MediaWiki talk:Community Portal
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This is the place for discussion of topics that affect the entire wiki. Some topics that would ordinarily be here have merited their own pages:
The move away from Wikia:
- Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Arriving
- Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Leaving
- Transformers Wiki:Community Portal/Complaints
Our policy on having ads in the wiki:
The Bookworm database-crash:
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So what now?
I brought this general line of questioning up over at the Allspark too, but that was really only because TFWiki.net was down at the time. Basically, in the wake of the Bookworm disaster, I'd like to know three things:
- How did this happen? All I know is that Bookworm updated the MediaWiki software, which caused... something... to happen to our data. The wiki was, what? Deleted? Corrupted? I don't know. But apparently this required a reversion to a backup, and the only available one was from June 2008. Why did that one even exist? Why not September? And, honestly, the "routine backups" made after September had all failed, with no one ever noticing? How did that happen?
- Has the backup process been fixed? This is pretty much the most important question of the moment. Every bit of our herculean recovery effort could vanish again if the June backup is still the only one on the server.
- Where are we going from here? Walky has said that he's looking for a new host, and he has asked for advice. I haven't seen much advice appear (maybe people have been communicating with him in private?), but if anyone has any suggestions, please air them. I wouldn't even know where to start, so I'm of little help.
- Jackpot 18:03, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
- Bookworm has explained to me what he thinks happened to the backups, but I couldn't begin to regurgitate that information. This stuff is not English for me. (Some would say English is not English for me.) It involves complicated server moves and DNS stuff, I think, and the bottom line is none of the backups were confirmed to have resulted in working backups; they were merely scheduled to be made, automatic-like, and resulted in, from what I understand, data being thrown into the ether, never sticking to anything. WHOOPS --ItsWalky 01:23, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
- All right, so does he have it working NOW? - Jackpot 02:02, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
