The resurrection of atari-wiki.com

[exxos]

It's been a loooooong while since I last tweaked a page in MediaWiki as an old job forced me to learn Twiki :)

Welcome to the team I guess ;) and forum :)

[MugUK]

It's been a loooooong while since I last tweaked a page in MediaWiki as an old job forced me to learn Twiki :)

Welcome to the team I guess ;) and forum :)

Cheers! I've updated my Saved Game Editing page, just as a training test. What fun MediaWiki tables were back in the old days :(

[exxos]

So there seems to be a little confusion going on over the wiki(s).

https://atari-wiki.com/ is the old / original wiki URL (Dal still owns the domain name not me) and that is pointing towards my server (exxoshost). There is a holding page which has been posting progress of sorts for the past few months.

The wiki which is currently being updated and fixed by myself and others is being hosted on a totally different server. It will be moved to "exxoshost" server once the majority of the link fixing has been done. I don't see any point in making a wiki live when the majority of the links don't actually work any more.

It also begs the question what is supposed to happen to the temlib version ? It was a 3 year old version of the database and as mentioned previously, there was a few pages updated since the 2020 copy on temlib. I think the guy who hosted that was on here but I cannot remember who it was now. But I guess it would be ideal, that if that copy is to remain online, that it is set to read-only. And preferably mentioning that the original wiki will be coming back online via https://atari-wiki.com/ . It will get quickly confusing if people start editing the temlib version as thats now around 200 edits behind for starters.

[troed]

I think that will sort itself out automatically from this being the canonical atari-wiki domain.

I'm fine with requiring manual user approval btw, but having to approve page edits is a huge pain :D A wiki should be constantly edited in small steps.

[exxos]

I have patched up a lot of the pages as best as I can. I'm sure people can appreciate the phenomenal amount of time going through every page and every link is just not a simple job. Even more so considering some sites vanished two decades ago. Things have either being removed or relinked to the wayback machine.

I've also reorganised and resectioned the homepage a little bit because it seemed a bit haphazard. Still not perfect but I think it will be ultimately be a little easier to navigate. A lot of links like games downloads of all been groups together better. Likely something still need moving about but....time...

I have got the software section up and have spent a phenomenal amount of time it in that section up and running again. I've also added some software. They could literally be thousands of titles to add but I think you should just hold the things which should be common to what people want or generally do. Things like those Falcon SDMA test programs which nobody can ever find are on there now etc. Also a variety of common programs which may be of interest to people. Really needs more adding but no idea what or where such stuff is anymore. I believe there is a CT60 Xcontrol patch somewhere which needs adding, plus all sorts of other cool / useful stuff. I have link to sites such as Atari legend and Atarimania etc but likey many more which need adding.

I'm not going to be spending much more time on this. I've done a phenomenal amount of work getting the wiki back up and running. So I consider my job done now and is down to the community to maintain the wiki. In a few days time over Christmas in fact, I'll start moving the wiki over to exxoshost. Once I have verified it is running fine then it will officially go live in Early Jan.

[troed]

I've done a phenomenal amount of work getting the wiki back up and running. So I consider my job done now and is down to the community to maintain the wiki. In a few days time over Christmas in fact, I'll start moving the wiki over to exxoshost. Once I have verified it is running fine then it will officially go live in Early Jan.

You have - and this work will be appreciated by the whole community for ... all the years to come really!

<3

[Darklord]

Yes, greatly appreciated! :dualthumbup:

[chronicthehedgehog]

:cheers:

[Cyprian]

many thanks @exxos

[jwd]

:thanksyellow: