ArmchairGM: Difference between revisions

Jump to navigation Jump to search
2,679 bytes added ,  31 August 2013
expansion
(updated entry, update stats, licence, tidy)
(expansion)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Wiki
{{Wiki
|URL              = http://armchairgm.wikia.com
|URL              = http://armchairgm.wikia.com
|logo              = [[Image:ArmchairgmWikiLogo.JPG]]
|logo              = http://images.wikia.com/armchair-new/images/b/bc/Wiki.png
|wide logo        = y
|wide logo        = y
|recentchanges URL = http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Special:Recentchanges
|name              = ArmchairGM
|recentchanges URL = http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Special:RecentChanges
|about URL        = http://armchairgm.wikia.com/ArmchairGM_Wiki:About
|wikinode URL      = No
|wikinode URL      = No
|status            = Active
|status            = Dormant
|language          = English
|language          = English
|editmode          = OpenEdit
|editmode          = OpenEdit
|engine            = Wikia
|engine            = Wikia
|license          = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike <!--most Wikias use CC-BY-SA-->
|license          = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
|maintopic        = Sport
|maintopic        = Sport
|backupurl        = <!--http://wikistats.wikia.com/a/ar/armchairnew/pages_full.xml.gz-->
|backupurl        = <!--http://wikistats.wikia.com/a/ar/armchairnew/pages_full.xml.gz-->
|backupdate        = 2012-MM-DD <!--ISO date of backup URL, if unknown, type 'unknown date'-->
|backupdate        = 2012-MM-DD <!--ISO date of backup URL, if unknown, type 'unknown date'-->
}}
}}
What's '''ArmchairGM'''?  We are a '''fan-based sports community''' built on a heavily customized {{tag|MediaWiki}} (Wikipedia) engine that combines blogs, news, and  voting, with the power of a sports-wiki. ArmchairGM joined {{tag|Wikia}} in December 2006.
'''ArmchairGM''' is a fan-based sports community originally built on a heavily customized {{tag|MediaWiki}} (Wikipedia) engine that combines blogs, news, and  voting, with the power of a sports-wiki. ArmchairGM was bought by {{tag|Wikia}} in December 2006 for $2 million.
 
Parts of the ArmchairGM codebase were open-sourced in early 2008<!-- see the earliest history entry at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:SocialProfile&offset=&limit=500&action=history -->, and in early 2009<!-- http://web.archive.org/web/20100220055843/http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Lockerroom:One_Year_Ago..._A_mistake_was_made.#comment-286956 ; according to http://www.timebie.com/calc/datesubtract.php, Pean's comment was posted on 5 April 2009 --> the developers and founders of ArmchairGM were laid off.
 
By early 2010, Wikia had dropped support for ArmchairGM and considered it "a failed project", in the words of their then-CEO.<!-- http://web.archive.org/web/20100220093052/http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Lockerroom:ArmchairGM's_current_(technical)_status -->
 
Somewhere between 8 August 2010 and 10 February 2011, ArmchairGM was migrated from its own codebase into the standard Wikia codebase and Wikia's Oasis skin. During this migration, a lot of the site's original content was lost, in addition to many features which were unique to ArmchairGM back in the day.
 
<!-- 8 August 2010 snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20100805065032/http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Main_Page
 
vs. 10 February 2011 snapshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20110210195647/http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Main_Page
 
Statistics:
3 August 2009: http://web.archive.org/web/20090409073732/http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Special:Statistics
 
"There are 379,461 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about ArmchairGM, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 88,875 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.
 
24,401 files have been uploaded.
 
There have been a total of 7,992,162 page views, and 640,092 page edits since ArmchairGM was setup. That comes to 1.69 average edits per page, and 12.49 views per edit."
 
versus 31 August 2013 stats:
 
Content pages 12,188
Pages (All pages in the wiki, including talk pages, redirects, etc.) 59,565
Uploaded files 25,301
 
Edit statistics
 
Page edits since ArmchairGM Wiki was set up 169,334
Average edits per page 2.84
-->
On 1 August 2011 the [https://github.com/mary-kate/ArmchairGM ArmchairGM codebase] was finally open-sourced.
 
Many of the features that originated at ArmchairGM, commonly called [[mw:social tools|social tools]], are nowadays available as stand-alone extensions, compatible with the latest releases of MediaWiki.


[[Image:33wikisin33days.png]] [http://eastwikkers.typepad.com/eastwikkers_/2006/04/33_wikis_19_cha.html eastwikkers: 33 Wikis]
[[Image:33wikisin33days.png]] [http://eastwikkers.typepad.com/eastwikkers_/2006/04/33_wikis_19_cha.html eastwikkers: 33 Wikis]
==See also==
*[[mw:Social tools|Information about social tools on MediaWiki.org]]
*[https://github.com/mary-kate/ArmchairGM ArmchairGM codebase on GitHub]


{{Size
{{Size
|pages = 12190
|pages = 12188
|statistics URL = http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Special:Statistics
|statistics URL = http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Special:Statistics
|wikiFactor = 2 <!--Preferred. If unknown leave void. See: Category:wikiFactor for help-->
|wikiFactor = 2 <!--Preferred. If unknown leave void. See: Category:wikiFactor for help-->
|wikiFactor URL = http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Special:Mostvisitedpages
|wikiFactor URL = http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Special:Mostvisitedpages
}}(As of: 18 November 2012)<!--manually add/amend date when stats are verified and/or updated-->
}}(As of: 31 August 2013)<!--manually add/amend date when stats are verified and/or updated-->


[[Category:FoundedIn2006]]<!--http://armchairgm.wikia.com/Special:AncientPages-->
[[Category:FoundedIn2006]]
Bureaucrats, checkuser, interwiki, Administrators
146

edits

Navigation menu