Lemmings Wiki

GuyPerfect · November 16, 2009, 02:45:47 AM

I was involved with another wiki project for a while that was hosted on Wikia briefly. They flat-out broke the contract the wiki's administrator signed with them, and they started letting the ads go rampant. They gave us back the domain name and let us leave with only moderate legal threat.

I'm against Wikia on principle. It's run by a bunch of scumbags and the ads WILL get worse.

Clam · November 16, 2009, 04:16:28 AM

Care to tell us what this wiki was about?

I knew they were a bit dodgy with their "for-profit"-ness, but I've not heard anything terrible about them previously.

Dullstar · November 16, 2009, 04:34:36 AM

We should protest! Host our own Wiki! I'm sick of seeing World of Warcraft ****ing everywhere (also, those Lord of the Rings ads are pretty distracting, so I'm going to have to agree with Ubuntu forums logic - Try to avoid animated images for avatars, they are way too distracting. Same with ads). Plus, if anything, an ad will make me hate a product even more. Sometime I'll probably get shot for my extreme stance against WoW.

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/tongue.gif" alt=":P" title="Tongue" class="smiley" />

Minim · November 20, 2009, 07:32:56 AM

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=31.msg7509#msg7509">Quote from: Clam Spammer on 2009-11-15 22:16:28

Care to tell us what this wiki was about?

The problem is that Lemmings was a game made back in the early 90's, so only a few people would remember it, yet the Wiki stuff was made too late.

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/tongue.gif" alt=":P" title="Tongue" class="smiley" /> Remember the PSP version? That was made in 2006 and it may have caught some people's attention. But the PSP version was released nearly 4 years ago.

Clam · November 20, 2009, 07:35:02 AM

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=31.msg7504#msg7504">Quote from: GuyPerfect on 2009-11-15 20:45:47

I'm against Wikia on principle. It's run by a bunch of scumbags and the ads WILL get worse.

Speak of the devil... they just did. I went there just now and got an ad that doesn't move off the screen when you scroll. I've never had that on Wikia before.

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/undecided.gif" alt=":-\" title="Undecided" class="smiley" />

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=31.msg7513#msg7513">Quote from: Dullstar on 2009-11-15 22:34:36

We should protest! Host our own Wiki!

How feasible is that? Do we have enough server space to host one?

Pooty · November 20, 2009, 08:15:50 AM

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirements" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">Here's the requirements to have a MediaWiki-style wiki installed. You don't need 50MB to set it up, but it's a good idea to have more.

This website also has the required MySQL and PHP. Not sure about the other requirements.

Dullstar · November 23, 2009, 12:12:07 AM

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=31.msg7621#msg7621">Quote from: Clam Spammer on 2009-11-20 01:35:02

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/index.php?topic=31.msg7504#msg7504">Quote from: GuyPerfect on 2009-11-15 20:45:47
I'm against Wikia on principle. It's run by a bunch of scumbags and the ads WILL get worse.

Speak of the devil... they just did. I went there just now and got an ad that doesn't move off the screen when you scroll. I've never had that on Wikia before. http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/undecided.gif" alt=":-\" title="Undecided" class="smiley" />

"Lemmings Wiki. Adblock Plus & Flashblock required."

http://www.lemmingsforums.com/Smileys/lemmings/XD.gif" alt=":XD:" title="XD" class="smiley" />

danparker · December 13, 2009, 04:34:47 AM

Since I've created an account on the Wikias when I worked on the Thomas The Tank Engine and Theodore Tugboat wikias, I think I might stop by here someday and edit, too.

Dullstar · December 21, 2009, 10:23:14 PM

If I don't do this only anonymously, I would probably have to set up another email address just because when they say they won't spam, I don't trust them.