Technical Team

digraph "G" {

"inet_cloud" [ label = "internet" color = "gray" style = "filled" fillcolor = "gray" shape = "cloud" ]	subgraph cluster_0 { style=filled; color=lightgrey; width = "1.0" "seattle_box" [ label = "seattle.wikia.com" color = "black" width = "0.830000" fontsize = "15" fontname = "Times-Roman" fontcolor = "black" pos = "271,199" height = "0.350000" shape = "box" ]		label = "Squid Cache"; }       subgraph cluster_1 { style=filled; color=lightgrey; width = "1.0" "tampa_box" [ label = "tampa.wikia.com" color = "black" width = "1.030000" fontsize = "15" fontname = "Times-Roman" fontcolor = "black" pos = "300,137" height = "0.350000" shape = "box" ]		label = "Webserver"; }	subgraph "cluster_2" { style=filled; color=lightgrey; width = "2.0" "brussels_box" [ label = "brussels.wikia.com" color = "black" width = "0.750000" fontsize = "15" fontname = "Times-Roman" fontcolor = "black" pos = "300,75" height = "0.350000" shape = "box" ]

label = "Database" } subgraph cluster_3 { style=filled; color=lightgrey; width = "1.0" "ross_box" [ label = "ross.bomis.com" color = "black" width = "0.750000" fontsize = "15" fontname = "Times-Roman" fontcolor = "black" pos = "332,199" height = "0.350000" shape = "box" ]		label = "Mailing Lists"; }	"inet_cloud" -> "ross_box" [ fontsize = "14" fontname = "Times-Roman" fontcolor = "black" pos = "e,284,212 320,248 311,239 300,228 291,219" color = "black" ]	"inet_cloud" -> "seattle_box" [ fontsize = "14" fontname = "Times-Roman" fontcolor = "black" pos = "e,284,212 320,248 311,239 300,228 291,219" color = "black" ]	"seattle_box" -> "tampa_box" [ fontsize = "14" fontname = "Times-Roman" fontcolor = "black" pos = "e,291,150 276,186 279,178 283,168 287,159" color = "black" ]	"tampa_box" -> "brussels_box" [ fontsize = "14" fontname = "Times-Roman" fontcolor = "black" pos = "e,177,88 266,124 243,114 212,101 187,92" color = "black" ]	"ross_box" -> "brussels_box" [ fontsize = "14" fontname = "Times-Roman" fontcolor = "black" pos = "e,177,88 266,124 243,114 212,101 187,92" color = "black" label = "database slave" ]	}

Technical support for Wikicities is provided by Jason Richey Bugs and feature requests should be made at bugzilla.

There is a Wikicities IRC channel at #wikicities on freenode where you can ask questions.

See also: contact us, database download, reported bugs

Technical information about Wikicities
All Wikicities are hosted on dedicated Linux servers using squid cache acceleration for high performance.

The Wikia network is made up of four servers which run Wikicities and Memory Alpha. There is one Apache server (tampa), one MySQL server (brussels), and one squid cache (seattle). The fourth server (Ross) hosts all of our mailing lists and maintains a replica of the master database.

Hosting includes downloadable site backups, server administration, mailing lists, and site statistics. There is no limit to the size your Wikicity can be!

Wikicities operate on a shared-login system. This means you only need to create a username once, and you can edit any Wikicity. Note however that in all other regards, the software treats all projects as separate.

Largely advantages of separate projects
No pagename conflicts.

Differences that can be advantages or disadvantages
Separate per project are:
 * recent changes
 * status such as sysop
 * watchlist

Largely disadvantages of separate projects

 * Not possible across projects:
 * existence detection of a linked page
 * related changes
 * what links here
 * use of templates
 * use of categories
 * message alert
 * user contributions are separate
 * searching ditto

With the new email notification feature, the disadvantages of having separate watchlists, and not getting a "You have new messages" alert when viewing pages on another project, are more or less solved.