WikiIndex:Server move 2014

User:Ray King has asked me to help consolidate the wikis that he hosts onto a single well-maintained wiki hosting platform. This includes WikiIndex. Some of the advantages of the new platform include regular upgrades of MediaWiki as well as as better backup procedures. Although I'm starting to work on the migration today (November 14, 2014) I won't be actually switching over to the new server until sometime late next week at the very earliest. I'd like to prune back the extensions to just those that are regularly used in order to reduce the maintenance overhead for upgrades and the like. I may also get a chance to address existing annoyances like the large volume of spam accounts. I ask the community to help me create a prioritized list of the most important aspects of WikiIndex that need to be preserved and addressed during the move. -- BrandonCsSanders (talk) 22:25, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

• ? Is it just another server, or also another domain? What happened to .wiki? Manorainjan (talk) 22:55, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
  • Or is it another farm? Sweetie Belle (talk) 23:06, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
    • I was just going to move to another server on the new http://create.wiki farm and keep the existing domain name. That said, index.wiki is available and can be moved to during the move if the community desires. -- BrandonCsSanders (talk) 23:14, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Why would it got to create.wiki ? Manorainjan (talk)

To Preserve/Address ... a prioritized list of WikiIndex ServerMove concerns

• Semantic MediaWiki extension
• Spam accounts from 20 August 2013 attack (it would be nice to be rid of them, they make for example http://wikiindex.org/Special:ListUsers much less useful)
• Clean urls (no namespace like /wiki, and no index.php in the path)
• See Preventing_account_creation for the discussed transition from Special:AbuseFilter to mw:Extension:TitleBlacklist (installed recently) Manorainjan (talk) 22:47, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
• Amongst the large number of unused accounts there could be a mentionable amount of accounts which could not be activated due to the recent but now solved e-mail-Verification problem. These should not be deleted: (unused, unblocked, but with email).
• I do not think this wiki has ever got a real backup. I think this should be done first. Manorainjan (talk)
  • I have to make a backup in order to copy the wiki over. Also I won't delete this server until the migration has been declared successful. BrandonCsSanders (talk)
• During the transition account creation should be disabled.
  • Temporarily during the transition, or permanently? BrandonCsSanders (talk)
• During the move IP-editing should be disabled.
  • Temporarily during the transition, or permanently? BrandonCsSanders (talk)
• First thing would be to replace the frontpage with a big MOVE sign and start and proposed ready date and (if so) new address.

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