Forum:Moveing a Wiki?

I am getting a server for the Star Wars Combine Wiki and was wondering if i could move it to my new Server. Can i do that or not?

--WillSWC 19:19, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm thinking of doing something similar in the future to. All I know is you can download a data dump of the site. But I don't know if it can be used to migrate a wiki because of the issue that the users it has information about for page historys aren't on the new wiki. I'd think it would cause some serious errors with the user table. I'm hoping that when we move I can request a MySQL dump of a small portion of the user table and one or two other tables. Dantman (Talk) 22:39, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

I dont see why not...Wouldnt take to long. --WillSWC 22:51, 19 September 2006 (UTC)


 * MediaWiki downloads are only available in XML, but there's a script to convert that to SQL if needed. If you're moving to another MediaWiki site, you're better off importing the XML version anyway. But... why are you leaving? :'(
 * I'd rather you didn't. Come and talk to me about it at w:c:compedia:User talk:Angela. Even if you leave, it doesn't mean Wikia will necessarily stop hosting a wiki on that topic since there may be other users (now or in future) who want to continue editing here. Angela (talk) 14:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

The only reason i would move to my own server would be 1. Edit a couple .php files to add a WYSIWYG Mod i found and 2. TO remove the Banner ads. Really thats the only reason. Wikia has been a great service and have still not decided if i will do that. --WillSWC 17:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I've got plans for many hacks. I have a title hack that allows for customization of the way the title looks so I have the NPC, Item, and Map namespace titles looking differently (Item is blue without the Item: showing, Map is green without the Map: showing, and NPC is red with a "[NPC] " instead of NPC:), I also have other hacks for the system, and many helpfull extensions that I plan to implement. In addition I am considering expanding from just the Gaiapedia, to also include wiki style hosting for people who make tools for the site, and a Gaia Listings for Guild, Profile, Journal listings. I'd show you some of the ways I've already hacked MediaWiki to work but they are on a special instalation on my personal computer not a server. It's just there are some types of limits you can't get past with wikia. Dantman (Talk) 20:51, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I also had a hack for a static sidebar by turning most of it into Java. Thing is the Wikia advert toolbar is to long and you cant see the bottem of it where they feature a Wiki. Rather annoying really so i had to take it off. --WillSWC 21:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Javasript you mean... I'm actualy talking about system hacks instead of simple customization. I built a title hack and publicided in on meta. But you half to edit a line in includes/SkinTemplate.php for it to work. It's quite simple, but hacks don't work for being added to wikia because of the workload they would cause. I also have a set of 4 instalations of mediawiki hacked together so they share the same /includes, /extensions, /languages, and /skins folders. They are hacked to share the same users, and a there are a set of permissions that are properly shared between all of the wikis. The interwiki table is also shared, and the poll system, (I'm actualy thinking of building a new one for myself though). Dantman (Talk) 22:06, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Angelina has done a great job at helping me regarding this and it appears we will be staying. The only other reason i could even think of leaving would be the limited and slightly annoying fact that you dont have admin on wiki's and thus cant control the posts very well though i get why they did that. --WillSWC 01:46, 22 September 2006 (UTC)