Hey everyone, we're going to be pushing a big update to the wikis this Sunday (8/14) starting at noon. They will be largely unavailable and read only until Monday (8/15). This update is so we can have some of the latest MediaWiki software and possibly get some desired extensions for us in the future. It will hopefully help with some performance issues we've been having too.

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Wyrom, PM

Seconded!

Doug

And I guess that is because I somehow had him on ignore :/

If the server isn't on PHP 7 yet it's worth considering. Minimal to no BC breaks with PHP 5.5 and a literal double speed increase in the majority of web applications. Also, MediaWiki is pretty popular software so the PHP 7 support is likely already there.

Looking fairly good so far - including the search function! Yay.

Checking to see if the math functions are in play, too - but like what I'm seeing so far, even if bookmarks / references need to be updated.

Doug

Ok, log-in fails with lowercase (used to convert to upper case, but not so much anymore).

To log in, keep in mind at the moment both USERNAME and PASSWORD are case sensitive, and the existing account is very likely ALL CAP.

Math extensions aren't enabled as yet.

Doug

Whomever is in charge of your wiki update needs to put a 301 redirect on the site for all old links. All google search result links and links posted in forums are going to https://gswiki.play.net/Mediawiki/index.php/BlahBlah they need a redirect to https://gswiki.play.net/BlahBlah

People think the wiki is down, but it's because they are going to the old url's that aren't redirecting. This would keep all your google juice flowing as well and make it so you don't lose your rankings for google searches when people are looking for info.

It should only take about 30 seconds to do, one line in the htaccess, so easy peasy :P

The redirect is now live. Bookmarks and Google search results rejoice!

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Wyrom, PM