The German MarioWiki is about to change!

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Semako

Koopa Troopa
Hello, I have great news for you :)

I have been quite inactive here and in the English MarioWiki for a while - one reason for that was that I was busy moving the German Mario Board (https://marioforum.net) to a new server and creating a new design for it.

Yesterday our new board went live - that was just the beginnig: I'll take the German MarioWiki over from our administrator Waluigi & Yoshi, since he lacks the time to administrate it, and move it to the new server too. This will hopefully solve its accessibility and loading problems, as the new server is more powerful and reliable. This will be quite difficult I think, especially because I also need to update its software in the process, which hasn't been done for a while - I hope that there won't be too much problems popping up!

Also, I'm planning a total redesign of the Wiki, probably trying to make it look similar to the board to show that both pages are related to each other.

Be prepared for a resurrection of the German MarioWiki! :D
 
Nice, looking forward to it!!
 
Hobbes said:
Nice, looking forward to it!!
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Yeah, I'm excited too, I hope there won't be any problems ;)

As a first step, I implemented the wiki BBCode in the german board ^^
 
We're already close to moving to the new server!
If you take a look at the wiki in its current state, you can already see that I started developing its new skin, which is based on our forums's design ;) However I'll wait with modifying templates/php files until after the migration to the new server is completed successfully.
 
Due to real life stress and a real life movement including several week without internet, I had to delay the wiki's server change, but now it is finally done! :D
The wiki is now on its new server, with updated software and is open for contributions, altough there still are some problems, mostly caused by missing extensions.


There's a single problem I haven't found a solution for yet - the paths to iimages containing special characters such as question marks - obviously used for different kinds of ?-Switches and ?-blocks - are broken, since their filenames got somehow corrupted when I uploaded them (a total of more than 12 GB) to the new server and the question marks simply got lost. Can anyone give me an advice to solve that problem?

The next step for me is my examn at university next week xD and the next step regarding the wiki is trying to fix the remaining errors, updating its look slightly (as I've done with the main page, wich also is not finished obviously), installing the VisualEditor and of course contributing to it. In the last years, with the wiki on its old, unreliable server, we fell so far behind the Wikia "wiki", it is unbelievable. At least we have higher quality articles and no ads xD
 
Semako said:
There's a single problem I haven't found a solution for yet - the paths to iimages containing special characters such as question marks - obviously used for different kinds of ?-Switches and ?-blocks - are broken, since their filenames got somehow corrupted when I uploaded them (a total of more than 12 GB) to the new server and the question marks simply got lost. Can anyone give me an advice to solve that problem?
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Can you post an example?
 
Yes, of course.
https://mariowiki.net/wiki/Datei:NSMB_Sprite_%3F-Block.png is the file page. The file name on the server got corrupted to https://mariowiki.net/w/images/f/f5/NSMB_Sprite__-Block.png.

Thanks for trying to help me :)
 
Perhaps renaming the file so it doesn't contain any punctuation marks would work. I've had files not load properly due to use of periods other than the file extension's before, for example. So instead of "?-Block", go with "Question Block".
 
Yes, only the problem is that there are multiple files with that issue, since there are so many question blocks in the Mario universe ;)