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Membership and Affiliate Requests / Re: Layton Wiki

« on: December 12, 2011, 11:25:28 PM »

On the European/Australia/US title differences: If we get advanced hosting, I might be able to get an extension which swaps out one title for another depending on what language you set yourself.

I should be able to help you set that up if you get advanced hosting, if you'd like.

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Wiki References / Re: Web Hosting Features

« on: November 11, 2011, 03:15:01 AM »

All of those you mentioned:

• FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is needed to be able to upload files to the server. If you've no access to FTP, you can't upload the MediaWiki files to the server, add/remove extensions, change settings in the LocalSettings.php file, etc. To access this, you need an FTP client, such as FileZillla. Your hosting provider should give you the FTP login details when you buy.
• PHP is the programming language the MediaWiki software is written in. Your server must support PHP 5.2.3 or better (but not 5.3.1), or you can't run MediaWiki. On your own computer, you'll need a text editor, capable of editing PHP scripts without breaking them. Notepad does this, but most people use source code editors like Notepad++ or Programmer's Notepad, which have features designed to make coding clearer and easier. Using rich text editors like Microsoft Word and Wordpad may work, but it's safest to avoid them.
• MySQL is database software. The database stores all the editable content of a wiki, outside of the software and extensions, i.e. article content, users' details, etc. Your server must support either MySQL 4.0+, PostgreSQL 8.1+, or SQLite 3+ (MySQL is recommended for optimum compatibility).
• cPanel is a graphical user interface for controlling the more technical aspects of a web server, such as what software is enabled, which subdomains are registered, your account details, viewing the database tables, and so on. It may also offer you a MediaWiki auto installer, but it's always more reliable to do the job yourself. You may or may not use it often, but it's usually provided as standard with any hosting.

Other features you may want:

• ImageMagick or GD is needed for image thumbnailing.
• PHP shell access is needed if you ever need to run maintenance scripts for upgrading MediaWiki, installing certain extensions, etc.
• Sendmail is required for the e-mail system to work.

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The Lounge / Re: What are you playing now?

« on: October 15, 2011, 11:28:46 PM »

Xenoblade Chronicles

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The Lounge / Re: NIWA Community Thread 2011

« on: September 29, 2011, 01:11:00 PM »

Nah, we're fine up here.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: Zelda Wiki is Down Again

« on: September 22, 2011, 03:55:21 AM »

The wiki's back up, albeit slow to load (for me anyway), editing is disabled, and there are some slight errors.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: Zelda Wiki is Down Again

« on: September 15, 2011, 02:11:45 PM »

Yeah, I can't access it either; I'm getting 403 Forbidden errors.

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NIWA Discussion / F-Zero Wiki

« on: July 24, 2011, 03:36:29 AM »

Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to finally be able to publicly reveal the latest independent Nintendo wiki project, the one you've been waiting for: The F-Zero Wiki, brought to you by Mute City.org. Our plan is to hopefully expand the wiki into a full F-Zero fansite, with forums and other features. The wiki is another ex-Wikia project, and has undergone fine-tuning with members of NIWA staff prior to the public launch. Please pay the wiki a visit at http://mutecity.org/wiki , and feel free to help us out in any way you can. All help would be much appreciated!

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Pandora's Tower

« on: July 05, 2011, 03:15:02 AM »

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/27061

Coming to us folks across the pond next year.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: A new Nintendo console at E3?

« on: May 26, 2011, 10:12:07 PM »

why is my project cafe topic getting deleted all the time?

Because this topic was created first, and serves exactly the same purpose. There's no need to have two topics on the same thing.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA IRC talks

« on: May 10, 2011, 12:07:13 AM »

On N-Wiki, we can set up Extension:WebChat, which is a special page that acts as an IRC client for those who don't have one, and it can automatically join #NIWA.

Implementing this. The chat does exist; it's just that very few people actually visit it.

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Wiki References / Re: Guides for setting up a wiki

« on: May 01, 2011, 01:42:15 AM »

Use $wgGroupPermissions in LocalSettings.php, like this:

$wgGroupPermissions['group']['right'] = true;

For example, these give patrollers the ability to patrol and rollback edits, and have their own edits automatically patrolled:

$wgGroupPermissions['patrol']['patrol'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['patrol']['rollback'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['patrol']['autopatrol'] = true;

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Golden Sun / Re: Dark Dawn

« on: April 08, 2011, 07:39:50 AM »

Definitely not as good as the originals.  The game was too easy, especially the boss battles. I beat the game in less than 30 hours on my first playthrough, which I couldn't do with the originals no matter how many times I'd played them. I didn't like the points-of-no-return either.

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The Lounge / Re: What are you playing now?

« on: April 07, 2011, 09:14:35 PM »

Pokémon Black.

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Wiki References / Re: Guides for setting up a wiki

« on: April 06, 2011, 04:29:15 PM »

Aren't admin name and wiki name normally fields in the page you're asked to fill out?  They were the last time I installed a wiki, at any rate.

Yes, they are. Though the actual MediaWiki installer is a lot different from the "installer" that appears on most wiki farms. Logo, extensions, etc. aren't set at installation, though I think the logo might be one of the settings added to the installer for 1.17, for which it's being completely rewritten.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: WiKirby Owner and Founder, Axiomist, has passed away

« on: March 20, 2011, 01:36:13 PM »

Without him, I probably wouldn't be here, like many others. He will be missed. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: Strategy Wiki's new skin messing up.

« on: March 13, 2011, 07:28:09 PM »

Which specific version of Internet Explorer are you using? If you're using IE6, there's not really anything that can be done (even Microsoft themselves are asking people not to use IE6). IE7 isn't much better. The best advice is really just to not use IE at all, unless you must, since it isn't compatible with many web design standards seen in other browsers, that are widely used across the Internet.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: Someone trying to log in my account but failing?

« on: March 10, 2011, 08:00:25 AM »

www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=416928.msg2960115#msg2960115#msg2960115

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NIWA Discussion / Re: Strategy Wiki's new skin messing up.

« on: March 04, 2011, 03:43:53 AM »

Internet Explorer... You could use much better, such as Firefox or Chrome, but since IE is so widely used, this may be a problem. I'll mention it to Prod when I see him online.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: Strategy Wiki's new skin messing up.

« on: March 03, 2011, 04:53:50 PM »

I haven't noticed any problems. Have you tried clearing your cache? What exactly is going wrong?

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NIWA Discussion / Re: Kid Icarus fans

« on: February 18, 2011, 07:26:37 PM »

From what I gather from the Join NIWA page on the Hub, Wikkii, advanced hosting or not, is not classed as an independent host. I may be wrong, but I personally wouldn't call Wikkii's "advanced hosting" independent. It's still hosted by a wiki farm, after all.

So, if you're not willing to pay for hosting, the best option is really to merge to Wicarus. I'd love to see an independent Kid Icarus wiki join, but Wikkii doesn't truly offer independence. They may seem much better than Wikia now, but they still own the wikis, and if they wanted to, they could close down their advanced hosting, and you wouldn't have any say in it.