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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yeah, I noticed it was getting a little slow to load. I was almost afraid to touch it least it break ... almost http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ December 11, 2002, 21:53: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

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Ho do you 'move' an encyclopedia from the Wiki site? Does it produce a 'package' of some sort or do you have to manually download the pages and set them up? I thought Wiki was there to provide the various information soures created on it. Is it only supposed to be an 'editing' system and most people copy the finished product off of it?

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Baron, "Wiki" is just a freeware software package that people can load on their servers. There is no centralized database of all wiki encyclopedias or anything. The SE4 wiki currently is on Laz's personal web server, which IIRC has a lower bandwith than the PBW server.

Geoschmo

[ December 11, 2002, 23:44: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

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Actually, my web server probably has significantly higher bandwidth than the PBW server (because it's hosted, and has burstable badnwidth). I think the main reason for moving it to the PBW server would be to have a centralized, more memorable location for it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Eric

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{BUMP}

I'm bumping up this original mention of the Encyclopedia Malfadorica because I often link to it -- and people seem to think I wrote it or something, and that's not true at all. Credit where credit is due. Check out some early Posts.

OT: Oh, /. says the the original Wikkipedia has now surpassed 100,000 articles. I'm starting to use that more and more. Which may not be a good thing.

[ January 23, 2003, 15:07: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

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Hoo... wierd. Just looked at the "recent visitors" page, where everyone has listed when they first made changes to the Malfadorica. Here are the dates:

Lazarus Long: 25 October 2002.
Suicide Junkie: 26 October 2002.
TerranC: 26 Octobre 2002.
GeoSchmo: 25 October 2002.
Dogscoff: 27th October 2002.
EdKolis: 28 October 2002.
KrsQk: November 22, 2002.
ArkCon: November 28, 2002
GrowlTigga: 27 February 2003 (actually 'Tig, it's the 28th)

Anyway, all 9 dates are in the Last week of the month. What are the odds of that happening by chance?

There must be something about the end of the month that compels people to join the Malfadorica crew. Something about the phases of the moon maybe? omething about payday that inspires us with an urge to be generous with information?

Spooky...

[ February 28, 2003, 16:46: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

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See TC dust off thread. See TC bump up thread. See TC Grinning.

The Encyclopedia Malfadorica is now a year old!

Everybody, Let's celebrate by adding/editing/contributing more to it!

TC blows a noisemaker in front of everyone.

[ October 26, 2003, 02:49: Message edited by: TerranC ]

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*drops two tons of popcorn everywhere.*

i didn't even know there was a thread for it.

[ October 27, 2003, 21:16: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Aw now see ... it had to start somewhere. Nice to see the name LazarusLong on the top page again.

I link to the Encyclopedia Malfadorica often in my Posts. (No really) People sometimes think I wrote it ... and want to know what I can do to speed up access when it gets slow. (Huh What Who me?)

So credit where credit is due. Read this thread.

Stop by. Click some links. Do a fuzzy search for a random word. Pick a topic and see what links to it ... do that repeatedly until you've been all over the place. And most importantly, fill in some holes.

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blows kazoo *Tweet*

*Ahem*

Happy 2nd Birthday to the Encyclopedia Malfadorica.

There's lots of new stuff there, SJ is using it as a central location for some crucial information about SE4 by Committee. I created a table of contents just for that info in particular {here}. Or you can always just try a {random page.}

[EDIT]

I forgot to mention -- fill in some dead links if you can.

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Yaay!

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Yaaay!

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Wow, the Malfadorica seems to be fixed!

Yayyy! I can start entering all my wierd random crap again. Happy joy.

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Huh? It was broken at some point?

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It has been down for quite some time, I had written it off...

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Actually I'm pretty sure it's never been down. What happens is there is something funny about the way links to it work. If you click a link to it once, you get an error page. If you then click the same link, or even just hit refresh, the page comes up. Someone posted around here what causes it, but I can't remember what it is.

Of course there might have been the occasional actual short down time now and again, like with all websites. But no extended outages.

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Yeah, what Geo said. Initially you'd get a cryptic error page, but refresh would restore normal operation. Today I went straight in. WHether that has anything to do with switching to firefox since Last using the Malfadorica, I don't know. I guess I could spark up IE and test, but you know I'm not sure I can be bothered. It's far easier for me if everyone else in the world just installs firefox.

I'm thinking about using the Malfadorica to publish some notes about the O&amp;C universe. Should I? The PBC notes (very entertaining, BTW- I'm even more tempted to join PBC now) would appear to be a valid precedent (I've been criticised for using the malfadorica to 'plug' my projects before) but would anyone want to read it?

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For me, Mozilla leaves a little bit of crud at the top during its first try at the first page, but it's usable without refresh.

IE still does the wacky page, then refreshes to normal operation.

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Who in the world would complain about anything anyone wanted to post in the Encyclopedia??? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif If they don't like what you posted, they can just not read those pages. As long as you aren't inserting banners and irrelavant links in a bunch of other pages then put what ever you want up there. Heck, post your entire fiction collection on there. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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You know, if someone wrote a short story, and put it on a page, with links within the story to relavant articles in the Encyclopedia Malfadorica, that would be pretty useful.