Forum talk:Moving in

Why not Halopedia.com ?
Notice the lack of the letter 'N'. So why not halopedia.com? Does somebody already own it?

Moving content
Having recently arrived from my week-long absence, I noticed you already got this place up and running. I'm happy to see we got enough support for the move, but before I start editing, I have a couple of questions.

First, just how does the automatic content transitioning process (from the Wikia Halopedia to this one) work? Is it still in progress or is it already done in its entirety? For example, if someone edits an article in the other wiki right now, will the recent edits be transferred here at some point or not? I'm just making sure, since as of yet, a lot of pages seem to be missing here and I'm not sure if I should just wait patiently or start moving some of them by copy-pasting. Also, are the user contributions tied to the transitioning process in any way or will all content be moved here regardless of whether the user will sign up here or not? --Jugus (Talk  | Contribs ) 15:44, 17 October 2010 (EDT)
 * The content was imported here via a dump file that Porplemontage downloaded. Because it was about 2 weeks old, that's why there's still some stuff missing, but we're working on getting it all here. User contribs from that date backwards have also been imported. Unfortunately, contribs are not linked between the two wikis; meaning that if one were to edit on halo wikia, it won't effect anything here, since there's not really anything that can be done to make that possible. The general idea is that everybody continues their halopedia work on here instead of on wikia. To answer your last question: No, everything is transferred regardless. The transfer has finished, so the only way to access accounts with contribs is to login with their wikia passwords. Which makes sense, so as to prevent impersonations (please correct me if I misunderstood any of you questions, as its very late here atm). Nicmavr 16:01, 17 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Thanks, that about answers both of my questions. Just wanted some clarification as to how the whole content moving process works and why some of the pages aren't showing up here. --Jugus (Talk  | Contribs ) 16:08, 17 October 2010 (EDT)
 * In addition, we've requested an updated dump file from wikia. We'll import it (which is by extension, the missing articles) as soon as its ready. Nicmavr 16:15, 17 October 2010 (EDT)
 * That's nice to hear - we've gotten loads of new content in the past few weeks, and moving all of that manually would be a herculean task.--Jugus (Talk  | Contribs ) 04:28, 18 October 2010 (EDT)

What of the old adress? it still functions, will it stay how it is and just not be used, or will it be cleared out? Jabberwockxeno 19:09, 20 October 2010 (EDT)

Anyone?Jabberwockxeno 18:39, 23 October 2010 (EDT)


 * I'm assuming you're referring to the Halo.Wikia and not Halopedia.org.
 * Halo.Wikia will continue to function and will not be closed by Wikia Staff due to their Terms of Use clause. As such, content in the wiki will remain there and as such would become unused/outdated. -  5 əb'7 aŋk (7alk ) 18:59, 23 October 2010 (EDT)


 * I figured as much. then can someone at least put the "Halopedia has moved" thing back on it's front page? I don't want people to mistakenly use that one or edit those articles and not the ones here... Jabberwockxeno 16:12, 25 October 2010 (EDT)


 * We would love to, but Wikia's not letting us. Or at least a few days back they didn't. See the relevant discussion here. --Jugus (Talk  | Contribs ) 16:17, 25 October 2010 (EDT)
 * Wikia is wikia, what d'you expect? The only reason they're holding us back is because they're desperate... they lost Wowwiki, they lost Halopedia, they lost the GTA wiki. And that's just out of a long list of forked wikis. - Major.png Nìcmávr  ( Tálk  ) 16:20, 25 October 2010 (EDT)


 * The problem is that once the Administration Team has done so, Wikia Staff will revert the edit made and would deny that Halopedia moved. Wikia, as a business/company, cares only for the wiki content and not the community. As such, even if the community has decided to move out from Wikia, the company would leave the wiki open regardless of the outcome. You can read it more on Wikipedia's article on the large Wiki migration. Check out the cited references for more information.
 * Additionally, if the Administration Team insists on adding back the notice back, they would be demoted by the staff and labelled as vandals. As such, the only thing the Administration Team is allowed to do is add a little notice that would go unnoticed by other users and visitors. Hopefully, you could spread the word in Bungie.net to avoid using halo.wikia.com.. Content in that wiki will be severely outdated by next year. - <font face="Century Gothic"> <font color="#FF4F00">5 əb<font color="#FF4F00">'7 aŋk (<font color="#FF4F00">7alk ) 16:20, 25 October 2010 (EDT)

I just saw halo.wikia.com It's back to the regular theme. --RadiationNeon 01:17, 26 October 2010 (EDT)

Page moves
Hi, I was just browsing the pages when I noticed that Luro 'Taralumee was still at Unnamed Fleet Master (The Package), its old name. Nothing to be too concerned about, such things happen when a wiki is moved. But as I was planning to move the page to its proper name, I found that the page move option has disappeared. Since I've seen several pages be moved since arriving, has page move been disabled for certain people? -- SFH 16:58, 17 October 2010 (EDT)

No, my guess would be that your user rights are set to Users instead of Autoconfirmed users. Second Lieutenant  Keith Johnson   com link 17:20, 17 October 2010 (EDT)

Welcome
Hey, I set up a nice new welcome template using some code from wars wiki and was wondering if I could implement it. - S.B.44   [Talk] |undefined 23:06, 17 October 2010 (EDT)

Clarity
To be clear, is this the new wiki? Is this the one to edit on? Also, did this one move to Wiki, or did the Wiki one move here? Halo&CoD 20:16 p.m. 4 December 2010