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Timo Tijhof

@Edent

It took a few years but....,
Go ahead and click on the 3D rendering in this article:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_of_

You can touch and drag interactively!

(Works on mobile too, though you'll have to click "Desktop" in the footer to see it on mobile.)

More in this category and it's parent categories:
commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.

en.wikipedia.orgLion of Al-lāt - Wikipedia
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pandorastalewiki

Today, I am announcing plans for the biggest change to Pandora's Tale Wiki since its founding: I am going to port the wiki away from MediaWiki and convert it to a git repository of text files. This conversion process may not be easy, but it is necessary. If we continue down the current path, I am going to burn out and will not be able to continue maintaining the wiki. I have described the reasons for the change in the article for Project: Texts About Pandora
https://pandorastale.wiki/wiki/Pandora%27s_Tale_Wiki:Texts_About_Pandora#Hosting_availability

(Yes, the name of the article is a pun on the pages "Texts from Pandora" and "Texts from Pandora 2".)
https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/texts-from-pandora/
https://comicsbyxan.com/comic/texts-from-pandora-2/

There are still some things I need to determine.

1) First and most significantly, I have to figure out how to convert a MediaWiki instance into a git repository. I've found several scripts which claim to do it, but they all seem to have significant drawbacks in addition to being unmaintained. I would greatly appreciate advice from computer creatures in this regard.

2) Then I have to decide on the text format: Plaintext, gemtext, or markdown? There are ups and downs to each of them, though I'm not as worried since I believe it might be possible to convert between them later.

3) Finally I have to decide on the hosting software and platform if I want anyone else to be able to read it. Gitlab, Forgejo, sourcehut, or something else?

Once I answer these questions, I am going to move Pandora's Tale Wiki to a git repository, and then I will ask Miraheze to shut down their copy of the wiki. I don't know how long this process will take, but I believe it's the only way I can continue the wiki.


#PandorasTale #PandorasTaleWiki #ComicsByXan #Webcomics #Homestuck #MSPaintAdventures #Miraheze #Wiki #Wikis #WebcomicWiki #MediaWiki #Git #PlainText #GemText #GeminiProtocol #Markdown #MD #SourceHut #srht #Forgejo #Gitlab

Pandora's Tale Wiki · Pandora's Tale Wiki:Texts About Pandora - Pandora's Tale WikiWhen I created Pandora's Tale Wiki in September 2022, I initially chose Fandom as a hosting platform. I chose Fandom based on expectations I had for how the wiki...
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There are only three new features I really want from MediaWiki.

1)Special:WhatLinksHere should federate with other wikis.

2)It should be easier for users without CSS to navigate and edit wikis.

3)Any time I want to do something that is hard to do in wiki markup, a new stable well-maintained extension should magically appear which makes it easy to do exactly what I am trying to do.

#MediaWiki

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2something

Almost every Wikipedia page has an infobox template which hard-depends on Lua 5.1. The last bugfix release for Lua 5.1 was version 5.1.5, released February 2012.

There's an issue about moving to a newer Lua version, open since 2017 with no recent visible progress.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178146

Which do y'all predict will come first?
#Poll #FediPoll #MediaWiki #Wikipedia #Lua

· 37 votes ·
phabricator.wikimedia.org⚓ T178146 Add support for a newer Lua version than Lua 5.1 to luasandbox
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183231bcb

I have a MediaWiki question!

I frequently find myself needing to do the following:
a)Add a page to Category X, where X is dependent on a parameter
b)Add Category X to Category Y, where Y is dependent on the same parameter as part (a)
c)Add Category X to Category Z, which is not dependent on a parameter.

I can automate the first step using a simple template that contains [[Category:Something with my parameter]], but I want help automating the next two steps.

I realize I'm maybe being a bit vague, so let me clarify with a concrete example (the example that inspired this question).

When @comicsbyxan published Chapter 11 of Pandora's Tale, I made the corresponding wiki article. The chapter was the first appearance of new character Amelia, so I wanted to
* List in the chapter article that it was the first appearance of Amelia.
* Include the chapter article in Category:Amelia appearances
* Include Category:Amelia appearances in Category:Amelia
* Include Category:Amelia appearances in Category:Chapters by character appearances

The first two bullet points I can do simultaneously, thanks to the simple "appearances" template.. I just add

{a|Amelia}
To the article on Chapter 11. But I have to do the third and fourth bullet point manually. While that's not a big deal to do once, I have to do it for every new character Xan adds to the comic. Chapter 10 introduced nine new characters at once, so I had to do it nine times.

Is there a way to soup up my {a} template so that when I type, for example, {a|Example New Character}, it automatically creates a page for Category:Example New Character appearances and includes it in both Category:Example New Character and Category:Chapters by character appearances ? Is this the kind of thing I should to learn Lua Modules for or is there a way to do it purely with wiki markup?

The hard part seems to be that I want to invoke a template in one article and have it modify a different page. I haven't found any wiki functions that can do that.

UPDATE 2
I fixed it!
Here's the code that makes it work
[[{{{1}}}]][[Category:{{{1}}} appearances]]{{#if:{{{new|}}}|{{#createpageifnotex:
Category:{{{1}}} appearances
|<nowiki>[[Category:</nowiki>{{{1}}}<nowiki>]][[Category:Chapters by character appearances]]</nowiki>
}}|}}


#MediaWiki #Wiki #Miraheze #Wikis #TechHelp #TechQuestions #PandorasTale #PandorasTaleWiki #Lua #Scribunto

RE: https://transfem.social/notes/a12wxwqpigwk00vv
Pandora's Tale · Chapter 11 front coverVisit the post for more.
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Soheb

Over the past 5 years, I've seem a lot of videogame communities use Fandom as their wiki hosting page. I beg you - please stop using Fandom!!

It's absolutely dreadful to view on mobile/desktop, the ads are out of control, and Fandom will always try to pull your readers away from the current wiki to read some other nonsense.

It's awful. Stick with MediaWiki hosting.

weirdgloop.org/blog/why-were-h

Weird Gloop · Why we’re helping more wikis move away from FandomHi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopefully!) really dig. I also love that it got started because one of the Riot guys plays a ton of Old School RuneScape and thinks our wiki is awesome. How cool is that?? I want this to kick off a new era where communities and developers take control from Fandom, and make some really great wikis. We’ve already been doing a bit of this, starting when we helped the Minecraft Wiki leave Fandom, but I think it’s time for me (and the rest of our group) to be more explicit about what we want to do.
#wiki#mediawiki#fandom
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Shauna GM

Oh jeez, I completely forgot last week. Gonna set a reminder.

This week's #FossFriday #FlossFriday shout out is a three-for - three open source projects for knowledge management that I've tried out over the last year or so: MediaWiki, Outline, and Logseq.

#MediaWiki - the software that runs Wikipedia. A huge community ecosystem offers lots of help and customization. Great for collaboration & versioning, though both UX and devX have significant learning curves: mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

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