Rimworld Wiki! (old thread)

[enystrom8734]

Im going to try and help out with the new wiki as much as possible. Now that I have a little more time available

[Tynan]

Thank you Nystrom! Let me know if you need anything.

[enystrom8734]

Before I headed off to bed, I would have liked to see a better from page. So I copied basically what the wikia front page had for the most part...

Looks a little better!

I just cant change the logo! lol

[Tynan]

I'll fix up the logo soon. If you need any super-user privileges that I can bestow let me know.

[enystrom8734]

That might help. Ill try not to break anything

[British]

I'm there as well, will work on it as I get some free time.

[enystrom8734]

I think I figured out the best way to move from wikia. Super-User privs would be nice at this point. So whenever you get the time I can make it happen!

[British]

That's what I tried last time, and as I mentionned in some post in this thread, it didn't go too well.
I have a full export ready now, though, waiting for Tynan to wake up... literally ?

[Tynan]

British and Nystrom, you guys are now Bureaucrats (that's the highest privileged MW user).

[Tynan]

When I get home in a couple days I'll set the logo; I have no image editor right now.

[enystrom8734]

Ok sweet. Its looking like we may need to install a few extensions to get what we would like for the layout and formatting of the Wiki. I think we are going to spend quite a bit of time in setup before content is really being added.

British, a full export, even though nice. Might actually not really be worth it. It might make more sense to just copy the pages over and edit them on the fly. I installed a local copy of mediawiki and imported the wikia. There was a lot of stuff to fix after importing. Might work better to just "start from scratch" considering there isn't that many pages. A lot of the info can be copy/pasted.

[British]

Yes, but I suspect it will be a PITA to fix even without an import.
What would be ideal is to have the same templates as on Wikia... or at least a way to make them just about the same.

[enystrom8734]

I did some research and found that there is ways of essentially "importing" wikia to a mediawiki installation. They do have custom extesions though and it would involve asking them nicely if we can have a copy.

On the other hand. It might be easier to import wikipedia templates that are similar to wikias. One way or another, additional extensions ARE required.

[Tynan]

Just let me know if you need anything from me.

I'm going to see about creating other users with FTP access.

[Tynan]

I made you guys users and sent you the details.