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EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions?
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If the admins and editors decide to duplicate the EG articles in a wiki format, i volunteer myself to help too.

1. About automated or semi-automated process, I don't know about. Something exist but I don't know how to operate it. Some people in wikipedia uses bots coded in programming languages like Python or Lua. For example: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot

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2. One advantage in doing a free wiki in a wikifarm (like Miraheze, for example) is that they have some pre-installed features and pages and you don't need a resident tech expert to put online your own wiki if you choose to have one hosted by the wikifarm instead.

After that, if you want a different URL, you can request a name change to another address. If you do not want the name of the wikifarm to appear in the URL.
For example, the LGBTQIA+ Wiki is hosted on Miraheze but the name of the wikifarm does not appear in the URL:
https://lgbtqia.wiki/wiki/LGBTQIA%2B_Wiki

The page wikistats that is used to check some statistics on mediawiki:
https://wikistats.wmcloud.org/

Can also be used to check wikis on Miraheze in:
https://wikistats.wmcloud.org/display.php?t=mh

You can see the LGBT wiki is on position 36:
36 Name: lgbta Main articles: 7715 Total pages: 48603

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3. Another advantage is that, once you have a wiki, the content of that wiki can be ported easily with a feature called a "datadump". That is formating and packaging the text into a single file and downloading that file into your machine.
For example: https://yourcreatures.miraheze.org/  is a wiki
and the datadumps of that wiki appear on: https://yourcreatures.miraheze.org/wiki/...l:DataDump

If there is some backup online, it will appear on that page, and you can see the contents or save a file.
This file is also formatted in a way that if you want to put it on another wikifarm or in a different server can be used to recreate that wiki.
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4. About Timelines. There are templates, but templates are written in wikitext and can be limited in features.
Wikipedia has lots of templates in general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:G..._templates
The thing about templates is that you can nest one template inside another and make the second one easier to use.

And you can try extensions written in LUA, HTML or other languages that have more features.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EasyTimeline
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph

But if the timeline we have on orionsarm works, i think there is no need to change it and is better to keep everything in the orionsarm website meanwhile we create pages on the wiki.
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RE: EG Redesign - Ideas and Suggestions? - by Avengium - 06-30-2024, 05:45 AM

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