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Got a response. Going ahead with manual install for now.

Also going to create a subforum for tracking the porting of information to the install. It'll be under the current Wiki forum. This will be the end of this thread.

Progress report: MediaWiki is available as a "One-Click Install" from the webhosting company that I host all of our websites on. The advantage of this feature is that I can set it to automatically keep the software up to date, or have it notify me when an update is available. The one thing...

Also, I am just about done for the day. The new software wont be up until tomorrow.

It appears to be locked down against any and all editing. However, not being too familiar with editing pages on a wiki, I would appreciate verification if you can please.

It is now located at http://oldwiki.ysgard.org

From this point on, the old wiki is no longer accessible at the original address. I have not yet locked it down, however. That will come next. After I have, I will post the link to where the old one is.

I am starting work on the wiki now. I may not reach a finished point today, but will at least have the old wiki moved to a temporary location today. The process will be as follows: Backup the file contents of the wiki. Backup the database contents of the wiki. Move the file contents of the wiki to a...

After a quick look, I think I'll be migrating these forums to phpBB 3.1 after I do the wiki replacement. That will allow the use of Google's newer "noCaptcha" that is currently pretty effective against the bots. I'll make sure to start a thread when I being work on the upgrade, since I'll ...

Its dead.

I'm currently focusing on setting up a new wiki with proper security for you guys. When thats done, I'll dig deeper into getting ReCaptcha(NoCaptcha) integrated here.

I had been trying to keep on top of the bot problem but have been very busy lately. Sorry about that. Quicker way to get it taken care of is to pm me. It will make sure I know sooner. As soon as I have enough time to research a better anti-bot system. The new system from Google isn't readily availab...

Done.

In addition to the update you guys really need to better secure this Wiki if you guys are going to continue to have one. It has been invaded by tons of bots again. I do not know the details of how to do so but I do believe that media Wiki allows you to set it up to require admin approved user accoun...

... any volunteers? It is currently more or less down throwing a ton of errors. It needs to be updated to a newer version of MediaWiki. the last update was done by CoffeeDragon with me guiding her. I do not know much about these wikis and I do not know how to most efficiently and effectively as well...

Just a reminder about the donate link until I have a more appropriate place for it. page.php?page=donate

Hard? No, as usable as what I'm working on? No. Quicker? Probably...

If you look at the VERY first post in this thread, at the very top of it, there is a link for now.

Not that it makes much difference, but I realized I had the wrong button up. It still goes to my account, but was labelled for Tairis. I've fixed it and its now properly labelled for here.

Patreon isn't viable for the types of services I provide you guys and other communities. If I were working on a new video game, or actively adding to Tairis all the time, that may be another story. I also looked into Dwolla, but it also doesn't support international payments. I nearly signed up, but...

I am looking into Patreon as an option. And once I have the page I mentioned that would be specifically about me and what I do for various communities, there will be other links. I intend to keep an Amazon wishlist linked there, as well as other options. I'll be categorizing links into practical/nee...

I have a temporary but functional placeholder for the donation page back up now at http://www.ysgard.org/page.php?page=donate I installed my custom database driven website system in order to put it up. I will update the page with more info as soon as I get a proper writeup done. Until then, the link...

As part of this site update, with the old front page missing, so are the donate buttons. Now, I've been struggling with returning these buttons. For one, the button that goes straight into the webhosting account to go only towards that bill was phased out for creating a new button but still function...

I have identified as many bots as I could find under the following criteria: Has no posts, and has a signature with advertising in it. Has no posts, and has an Interests field with advertising in it. I also searched on: Has no posts, but has sent a PM. This gave no damning results. In fact, only one...

While looking through the member list, I can see that there are some spam bots that have registered but never posted going back for well over a year. I have also noted a huge number of accounts with ZERO posts. I have deactivated (but not deleted) all users with zero posts and have not used the site...

If you guys want more themes installed or want to make a custom theme, the version we're using is 3.0 based, not 3.1. There are significant differences. A place to start looking would be here: http://www.phpbb3styles.net/ If you'd like to submit suggestions for installation, go ahead and post here w...

Finally executing this update ended up taking 16+ hours thanks to a series of database errors in conversion. This last time worked just right.

Hello everyone, I finally managed to get all of the kinks worked out of the upgrade from our old phpBB2+CH install to phpBB3. Specifically, 3.0.14 as 3.0 and 3.1 are currently separate branches, each being kept updated by the authors so far. I will look at the conversion to 3.1 later if it becomes n...