DDOwiki is back up.

[Borror0]

Great news guys, the wiki is up! Obviously, it's missing the Update 2 stuff so give us a few days for that.

First, I would like to apologize to the community for being offline for so long. It's all my fault. I should have been more clever and kept my own copy of the backups, no matter how reliable my host is. Had I done that, the wiki would have not been down for so long. Sorry. I've taken precautions so that such a thing does not ever happen again.

Secondly, I would like to thank the community for the overwhelming support. I stopped counting the offers to host it for free when I get a hold of the data and the offers to donate so that I don't have to spend a single penny, if the reason for the downtime was monetary. So much, in fact, that my PM box kept overflowing. I was expecting incessant insults for my utter stupidity and incompetence. What I instead got was never ending word encourage me, thanks and positive reputation coming my way.

Thanks, to all of you, for your support.

Finally, I'd like to ask you all feedback about the wiki. While the wiki was down, a few other wikis showed up to try to fill the place taken by the DDOwiki and there were discussions about moving the information over to the Compendium. However, the overall reaction by the community was to strongly oppose those other alternatives. Now, this is great news to me because it means you like what we do. However, it does not tell me what you like about the DDOwiki over those alternatives.

I would greatly appreciate if you would take the time to tell us what you like and dislike about the wiki. Both are important. If I don't know what you like, I might end up altering it. If I don't know what you dislike, I can't fix it. If there is something another wiki you know does that you'd like us to do, let us know.

Once again, sorry for having been down for so long,
Borror0

[Aranticus]

ibtl!






wait wrong thread....

[FauxSho]

Hooray!

Thanks Borror0!

[BLAKROC]

/cheer and /golfclap

[Shassa]

Yay! Thank you for your continued hard work on this.

The search field doesn't seem to be working though, it produces a field error with a bunch of gibberish (well code, really). Once it gets working again, it may be nice to make it a bit more conspicuous too. It's small, unlabelled and quite unnoticable for the first-timer.

Thanks again for making the site happen.

[Borror0]

The search field doesn't seem to be working though, it produces a field error with a bunch of gibberish (well code, really).

Fixed.

Once it gets working again, it may be nice to make it a bit more conspicuous too. It's small, unlabelled and quite unnoticable for the first-timer.

Trust me, that is very high ranked in my list of things to do. Thing is, the guy who started the wiki (aka Elliot) had a little of "fun" with the code altered in many ways. This makes it really hard for us to upgrade MediaWiki versions or change the skin, both which would help addressing the problem.

But, I would really like it to become a reality.

[cdbd3rd]

/Hears echoes of silent roar of applause fading away....


Ah, so that's what woke me up.


Welcome back, B.

[Visty]

YAY, now i can do adq again, cause the solutions are up again

kudos to the new hamsters

[ProdigalGuru]

Awesome.

Invaluable resource, ESPECIALLY for new players.

[techwench]

Yay!

What I love about the wiki is that there's so dang much information on it. Content is king. And your wiki is definitely the king among all things DDO.

Having said that, however, I really dislike the default wiki look (wikipedia annoys me, too, with its interface)...but that's the nature of wikis, I suppose. I don't know how the wiki interface could be changed to make it better, just because wikis have a certain structure that really can't be changed much other than simple skinning (I think that's where the compendium got it right...but that's about the only thing good about it, is that it fits the rest of the site's themes - content is sorely lacking in the compendium).

Anyway, aesthetics is just a teeny tiny minuscule issue. I can deal. But the information contained is invaluable, and I'm glad you got it back up!

[sephiroth1084]

And there was much rejoicing...

[Dawnsfire]

And there is much rejoicing

[sephiroth1084]

And there is much rejoicing

Biter!

[Braegan]

glad to see the info is available to players once again, w00t!

[Anneliese]

Awesome, thank you !

[KayJMM]

*hugs Borror0*

Please, dont go away!!!!

*cries of happiness*

[dunklezhan]

*Kneels on the floor*

We're not worthy! We're not worthy!

*stands up again*

But you sir, very much are worthy. Thanks SO much for all your work to replace this resource, it is much appreciated by me, and clearly by a great many other people.

[Dandonk]

Great work, thank you for bringing it back Borror. /salute

[Thorin2001]

Finally!
Thank you very much for your dedicated work, Borror0!
Wiki back up? Everyone rejoice!

[Babumbalaboo]

Good stuff. You da bomb!