Problems with the Wiki

DB backup would have been the easiest :P Tbh I think only known contributors should get rights to edit and update it. I know that isn't the point of a wiki but solves issues like this arising. :P

I went to edit an article earlier and I couldn't do anything and I was like oh something must have gone down :P

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Originally Posted by Zak

DB backup would have been the easiest :P Tbh I think only known contributors should get rights to edit and update it. I know that isn't the point of a wiki but solves issues like this arising. :P

I went to edit an article earlier and I couldn't do anything and I was like oh something must have gone down :P

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If you would like to edit something, we could possible sort something out. We are trying to sort something out when Joe is back.

At this minute the Wiki is locked down so only content staff can edit or create anything on the Wiki. Although we have allowed other staff members permissions to edit as they have requested to do so. Could do this for other members who want to contribute to wiki as well for the time being. This is until Chippiewill is back from his holiday and we will review the situation then.

Can we still edit our own pages ?

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Originally Posted by GoldenMerc

Can we still edit our own pages ?

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I couldn't edit mine. I tried to after I tried editing the Comedy Poster page.

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Originally Posted by GoldenMerc

Can we still edit our own pages ?

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Originally Posted by Zak

I couldn't edit mine. I tried to after I tried editing the Comedy Poster page.

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If either of you would like to make changes to a page. Just PM @Wispur; on the forum and he can arrange something. Only Chris because Laura and Joe are both away currently :P.

How come Habbox can't even run a simple Wiki? Every independent Wiki I know (including Wikia) has dozens of rollback users. Instead of focusing on the mundane Habbox Hierarchy, give people permission to become admins and so forth on the Wiki to those who are active editors. Giving it to people who clearly have better things to do is ridiculous. The Wiki should be seen as a separate entity, with those high up in the hierarchy only being given the permissions if they have a use for them. It would be nice, if it's not done so already, to give admin perms to users who are active users who may not necessarily be staff elsewhere on Habbox. It's what the Wiki platform was designed for.

This is probably the most action the Wiki has seen for a long long time. I'm amazed it's still going. Most edits seem to be about Habbox Users, which is so incredibly boring and self-centred. Focus should be shifted on actual Habbo content but that maybe asking for far too much.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

How come Habbox can't even run a simple Wiki? Every independent Wiki I know (including Wikia) has dozens of rollback users. Instead of focusing on the mundane Habbox Hierarchy, give people permission to become admins and so forth on the Wiki to those who are active editors. Giving it to people who clearly have better things to do is ridiculous. The Wiki should be seen as a separate entity, with those high up in the hierarchy only being given the permissions if they have a use for them. It would be nice, if it's not done so already, to give admin perms to users who are active users who may not necessarily be staff elsewhere on Habbox. It's what the Wiki platform was designed for.

This is probably the most action the Wiki has seen for a long long time. I'm amazed it's still going. Most edits seem to be about Habbox Users, which is so incredibly boring and self-centred. Focus should be shifted on actual Habbo content but that maybe asking for far too much.

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Who's saying we can't run a simple Wiki? A problem was reported to us and we took action to get it fixed. Like we would do if it happened to any of the other sites. It's only locked down at the moment while we get a better system in place in managing the page edits from non-staff user accounts.

Hire more people, it's what every other Wiki does. Users can self-moderate a Wiki with ease if you promote the right people - it's what the system was designed for. The image could have been removed (if there were enough admins) and/or edits reverted with a single push of a button, yet judging by the comments no such system was being properly utilised and as per usual took a bit too long to deal with. The only thing we have to be thankful for is that the Wiki seems to only be used by a very limited number of people.

The lockdown is incredibly pointless too. With the right way of using a Wiki any further edits could be resolved by "rollbackers", admins etc dealing with it. All you need to do is link the IP with a user on the forum and that's it, you don't need to lockdown a site which would do more harm than good - it stops the majority of good editors from doing what they enjoy.

EDIT: Why on earth are you not using the rollback system? There are no rollbackers in the Wiki and they're considered one of the simplest forms of promotion that can be seen as an incentive and reward for hard work editing a Wiki

http://habboxwiki.com/Special:ListUsers

I use the Wiki quite a lot actually. It's useful to lookup the origins of furniture and how they came about. I'd quite happily write content if I knew anything more about the furniture.
@GommeInc; are you able to rollback all changes from a user's IP? I can imagine it's very simple in code terms (unless the content links to multiple tables). Issues like these would be resolved easily if Wiki's had that feature.