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Dwarf Fortress Wiki talk:Improvement Drive

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Revision as of 23:41, 18 September 2009 by Briess (talk | contribs)
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Instead of pursuing this kind of thing, why not go with paypal and ask for donation? I'm curious, why are you forking that much money for a simple wiki ? 60$ a month seems a lot. Could you provide stats about bandwidth usage and stuff like that ? --Karl 22:59, 18 September 2009 (UTC)


I'd rather not ask for donation, as I feel if the ads are focused properly, they shouldn't be too intrusive and more than cover the bills. Also, we have the issue that since this is on my company's server, the hosting provider is technically the company I co-own; as that is the case, donations to a company raise all kinds of weird legal issues that I'd rather not spend time trying to figure out. Ad units are legally able to be accounted as "revenues," so it makes it significantly simpler to just go with that. If I had a cheaper server that could handle the load, sure, I would move it there - unfortunately, I tried that, which resulted in about an hour of downtime yesterday. Oops.


Once my company is making enough money that it's no longer draining money from my savings (and is paying me, instead of me paying it), I'll gladly and quite quickly drop the ads.


Server usage statistics:

  • 3gb downstream / day used on average (peak: 3.3gb)
  • 322mb upstream / day used on average (peak 7.4gb, but I was uploading some stuff not related to the wiki)<
  • Apache stats: (only the wiki is using Apache, and it's set to manage new instances of apache based on load)
  • Average: 7 instances of Apache running at 2.0% processor utilization each, 20 mb of memory each
  • Peak: 22 instances of Apache running at 3.2% processor utilization each, 23 mb of memory each


The above are moving averages. Briess 23:12, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Non-vanilla

         o Should we include a link to Mayday's graphical compilation on the main page?
 The default tileset can be more than intimidating for some.

The problem is that MM's download is far from vanilla, and conflicts rear up regularly with newbies who have downloaded that and then refer to this wiki - which isn't the same interface in many respects. If we were to do something like that, we'd want to approach it with those problems in mind.--Albedo 23:24, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

  • Makes sense. The only gameplay differences I can recall off the top of my head are the stone control mod and the 'cat cancels store item in stockpile: too injured' 'fix'. What other changes are there that we would need to account for? Briess 23:30, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Verify this

   * Verify Time!

         o Category:Verify has a lot of stuff we need to verify.

To "verify" sometimes requires "more research", and sometimes that research is either obscure, time consuming, random, tedious or a combination of the above. Do we need it? Yeah. Are we excited about it?... <looks around>--Albedo 23:24, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

  • True. Once I get a few upgraded wiki modules up though, I'll probably start cracking at it. Briess 23:29, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
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