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Zelda Wiki Problem

Well, hi. For the last few days, I'm having problems working with this wiki, and I thought you'd be someone good to ask.

Now, I know very little about what is wrong with this wiki lately, so I was hoping you would help me get clear on the subject.

Moreover, there's a problem that I think only I am having, and that problem is that pages aren't updating for me from the last time I was here making edits. Edits that I made to pages like River Zora don't seem to be appearing normally, unless I look at it from the history option.

This is worrisome, and I waited for two days before starting to feel that this problem may be exclusive to me. Hoping for some help... User:Max 12/sig 12:57, 4 July 2011 (EDT)

Don't fret! It's not just you, everyone's been having some issues using ZW for the past week or so, we've been experiencing some server issues and such which is making the site look funky-- for some people it's been completely inaccessible, and for others they just keep getting cached page errors and such. I'd recommend clearing your browser cache, and possibly clearing your cookies and see if that improves your problem.User:Mandi/sig 19:33, July 4, 2011 (UTC)
(yea, I'm not Cipriano but I answered anyhow)

Hey Max, Mandi seems to have explained it sufficiently - server change-overs, integration of the new skin to various pages/templates, larger viewership, etc. could all be contributing to the problems you are experiencing. I know that the downtimes and crashes seem to be effecting browsers differently as well - I run Opera on my laptop, but Safari on the Mac... to test, I brought up ZW at the same time yesterday on both: it was down on Safari, but I could at least get to the page on Opera (though the wiki was a mess of background and code). We hope to have these problems solved within the decade (ha!), but seriously, hopefully soon. — cipriano^talk 01:15, 5 July 2011 (EDT)

Thanks. I was just worried because I thought that the Wiki is looking okay for the last few days again, and that made me think that the problem with pages not updating was just for me. At least now I know the truth. And I clear my browser cache at least once everyday, so that's already done.

I'm using Firefox 5, but I have Opera, so I may use that if things seem better there.

Just being curious - the skin change and server change happened some good time back, and back then there was no problem, right? So I wonder what suddenly caused it now. I've seen the same problem at Kirby Wiki when randomly passing over.

Well, anyways, good to know that the problem is being worked on. Once again, just curious - who's working on these? And how many days or months (years?) might it take? And in the mean time that it is being fixed, can I keep making edits in the wiki?

Anyways, hope I didn't come off as annoying. I was just curious, and a little worried. Thanks Mandi and Cipriano. User:Max 12/sig 22:14, 5 July 2011 (EDT)

Don't worry, you're not being annoying! These are all very good questions likely on the minds of other editors; you were just the first to ask! Zelda Wiki is on a joint server with Zelda Universe, the largest Zelda fansite on the Internet, and its owner, Jason, initiated a server move to accommodate the growing viewership between the two sites (and his other projects on the same server). At around 1:30 EST, the wiki begins to slow and sometimes even crashes thanks to the nightly backup done to safeguard the content on Zelda Universe and Zelda Wiki in case of spammer wars or other circumstances. Yes, during the downtime, you are of course allowed to continue editing - just keep in mind when these backups occur, and be sure to save everything often (off-wiki as well, especially if the edits are larger) just in case the wiki goes down unexpectedly. — cipriano^talk 22:59, 5 July 2011 (EDT)

I liked your signature coding so much, I made mine using the same coding but tweaked it a bit to make it unique. Hope you don't mind! :P — cipriano^talk 23:58, 5 July 2011 (EDT)

I think a short message should be posted and made pretty visible on the front page, telling how the problems are still there, and what it might cause.

If the backup process is what makes the wiki do some of such things like showing error messages and telling how a page is cached, and pretty much making the wiki inaccessible, then how come backup never seemed to be a bother in the past until now?

Sigh... Okay... I guess that's how it goes...

Your signature looks great. Personally, I see no point in giving a link to contributions and sandbox from a signature, since it is much more unlikely for people to visit these pages before they visit the other person's user page or talk page. So, people are much more likely to visit them from your user page or talk page.

Well, see you around anyways! User:Max 12/sig 21:51, 6 July 2011 (EDT)

That's a good idea! In regards to your question about the backups, I don't actually know... on my computer, the backups have always knocked out the wiki for me, so this is really nothing new. The backup's always been a bother, since both sites have so much content, but the server changeover may have upped the crash frequency. Then again, I don't have server access, so I only know so much! :) — cipriano^talk 22:28, 6 July 2011 (EDT)