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Editing Dwarf Fortress Wiki:Improvement Drive
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− | + | Here's some information about the traffic on the wiki. How cam we improve the site for players, both new and old? ( I will update these traffic information shots weekly) | |
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+ | Image:Top Pages.png|Top Pages | ||
+ | Image:Search terms.png|Search Terms | ||
+ | Image:Overlay.png|Navigation Flow Overlay | ||
+ | </gallery> | ||
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+ | *Advertisements | ||
+ | **No one likes advertisements, but they are a necessary evil. Hosting this wiki costs approximately $60 a month out of my own pocket, which is paid for by 6 ad clicks / day. Currently the average is 1 click / day. Not a huge deal if I loose money on this, though. | ||
+ | **How can we improve placement / filtering so the ads are not as intrusive, yet we get 6 clicks per day so I'm not taking from my ramen budget? | ||
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*New Player Experience | *New Player Experience | ||
**Perhaps the tutorials should be reworked a bit, and made more prominent on the main page. Agree / Disagree? | **Perhaps the tutorials should be reworked a bit, and made more prominent on the main page. Agree / Disagree? | ||
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**Should we include a link to Mayday's graphical compilation on the main page? The default tileset can be more than intimidating for some. | **Should we include a link to Mayday's graphical compilation on the main page? The default tileset can be more than intimidating for some. | ||
*Overall Site Improvements | *Overall Site Improvements | ||
**What should we improve? | **What should we improve? | ||
− | ** | + | **To increase the speed of page loads, I can migrate the database to PostgreSQL (this server setup has been optimized for Postgres previously, and not mySQL). However, this would require some downtime (between 0-3 hours, most likely). Thoughts? |
+ | **I moved this site from the original (vps) server it was hosted on due to PHP stack issues. | ||
+ | **I have been thinking about updating the captcha plugin to recaptcha, and then re-enabling page edits for unregistered users. Thoughts? | ||
**There may be odd kinks to work out still on the website, as I do not program / have experience in PHP (Ruby on Rails is what I do my web programming in). | **There may be odd kinks to work out still on the website, as I do not program / have experience in PHP (Ruby on Rails is what I do my web programming in). | ||
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*Verify Time! | *Verify Time! | ||
− | ** [[ | + | ** [[Category:Verify]] has a lot of stuff we need to verify. |
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+ | ==Server Information== | ||
+ | Centos 5 LAMP stack | ||
+ | MediaWiki 1.15.1 | ||
+ | PHP 5 | ||
+ | memcached 512m daemon | ||
+ | 4 core 2.33ghz processor | ||
+ | 8g ram | ||
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+ | This server is also the memcached server for my company's up and coming applications. These applications are using 6g of memcached space, leaving 1.5g available for apache and php processes. | ||
− | + | Hosting cost for the server is $750 a month including my company's applications. | |
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