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I started a thread on /tg/ (the thread has since died, but is archived on sup/tg/) to celebrate being alive. Go post in it so I don't feel so alone. --Wikifag (talk) 04:00, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
News
Hello again, loyal browsers. It's been a very long time since I last gave a news update (about nine months according to the last edit here) but I am still alive and occasionally I do stuff!
Users browsing earlier today might have seen the site get locked and then go offline for a while. During this downtime I basically wiped my existing install (after backing up the database, of course!) and set up Ryoko (the node that hosts the wiki) from scratch - the previous install was frankly horribly ugly and quite hacky in a few places and it was generally unpleasant to work with. Now, using the advantage of improved experience and updated packages, I've got a cleaner setup which will be much easier to maintain and update in the future. This also gave me an opportunity to update mediawiki to the latest release version - you might note that things look a bit different now the default skin has changed from good old monobook to the new, shiny "vector".
The major upside to all this right now is that I know a lot more about making things run efficiently than I did back when I first started this gig and I've thoroughly investigated the options I have for making the site snappier. For instance, previously I wasn't running PHP with any sort of cache, and I wanted to shoot myself once I realised what I was doing - now I've got APC in place to speed things up. It tells me it's got a hit rate of 100%. This is delicious. I've also played with the options in the wiki configuration itself to generally improve performance, taking advantage of some more caching and a couple of performance optimisations. It's taken her a little while to settle down, but the node's now sitting pretty at less than half processor capacity during what's normally the site's busiest hours - and unless I'm mistaken response times feel much better now.
I'm not so optimistic to believe that I pulled off this update flawlessly and I may have broken some things somewhere, so if you find anything that's stopped working please let me know by emailing me or leaving a message on my talk page. However, from where I'm sitting things are looking good! Happy browsing --Wikifag (talk) 00:49, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
About
Welcome to 1d4chan, a site devoted to the description and archival of all sorts of things interesting and relevant to /tg/ (the "traditional games" board of 4chan), including articles on fa/tg/uy culture, memes particular to (or at least commonly used on) /tg/, games and systems played by its browsers, interesting fluff thereof, and writefaggotry posted to the board. In addition to this, users are free to use the wiki to store information about online campaigns they are running, or as a platform for collaborative effort on homebrewn game systems or settings.
The wiki is hosted and administrated by Wikifag, although his time is limited and he cannot monitor it non-stop. If an issue has arisen which you believe needs immediate attention (a prominent example would be if the site has gone down or is extremely sluggish, as it may be some time before he notices, or someone has uploaded illegal material to the server) then he can be reached by emailing wikifag [at] gmail [dot] com.
Conduct
- No egoboos 1d4chan is NOT for pages dedicated to specific browsers of /tg/, namefag or tripfag, regardless of how well-known or liked/disliked they are. The only exception to this is the drawfag page, which may list known drawfags and describe their usual subject matter. Please refrain from qualitative analysis of a given drawfag's talents or personality, as drama will inevitably ensue.
- No wars in the article If you find yourself in an edit war or anything similar with another user, move your argument to the article's discussion page. If you observe a dispute over an article and have an opinion one way or the other about it, comment on the discussion. Wikifag prefers to get input from as many people as possible before he has to make some sort of administrative decision about a given issue.
- Campaigns in the Campaign: namespace If you intend to use the wiki as storage for pages about your campaign, your main page should be at Campaign:Name and other related pages should be at Campaign:Name/Stuff. Your pages should also link to each other to avoid them appearing on the orphaned pages list. Wikifag won't punish users for forgetting to do this, but it helps keep the wiki tidy!
- Use the Setting: namespace for articles related to homebrew (as opposed to offical) settings, following the same syntax.
- Deleting pages If you find a page that needs deleting, put the {{deletion}} template on it (by including that markup at the top of the page) and it will be added to the deletion category. Pages that should be deleted are pages for campaigns that are no longer running or no longer needed for that campaign, and pages of very low quality or subject matter unrelated to /tg/. Note that the criteria for "related to /tg/" is somewhat lax, and well-written pages that justify even a tangential relation to /tg/ are likely to be allowed to remain.
- Block Policy See the Policy page for a clarification of what behaviors are considered block-worthy. In short: vandalism and (excessive) edit-warring warrants a block of a few days, and link-spammers get permanently blocked. Use the talk page instead of the "undo" link.