User talk:Tyrx

Win a $375 kickstarter tier buddy key competition
Once you have made your contribution to the wiki simply reply to this using the text editor and you will be in the draw to win the buddy key. --Tyrx (talk) 03:00, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Please add me to the draw. :) --Worship (talk) 11:09, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Please add me to the draw aswell :) --Osmos (talk) 21:38, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * PLease add me too :-) --Seby (talk) 11:42, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Add me to the draw please. Good luck to all --Balrog (talk) 09:56, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Captcha
From experience running wikis in the past: you need to add captcha ASAP. There are spambots specifically designed to look for MediaWiki installations and throw up googlebomb text all over, and fighting them manually is a losing battle.

I suggest QuestyCaptcha, to be required when creating a new account or when editing without an account. 99.46.137.58 01:25, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion! I'll install the QuestyCaptcha extension tonight when I have free time. --Tyrx (talk) 06:58, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Community Portal
Hey Tyrx, there's still some red links on the Community Portal. It's probably a good idea to write up a basic editing tutorial and list the available templates. (Also hello! I'm new and inexplicably dedicated to wikis that are low on information!) Anon The Third (talk) 11:32, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Just joined...anything I need to know?
Hi!

I'm glad to see you've already started a wiki for TUG. I love taking notes, making lists, and making things tidy in general, so I thought I'd start contributing here.

How are you folks communicating about how to create the wiki so far? -- Red Agliator (talk) 15:50, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Do questions about specific pages go on their talk pages? (Apparently not all wikis do that.)
 * If I have a question / suggestion about rearranging page structure, where does that go? (One of the related talk pages? Somewhere central?)
 * Same question about where I discuss the standard ways to do various things.
 * Where can I look to see what's already been discussed so I can catch up?
 * Is there a 'what needs to be done' page?
 * Are there any wiki-specific house rules / conventions I should know about before I send my bull into the china shop?
 * Just found the Community Portal and Current Events pages, so a few of those questions are answered.
 * -- Red Agliator (talk) 16:01, 28 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Unless otherwise stated, you should assume that questions about specific pages go on their individual talk page. If it's a wiki-wide suggestion such as page structure you should use the feedback page until the boilerplates category is ready. At the moment standardisation rules hasn't been discussed, so stick to the feedback area for the time being. The neglected Projects page kinda lists what needs to be done, and I'll be revamping that page in the coming days.
 * --Tyrx (talk) 11:44, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

User request for Semantic MediaWiki
I've done more research, and having Semantic MediaWiki here would allow us to do some neat things. (For one thing, we wouldn't have to worry about keeping things like recipes updated on multiple pages. For another, it would allow us to do "related to" searches easily, such as "all recipes that use this ingredient".) If you do install it, I'd also request the Semantic Result Formats extension. If we want to make adding new articles easier, we should also consider the Semantic Forms extensions.

If you want to see it in action, I've been playing around with it on the referata SMW scratchpad.

--Red Agliator (talk) 16:50, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Considering the size of the changes, I'd like to stick to the safe side and update to MediaWiki in a development environment before trying it on the live wiki. With that said, I'll schedule the Semantic MediaWiki update for the weekend, although that may change if any problems crop up in the development version. --Tyrx (talk) 11:31, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * That makes a ton of sense. Let me know if there's any way I can help with testing the switchover in the development environment. Thanks!
 * --Red Agliator (talk) 13:26, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the front page update!
There will probably be more pages to come, now that the TUG categories are fleshed out more. -Red Agliator (talk) 16:11, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Some community discussions starting
Just a heads up that a few of us have started a discussion on "how should the wiki do x?", in case you want to weigh in. TUG_wiki:Feedback -Red Agliator (talk) 13:40, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Wiki slowdown, October 4 and continuing
There's been a slowdown in page response time starting around the 4th or 5th of October. I'm not sure whether our editing volume has affected this, whether the SMW queries need optimizing, or just what. I thought I'd give you a heads up so you had a chance to look into it. Thanks! &mdash;Red Agliator (talk) 14:23, 6 October 2014 (UTC)


 * That's odd.. I'll look into the issue tomorrow and roll out the necessary fix to restore performance to what it used to be.

--Tyrx (talk) 09:54, 10 October 2014 (UTC)


 * I should probably include a little more information: the slowdown is variable, occurring maybe every 10ish times I try to load any page (both read and edit mode, opening, or saving changes). It doesn't seem to be page-specific, either: a particular page will work fine 5-10-15 times, then will take a very long time to load once, then work fine again.
 * –Red Agliator (talk) 16:28, 10 October 2014 (UTC)