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wis-art · 3 days
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I was busy doing commissions and dealing with chronic pain, but it's still lesbian visibility week so i hope you all feel seen :)
Both characters are trans women (she/her)
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Is there something up with the High Valyrian wiki?
https://wiki.languageinvention.com/index.php?title=High_Valyrian_language
I've had this link bookmarked since ages. I can't seem to load the page. I've tried all sorts of browsers and it is still not working. i wanted to get back into actively learning HV again and duolingo is kinda annoying so. Is there a different page/resource the wiki has moved on to? I also seem to recall an old forum for HV with a bunch of really good resources for it. is it possible for you to provide a link? Thanks so much anyway!!
Good question! This wiki, which you can find here..
...is a labor of love—not just from me, but from a team of dedicated individuals who want to get information about my languages up somewhere more or less permanent, editable by many, and all in one place.
For years I have had a hosting plan from DreamHost. For a fixed fee, DreamHost allows you, essentially, infinite storage. I've got a dozen or so websites hosted by the same DreamHost account. I have to pay for the urls (a yearly fee; everyone pays these), but the hosting itself is covered, no matter if I had one website or a hundred.
Creating a wiki that would function like Wiktionary was my idea. I love Wiktionary, and love the idea behind it. For example, let's say you wanted to look up mate. This is an English word. It's also a subjunctive form of matar "to kill" in Spanish. It's also the word for "saliva" in Swahili. It's also "dead" in Tahitian. It's also a word in several other languages. It's kind of cool to take an abstract form—going just by spelling—and seeing that it's a word in a bunch of different languages, all with different etymologies (some related, of course. For example, mate has something to do with death in a lot of Oceanic languages. In Hawaiian it's make, which looks like an entirely different English word!).
In Dothraki, the word tor is the number four. It comes from Proto-Plains *tur (and so would be tur in Lhazareen). It's also the word for "tower" in Hen Linge (this is one of the words coined by Andrzej Sapkowski, not created by me). In Noalath, from The Shannara Chronicles, it's the word for "wolf", and in Shiväisith, the language I created for the Dark Elves from Thor: The Dark World, it's the word for "sword". While it's true I didn't create the Hen Linge word, I created the others, so you can see it's a form I'm fond of, where the shape is possible.
Anyway, that's kind of cool! And that was the point of the site.
As it happens, the High Valyrian section of the site is…massive. To give you an idea, at the moment, the wiki has over 220,000 pages. Most of those are High Valyrian pages. This is because there's a dedicated team for High Valyrian that has added pages for every single noun, adjective, and verb inflection for every existing word on the wiki. To give you an idea, every verb of High Valyrian has around 200 forms (ipradagon "to eat", ipradan "I eat", ipradā "you eat", ipradas "s/he/it eats", etc.). Every single form for every single verb has its own page. This was accomplished primarily with a program that populated the inflectional pages, but however they got there, they're there.
Certain things on the wiki are templates that need to go through and "check" every single page. Additionally, a webcrawler goes through and checks every single page on the wiki. This requires a lot of RAM. As a result, periodically, the entire website just...shuts down.
Obviously this is not cool. I asked DreamHost about it, and though we have infinite space, we don't have infinite RAM. The first step was to disable all web crawlers. You know about SEO, and how you can do things to increase the page rank of your site? Well, we needed to do the opposite. We needed to make the site disappear from the net, effectively. And we did. This is why even if you type "David J. Peterson wiki language invention" into Google you get nothing. It's like we don't exist. We're there, but you have to know we're there and go to the site specifically. That helped, but our own programs still shut things down.
The second step was to get a private server (technically a virtual private server) for the site. This cost me an extra $25 a month ($300 a year) from what I was already paying. This definitely helped, but sometimes things get to be a bit too much, and so the site still shuts down. This is what you experienced.
You know how Wikipedia begs you for money every year? It's because of this. It's one thing to create an awesome resource; it's another thing for people to actually use it.
Hosting already costs me about $250 every two years, and every year I renew the urls for about 15 websites, which is another $300 a year. If I upgrade the VPS to the next level, it's even more money every year. And that's just me paying it.
Right now, we're in an okay spot. The site shuts down every so often, but most of the time it's more or less stable. Unless I start making a lot more money regulary, that's the way it's going to stay.
So if you go to the site and it's down, I'm very sorry, but it will be back. May take a few days, but it'll come back (as long as I'm alive, anyway).
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salpho · 2 days
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Made a Twitter thread for the wiki project idea !!
See the Twitter thread here !!
Linked Tumblr post here !!
Link to masterpost
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kafk-a · 2 months
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halopedia · 2 months
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Our friends at Tardis Wiki have a pretty significant piece of news we just had to share!
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Tardis Wiki has forked from Fandom! This means that they now have a new website, hosted and managed independently, but with all of the same articles and content.
The new wiki can be accessed at tardis.wiki! (Link below) You can support the new wiki by making a conscious effort to use it and by sharing the news.
In the words of the 13th Doctor after her regeneration, "Oh, Brilliant!"
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burgerlabs · 23 days
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BRENDON SMALL WORKS FAST BUT I WORK FASTER ON THE WIKI!!!!
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thefalloutwiki · 1 year
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Say hello to the new and independent Fallout Wiki!
Greetings to all of you lovely wastelanders, mutants and robots alike! We come bearing an important announcement, one which might even pique the curiosity of all you nosy prospectors out there.
We’d like to introduce you to the shiny and brand spanking new, Independent Fallout Wiki.
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Now, I know, you may be asking to yourself, “Wait, there’s already a Fallout Wiki out there! Why’s this one so dang special?” 
Well, if you’d bear with me for a moment, I’ll tell you why!
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What is the Independent Fallout Wiki?
Well, the Independent Fallout Wiki is just about as straightforward as it sounds! We all used to be members of another wiki dedicated to Fallout, which is hosted by a company that shall remain nameless. Now, if there’s one thing you should know about this company, it’s that they have very little regard for the community, introducing changes that no one likes, hosting tons of ads and even buying out wiki editors to work for them. We find this (among other things) to be antithetical to our beliefs. We feel that wikis should be in the hands of the community, not a company that refuses to listen to us!
This reached a breaking point earlier this year, along with some events out of our control, which led to the bright idea of forking into independence and starting a new wiki! A wiki that’s truly in the hands of the community. A wiki that is self-hosted and safe from harmful, corporate interests. We don’t have shareholders to please and we don’t answer to anyone. We don’t have ads and we don’t need them, hopefully ever. Content is created by fans, for fans
We are simply wanting to provide the most reliable and accurate source of all things Fallout. We’ve even broke bread with some of the other fantastic independent wikis out there, such as Doom Wiki and Combine Overwiki whom we recommend you check out too!
What kinds of new features are we offering?
We’re glad you asked! As well as offering a trove of accurate, well sourced content about the Fallout franchise (with strict guidelines to ensure the best possible content quality, as all wikis should), we’re offering a new Community space. This will be a place for the community to host all kinds of fan works, such as fanfiction, fan art, creations, roleplaying and tabletop games, pen and paper games, Fallout 76 player CAMPs and, much, much more.
As mentioned before, we have affiliated with many other independent wiki projects, including the Doom Wiki, Combine OverWiki, JoJo’s Bizarre Encyclopedia, StrategyWiki, Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages, and even Halopedia! We’re also proud members of the Gaming Wiki Network, and soon, we’ll even be affiliated with NIWA, the Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance. These affiliations will offer mutual aid and support that will help every wiki in the short-term and long-term. We are looking forward to working with them, for we all share the same goals!
How can we help and how can we be apart of the community?
We welcome anyone who wishes to join our community. It doesn’t matter if you’re an editor or reader. We are all fans of Fallout and we encourage you to join our community! If you are a non-editor and are only looking for information about something from the Fallout franchise, click this here link! https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Fallout_Wiki/
If you are interested in becoming an editor and want to fight the good fight to help rewrite content and smashing misinformation and head-canon, click this other here link! https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Special:UserLogin
While you’re there, check out our LGBTQ representation page. It was written by the lovely robot, C0NN1E here on Tumblr!: 
https://fallout.wiki/wiki/LGBTQ_representation_in_Fallout
We welcome all members of the LGBTQ+, MOGAI, GSRM, Plural and Otherkin communities with open arms!
Last, but not least, if you’d like to be apart of our wider social community, you can follow us here on Tumblr, on Twitter, check out our Instagram or join our Discord, right here below, right now! We even got a fresh, custom invite link!
https://discord.gg/falloutwiki
https://twitter.com/thefalloutwiki
https://www.instagram.com/thefalloutwiki/
Well, that about wraps up this little segment of ours. We hope you enjoy this project as much as we do. We put a lot of time, effort and care into it and we want to give back to the people that we love the most, the community. Have safe travels out there, and we hope to see you around!
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noudenet · 7 months
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THE PATHOLOGIC WIKI HAS MOVED TO WIKI.GG!
hey everyone! i'm Mani, i've done a lot of work on the Pathologic wiki in the past and i'm so happy to announce that the wiki is now hosted at wiki.gg!
it's no secret Fandom is, well, not that good, like at all. wiki.gg is a much smaller host but also is home to other wikis like Wowpedia and hopes to grow! The Fandom wiki for Pathologic will remain up (and the Fandom based wikis for The Void, Cargo!, and Knock-knock will remain as is for now as well) but won't be edited from the main team of the Pathologic wiki any longer.
I ask that you spread this post around, and if you want to contribute to the Pathologic wiki, to help us on wiki.gg!
there's always work to be done on wikis, and with Bachelor route rumours popping up every few months I hope to see more work done on the Pathologic wiki as time goes on. Thank you all for your support and I hope that we can grow on wiki.gg even further!
https:// pathologic . wiki . gg/Wiki/Pathologic_Wiki is the url without tumblr auto linking, just remove the spaces!
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wis-art · 4 months
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lesbian, trans and proud
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one-time-i-dreamt · 1 year
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My history teacher handed me a page of the Shrek Wiki and told me I was officially bisexual.
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lilyveselka · 3 months
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[Image: a screenshot of a Wikipedia-style article for a character named Nines/Dr. Phoenix. She is a white midsize woman with red hair in an undercut, and wearing a lab coat. The text of the page is long and biographical. /End ID]
I'm very excited to announce that the unofficial SCP-963 wiki is live! We're extremely proud to represent a talented network of SCP fans who are creating new, original characters to replace an avatar that doesn't represent our community's values.
(If you'd like us to add a page for your own SCP-963 rewrite, just contact me or fill out the form on the home page -- we're always accepting new articles featuring people's original creative work!)
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wikipediapictures · 7 months
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Jack-o’-lantern
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bornt-urnge · 6 months
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THE HOLLOW KNIGHT WIKI HAS OFFICIALLY MOVED TO HOLLOWKNIGHT. WIKI
Due to Fandom's failings as a wiki hosting site (overabundance of ads, poor formatting, a shift to pushing videos and social media over information, and most recently an attempt to add AI Answers to the site), I and the other admins on the Hollow Knight Wiki have made the decision to fork the existing wiki onto hollowknight.wiki, effective immediately.
This means all future wiki info for Hollow Knight AND Silksong will be hosted at hollowknight.wiki!
Please be patient as we work out all the bugs! (ha)
ONCE MORE: We urge all users to move all wiki activity (browsing AND editing) to
hollowknight.wiki
You can also use the Indie Wiki Buddy extension to automatically redirect Fandom links to the new wiki!
View the Reddit announcement here!
Tell your friends!
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sixbucks · 1 year
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The Vintage Patterns Wiki has over 83,500 sewing patterns dating until 1992. Browsing by decade, it's fascinating the see how fashion evolves over time. (Link below.)
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