mario Wiki, and Strategy Wiki.