I updated the MFGG Wiki

[VinnyVideo]

Yes, really. The MFGG Wiki is in a state of semi-hibernation, though I still try to keep it alive and kicking, since it has some quality information that isn't available anywhere else.

This week I upgraded the MFGG Wiki from MediaWiki version 1.32 to 1.36. We hadn't updated the software the MFGG Wiki runs on since early 2019. We're still not running the very latest version - I try to update gradually, since MediaWiki upgrades usually require some significant configuration changes. Updating MediaWiki is a much more time-consuming effort than installing a new version of MyBB.

Also, every image on the MFGG Wiki now has a category! I'd been (slowly) working on this for 15 years, and it's finally done! The power of procrastination prevails.

[littlelum]

Oh, I didn't even know that the wiki was/is running on an outdated version. Besides any of the under the hood changes, I noticed that the Recent Changes page has been overhauled. I've been wondering for a while, would it be possible to run another one of those wiki events?

I'm a forum guy living in a Discord world

[VinnyVideo]

@littlelum If you'd like to take part in a "Make the Wiki More Awesome" event, that would be awesome indeed! I'm working on a priority list of articles that need to be updated or created.

Actually, it's been rare for the MFGG Wiki to not be running an outdated version - 2019 was about the only time in the Wiki's history that we were running the latest version of MediaWiki. The new Recent Changes search filters were part of one of the MediaWiki updates.

Also, I did a few other things since my last post:

• Every page has a category - this helps users find stuff and helps Wiki contributors figure out which pages ought to be kept/deleted/expanded
  
• Similarly, every category has a category - this sounds funny, but it helps us organize the Wiki better by having a logical hierarchy of categories and pages
  
• Every staff member (current and former) has a Wiki page now - we'd been missing a bunch of people from the past 5-6 years
  
• KrystalPhantasm has a page now - I finally got to break out the Sri Lanka template!
  
• The Timeline of MFGG has some additions, mostly for recent years
  
• I fixed some possible vandalism - someone added some apparent hoax game pages to most of the NCFC pages

Course clear! You got a card.

[VinnyVideo]

The Current Events page now has a list of Wiki projects you can help with! Most of them involve creating pages for popular fangames, though I have a few other ideas as well. Some of these tasks can be completed in five minutes, though a couple of them are massive endeavors.

I updated the list of April Fools' Day pranks and events! Most of the new text was for recent years, but we had been missing the 2012 prank, so I added that. Feel free to add more detail if anyone can recall what we did.

I added a list of Game Jams. It could afford to be more detailed, but it's a start. I thought that was worth including.

Course clear! You got a card.

[WasabiCatto]

We might need the new member bars cause the old ones being deprecated, I do have them on my PC if you need them

"shy guys are wall plugs confirmed" - Vitiman on Club Saturn Ex

[VinnyVideo]

@Gate Thanks! Updating the member bars would be a great thing to do when (if?) we make an updated plugin for the Wiki so it can grab the current member rank and badge details from MyBB profiles. Right now, it can only pull from the phpBB archive.

Course clear! You got a card.

[Vert]

I'm amused it's still up. It's kind of nostalgic, reading up on old silly MFGG events and fangames.

I make games with my friend DJ Coco sometimes. Check them out here: https://cliax-games.com/
Or check out my blog: https://vertette.github.io/

[VinnyVideo]

The MFGG Wiki is now running PHP 8.2! You probably haven't noticed much difference - it's been running on 8.2 for a few days now. Thankfully, upgrading the MFGG Wiki to PHP 8 was much easier than upgrading the forums or (worse yet) the mainsite.

The Wiki now has an overly detailed history of MFGG bots and spam. Have fun. If you're wondering why I considered this notable, dealing with automated traffic is the biggest challenge that forum admins face these days, and many of the technical changes we've made in recent years are for thwarting spambots or overzealous crawlers. Perhaps a future admin - or even an admin on a related community - would find these details helpful. Or maybe you just want to have a chuckle at some of the absurdities of a world where most Internet traffic is robotic.

Fun Fact: Until yesterday, the TCSMS article hadn't been updated since 2007. Zoinks.

Course clear! You got a card.