Re: Right... so what should we do with the wiki?
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 8:04 am
Well, i'm still here and i'm willing to restart the entire Wikifang project all over again. I agree with Kimbles that the pages aren't really that structured, and that's partly my fault because I've always been a list-kind of person (a person who likes organizing things into lists and stuff), and I agree the pages aren't interesting to read. I imagined Wikifang as a database of sorts, instead of a real information source, and well, I guess if you guys are still willing, we can work together to start it over again, rewrite the articles and stuff, reorganizing all the categories and restructuring templates.
Moving to our own server will allow a lot of customization and stuff, you can add in whatever Mediawiki plugins you want, instead of finding alternatives through javascript and whatnot, perhaps breaking compatibility in other browsers. On that note, I didn't really think anyone these days still used IE6, and such I didn't consider compatibility with IE6. Anyway, compatibility with IE6 is really a pain in the ***, so I apologize to Kimbles and other IE6 users. Oh and if RacieB could lend us the server space for the wiki, that would be great
If not i'll try finding free webhosts, which might work too.
I really want to see this work, since I've actually spent lots of time on Wikifang, and I'm sure the others have too. It's really quite sad if after 3 years it just dies because Wikia made every wiki change to the new skin, even though I don't think that's the real reason.
So, if enough people are still motivated enough we can do this all over again, like how it started a little more than 3 years ago. So who's up for it?
Moving to our own server will allow a lot of customization and stuff, you can add in whatever Mediawiki plugins you want, instead of finding alternatives through javascript and whatnot, perhaps breaking compatibility in other browsers. On that note, I didn't really think anyone these days still used IE6, and such I didn't consider compatibility with IE6. Anyway, compatibility with IE6 is really a pain in the ***, so I apologize to Kimbles and other IE6 users. Oh and if RacieB could lend us the server space for the wiki, that would be great

I really want to see this work, since I've actually spent lots of time on Wikifang, and I'm sure the others have too. It's really quite sad if after 3 years it just dies because Wikia made every wiki change to the new skin, even though I don't think that's the real reason.
So, if enough people are still motivated enough we can do this all over again, like how it started a little more than 3 years ago. So who's up for it?