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Revision as of 16:53, 30 December 2015

Welcome to the wiki/server news section of the site. The server that hosts Girlfriend Kari Wiki is primarily maintained by User:Erina.

Server Status

Currently in a relatively stable status. However, due to the early state of the server, changes to the server, infrastructure, and pages may still be made if deemed necessary.

Server News

Currently accepting all contributions! If you have anything to contribute, or want to help out by editing articles, or just joining as a member of the community, feel free to make an account and get started! Account creation, however, is protected by a password. The password is located on User:Erina's page - it's the name of his favorite girl (hint: her name starts with an "I").

Also, more admins will be necessary in the due future. Active contributors on the previous wikia are highly recommended to talk with me (Erina) if interested.

The future of this wiki is to become much more exhaustive and extensive than the current active Wikia. Feel free to add information about the anime, merchandise, girls, and more. However, please note that a separate database is being developed to organize cards and sprites of the girls in the game. Thus, please do not upload pictures of the cards to the wiki, unless they are being used to explain some in-game concept or mechanic. If you would like to add cards to the girl's pages, please talk to me (Erina) beforehand. Also, try not to upload too many sprites of the girls as well - one per girl is enough for the time being. This is also because those sprites will be hosted on the new database.

Hardware Notices

A few hardware notes:

• The current hardware that the server is running on is more than enough to support MediaWiki and its core functions.
• The current hardware that the server is running on meets the requirements to support VisualEditor and Parsoid.
• What this means to you: Avoid using the VisualEditor to make edits if you know how to use markup text. Also, don't play around with images too much (as in constantly resizing them, spamming them in various articles, etc.). This causes unnecessary server load.

As a general rule of thumb, use the visual editor only when dealing with formatting, images, or other stylistic properties that would be hard to do in the source editor. For help with editing, visit Project:Editing.

For now, the server seems to be handling most requests pretty well. However, I am slightly concerned with the server's future due to the few but definitely apparent memory allocation issues that are occuring. See the next section for more details...

Server Costs

The server has been upgraded to the $25/month option, and we're not encountering any more memory issues. Donations will be open at some time, feel free to contribute so I don't have to keep paying out of pocket for this! Maybe it'll also motivate me to become more active...

Database News

A new project is currently in the works, which is to set up a separate database which will (hopefully) host images that deal with the specific girls for the Girlfriend Kari Wiki. Status, updates, and progress will be posted here.

• 12/30/2015: Working on a temporary solution since the database won't be ready any time soon. Solution involves creating another namespace for all the 5000+ cards in the original card game.
• 10/24/2015: Realized that MongoDB is horrible for what I'm trying to do. Also, changing focus back to developing more on the actual wiki itself, and filling it up with more content before working on the wiki.
• 8/24/2015: Due to me trying to test "new and hot" software/programming languages, I have put the current database project on hold. I'm not a big fan of PHP, so I'm going to try writing a similar database in Node.js and MongoDB. We'll see how this goes.

For those interested, the current testing site uses Laravel 5.0 as the back-end (essentially the API), with AngularJS as the front-end.

• 4/24/2015: I'm still alive. The back-end of the testing database is near completion, but the front-end is, as can be seen, extremely lacking. There's still quite a bit of time before I'll be able to get this test database working. Please note that this is nowhere near representative of the final database product - there's much more information planned and a much better designed website. But for now, this site is being used for testing purposes.

Changelog

The below lists the current changelog to the wiki:

• 2/12/2015: MediaWiki has been successfully installed.
• 2/13/2015: VisualEditor has also been successfully installed.
• 2/13/2015: Main Page has been changed to "Girlfriend Kari Wiki." This is the new main page.
• 2/14/2015: Logo and favicon have been added.
• 2/15/2015: Main page has been updated in design and style. Now uses MediaWiki:Common.css to edit design.
• 2/15/2015: gfkari.com redirects to wiki.gfkari.com, for the time being.
• 2/17/2015: Modules and Templates are now working, along with documentation! I'll add more information on these later.
• 2/19/2015: Comments can be added to any pages with the comments tag. Just put the word comments in diamond brackets.
• 3/18/2015: Categories have been added.
• 3/24/2015: Enabled SSL (more security, but not like we'll ever need it)
• 10/24/2015: Upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.25.3.
• 10/25/2015: Added Disqus Integration! Add "{{Comments}}" to a page that you'd like to add Disqus comments to.

Future Updates

Future updates are listed below. Large future updates are bolded.

• Consider adding extensions for further image reliability support (or as feasible due to constraints in memory)
• Working on finishing the policy and help pages.
• Change and add more girls onto the main page (but not so much that they're cluttered). Working on finding good (better) sprites from GF Kari to use, like the Haruka one.
• Create a database for organizing sprites/cards/images/and maybe also information of the girls. This will be hosted on girls.gfkari.com.

--Erina