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Membership and Affiliate Requests / Re: New Alliance Requests
« on: December 09, 2011, 02:31:15 AM »
Joining and affiliating are two different things.  SEIWA would affiliate only.  DQ Wiki could join because it is now a Nintendo-only franchise.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA Stats
« on: November 28, 2011, 09:31:00 PM »
Wiki NameAverage Posts Per WeekPercentageChange
Bulbapedia4069.134.80%-1.17%
Donkey Kong180.15%-37.72%
Fire Emblem135.31.16%+188.49%
Golden Sun83.30.71%+32.64%
Lylat Wiki180.15%+33.33%
Mario 365831.29%+9.05%
Metroid237.32.03%+62.76%
Nintendo39.20.34%-15.15%
Nookipedia1261.08%+30.03%
Pikmin48.80.42%+57.42%
Pikmin Fanon76.10.65%+33.74%
Smash Wiki863.87.39%+3.64%
Starfy 15.20.13%-38.46%
Strategy Wiki546.94.68%+9.23%
Wars6.10.05%-37.76%
Wikibound1711.46%-4.09%
WiKirby56.20.48%-28.13%
Zelda1523.413.03%-9.20%
Total11691.7100.00%+3.43%
Date11/28/2011


Edit: Made easier to read, added % of change from last update.  

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NIWA Discussion / Re: NIWA Stats
« on: November 09, 2011, 01:50:11 PM »
Yeah, Google doesn't keep stats for feeds which are not followed by someone in Google Reader. So a little over a week ago I added all of the feeds and this is the result.  The values will obviously normalize the longer that the feeds are followed, but writing a script to do it manually would certainly be much more accurate.  

Edit: Also, you would need to make the script run multiple times daily.  The $wgFeedLimit is by default set to 50, so you would need to visit often to not miss updates.  Bulbapedia typically has over 500 a day.

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NIWA Discussion / NIWA Stats
« on: November 08, 2011, 03:27:30 PM »
Using Google Reader, here are some NIWA stats.  Note that these are taken from the recent changes feeds of each wiki and are bound to have differences, config settings, etc that skew the data.

SiteChanges per weekPercentage of total
Bulbapedia4117.436.43%
Mario3354.429.68%
Zelda1677.714.84%
Smash Wiki833.57.37%
Strategy500.74.43%
WikiBound178.31.58%
Metroid145.81.29%
Nookipedia96.90.86%
WiKirby78.20.69%
Golden Sun62.80.56%
Pikmin Fanon56.90.50%
Fire Emblem46.90.41%
Nintendo46.20.41%
Pikipedia310.27%
Donkey Kong28.90.26%
Starfy24.70.22%
Lylat 13.50.12%
Wars Wiki9.80.09%
NIWA Total11303.6100.00%

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Wiki References / Re: Using jQuery with Mediawiki
« on: November 02, 2011, 03:35:05 PM »
Yeah I changed it back to clicks and it feels more normal.  The downside to using tabs in general is that the printable versions of articles do not show all of the information on the page.  Seems like I would need to modify the Mediawiki PHP code to do something special in that case. 


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Wiki References / Re: Using jQuery with Mediawiki
« on: October 31, 2011, 01:30:21 PM »
To answer your other question, the old Tabber extension did not allow spaces in the tab names.  Since converting over, I have not gone back and changed those pages to remove the spaces.  I would assume that jQuery would have no problem with it.

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Wiki References / Re: Using jQuery with Mediawiki
« on: October 31, 2011, 12:38:20 AM »
Excellent suggestions.  Yeah there are plenty of spots where jQuery can be used to make things more simple.  I put the tabs on mouse over, but really it is just an experiment to see if that would be better than requiring a click. 

VersionTabs definitely isn't a work of art, but I don't think there is anything potentially dangerous about it.

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Wiki References / Using jQuery with Mediawiki
« on: October 29, 2011, 01:56:11 AM »
While I'm still waiting for any kind of response in the membership forum....

jQuery is included with Mediawiki 1.16 and newer.  In 1.17, you can load portions of the jQuery UI library on demand in your Common.js file as part of the ResourceLoader portions of Mediawiki. 

There are a lot of uses for jQuery within the wiki pages.  For example, a couple of the NIWA wikis use the Tabber extension (or at least include it).  However, jQuery has its own tabs you can use instead to save on performance. 

I've been experimenting with using the jQuery tabs and ways to include video content on wiki articles without it becoming too cluttered.

http://dragon-quest.org/wiki/Tantegel
http://dragon-quest.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js

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Membership and Affiliate Requests / Re: New Alliance Requests
« on: October 19, 2011, 07:15:22 PM »
All,

I would like to go ahead and formally request that our wiki be considered for membership in NIWA.  I believe that we fulfill all of the requirements listed in the membership doc.  We have been independent for almost a year now and I feel that we have progressed to the point where an alliance would be beneficial.  The Dragon Quest community is small, but stable.  I feel that we could contribute positively to NIWA.

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Wiki References / Re: Wiki Spammers
« on: October 04, 2011, 07:53:53 PM »
In case anyone is ever curious or has a similar problem, here is how I solved our issues.  I'm not sure if they were bots or just human spammers, but they were creating new accounts, supplying an email address, and then verifying the email link.  That means that they were 'emailconfirmed' users, making it hard to limit their privileges without effecting other normal users. 

The issue was that these spammers were using "throw away" email addresses to register.  MediaWiki does not currently have any standard protection against this.  I was able to stop them by adding the following to LocalSettings.php.

Code: [Select]
$wgHooks['AbortNewAccount'][] = 'noMailinator';

function noMailinator( $user, $message ) {
if( preg_match( '/@(mailinator|binkmail|zippymail|devnullmail|mailinator2|bobmail|safetymail|tradermail|thisisnotmyrealemail|suremail|spamherelots|dispostable)/i', $user->getEmail() )) {
$message = 'One-time-use email services are forbidden on the Dragon Quest Wiki';
return false;
}
return true;
}


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Wiki References / Re: Configuring MediaWiki Feeds
« on: October 04, 2011, 07:50:07 PM »
*crickets*

There has to be a simple solution to this.  For example, the DK wiki, Nookipedia, and Wikia all have diffs in their feeds.  However, Bulbapedia and others do not.  I guess I'll post the answer when I figure it out myself.

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Wiki References / Wiki Spammers
« on: September 22, 2011, 03:18:33 PM »
Recently we have had some problems with wiki spammers.  So far, I haven't been able to stop them altogether. 

The spammers create an account, then upload an image and create a page with spam that contains the image.  It's usually nothing vulgar, just random junk.  I tightened up the permissions and made more privileges required a confirmed email address.  However, I found that the spammers were using legit 'throw away' email addresses and confirming the accounts. 

They are most likely bots, but they most be somewhat complex to be giving an email address and then confirming it.  The IP addresses come from all over.  I've moved more privs into 'autoconfirmed' but I'm not sure how to stop them.   Any other wikis had problems?

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Wiki References / Configuring MediaWiki Feeds
« on: September 20, 2011, 09:07:44 PM »
Anyone know anything about configuring mediawiki feeds (RSS/Atom)? 

I think it would be useful to put more information in the recent changes feed.  Then you wouldn't have to go to the diff page to see what was changed.  However, it looks like I will have to dig into the mediawiki source since the only configuration is for feed types, etc.

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NIWA Discussion / Re: Zelda Wiki is Down Again
« on: September 19, 2011, 03:01:36 PM »
Down for a week?  Yikes.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: DQX is MMO
« on: September 10, 2011, 03:30:15 AM »
Well, I'm willing to let them give it a shot.  Online for Dragon Quest IX was really a big failure in the U.S.  I've been dying to play a DQ game with other fans for years.  I just would prefer that I didn't "have to". 

Really I wish it were just like DQIX's multiplayer, only it uses wifi instead of just the local DS wireless.

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Hi PkNess, welcome to the NIWA forums.  Let me share some things that might be helpful to you.

The requirements for affiliation are listed here: http://www.niwanetwork.org/join.php.  Your site must meet them in order to be considered.  Right now your site does not meet many of these. 

However, the best thing  you can do is to start growing your wiki.  Learn about mediawiki and start making edits.  Try to build a community at your new site so that your site will grow.  Best of luck!  :)

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Your Favorite Nintendo Game
« on: August 07, 2011, 05:25:41 AM »
Star Tropics, now that takes me back!  I remember I could beat chapter 2 of that game and then I could never get further hehe.

Hmmm, things like favorite Nintendo game tends to change over time.  Here is my chronological list.

Legend of Zelda
LoZ: Link to the Past
Super Mario 64
LoZ: Ocarina of Time
LoZ: Twilight Princess

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Wiki References / Re: Best MediaWiki Hosts
« on: August 04, 2011, 05:44:38 PM »
Nice.  Thanks for posting that.  I didn't realize you could so easily do a look up.  All those scented soy candles must be slowing down the wiki hehe.  I've been messing with the profiler, which is pretty nice.  It tells the same story: most page loads are less than half a second, others can be 2-7 seconds.  

For those of you using static file caching for visitors, did you configure your mod_rewrite to go directly to the static pages?  It is described here:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgFileCacheDepth

I'm definitely considering a jump to Linode in the future.  All of the flexibility it offers is really appealing.  

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Wiki References / Re: Best MediaWiki Hosts
« on: August 04, 2011, 03:44:17 PM »
Ok, things are getting a bit clearer now.  Yes, I've been reading the Mediawiki pages on performance tuning.  Too bad pretty much all of the options are not available at my current host. :(

This pretty much sums up hostgator's policy on PHP accelerators:
http://support.hostgator.com/articles/pre-sales-policies/is-it-possible-to-install-ioncube-php-accelerator-on-shared-server

I put all of my jobs queue on a cron a long time ago.  I enabled file caching, but that really only helps visitors to the site, not logged in users.  I turned on logging, but have yet to see any thing of significance.  I guess I could post the log file here.  I haven't tried using the mediawiki profiler either.

I seem to get only intermittent delays though.  Sometimes the pages load fast, sometimes really slow.  Hmmm.

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