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Shorter replies than Proy's are welcome, too.
Maarten, nothing will be lost if we keep a copy of the old forum somewhere. An "archive to static" operation would be perfect.
Car wrote:We also need to clean the user database again, surely all those spammers we banned a long time ago can't be too good for it?
hashi wrote:What I would want to know is, after transferral of all the data, is there a way to possibly merge the members from one site to another that you guys know of? My coding skills are not skilled enough to be able to create that kind of bridge unfortunately. Otherwise, if it is easier from the source code side of things just to have two separate registrations, that works too.
The second issue, is after transferral of data, I would need some people to help clean it up and rearrange it all. (Such people would be given the necessary permissions in the WL wiki to do so).
What do you think of the idea?
Hashi
hashi wrote:As I understand it, the UniLang (UL) Wiki is grossly out of date and poorly managed resulting in an unusable portion of UL with so many great resources being brushed aside.
About 2 years ago, I started a site called WikiLang (WL), which was supposed to be a collaborative language Wiki - similar to that of the UL wiki. Accompanying this was a forum. However, both of these have since become quite unused and also covered in spam. This is a shame as like the UL wiki, there is a lot of information on there which is going unused.
What I want to suggest, is that I can remove the unused parts of the site I created, and reinstall a fresh Wiki software (without all the branding of the current site)
and transfer all the wiki data from my wiki, as well as UL's wiki to this one place. The idea would be, UL could point to the WL wiki instead of its own wiki, and WL could point to the UL forums instead of its own forums. I hope this makes sense.
What I would want to know is, after transferral of all the data, is there a way to possibly merge the members from one site to another that you guys know of? My coding skills are not skilled enough to be able to create that kind of bridge unfortunately. Otherwise, if it is easier from the source code side of things just to have two separate registrations, that works too.
The second issue, is after transferral of data, I would need some people to help clean it up and rearrange it all. (Such people would be given the necessary permissions in the WL wiki to do so).
What do you think of the idea?
[/quote]Abavagada wrote:Car, a StopForumSpam mod needs to be implemented to the forum. This checks new members against a known database of spammers when they try to register and won't allow them. It can also be used to check the current members and get rid of the known spam bots as well.
Edit: Here is a link: http://support.prophpbb.com/topic2572.html
It looks like phpbb might not support the lookup of existing members, but this is a start.
Tenebrarum wrote:I would appreciate being able to upload a few materials for Vietnamese (and for other people to upload other languages too don't you think?), but don't know if that's still supported.
Abavagada wrote:I don't know if there a phpbb<>Wikimedia bridge. If there is, I doubt it would work across domains. I know there is an SMF<>Wikimedia bridge, but even that one is a bit iffy, requiring you to create a specific member group on the forum and have the Wiki allow members of that group access to the wiki. I wouldn't propose such a tying of databases anyways until the spam members situation in the current UL DB is resolved.
As for cleaning it up, do you still have any active members of the Wikilang developers that could aid in that?
proycon wrote:I made a custom kind of bridge. Whenever somebody registers at the forum, the necessary records are added to the mediawiki tables as well. This only works for new users as the passwords are obviously hashed, and hashed differently. Perhaps it's also worth investigating whether MediaWiki and phpbb3 support something like OpenID or OAuth for authentication.
proycon wrote:I like it!
*signs up as a volunteer* (I hope we get on it soon, I'll basically have little free time once July comes!)The second issue, is after transferral of data, I would need some people to help clean it up and rearrange it all. (Such people would be given the necessary permissions in the WL wiki to do so).
Just to be sure, is it from the UL wiki to the WLBeta wiki, or from both the UL wiki and the WL wiki to the WLBeta wiki?hashi wrote:The first stage of the work will be done (unless anyone has a better suggestion) by a simple copy and paste from the UL wiki to the WLBeta wiki (I have set up the domain at http://beta.langwiki.info/ - just need to upload and install the MediaWiki script). I was planning to work from the list of all pages on UL and the list of all pages on WL.
I vote transferring them all without asking. Well, except the ones like Allun, Azjherben or Campe which have essentially nothing). I see most of them don't actually have that much content, so maybe I could merge them into a single article when transferring them.A further question regarding this, is do we want to retain any of the conlanger pages? Or should a choice be given to anyone who wants to keep it to transfer it to the WL wiki within a deadline before the UL wiki is closed off?
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