Forum:Moving in

Hey all,

As of October 17th, our proposal to move to our new domain, here, has been passed! Our content has been imported from wikia halopedia to halopedian.com. The process was by no means a quick one, but has made everything easier.

Logging in
If you already had an account on wikia Halopedia, you do not need to register again. Simply login with your original account and password, and your account data (ie. preferences) will be imported here.

What has been imported
Content, which defines pretty much everything in the namespace area: Articles, mediawiki namespaces, talk pages, etc. User accounts have also by extension been imported. To activate your account to be fully functional, simply login for the first time here and that's that. This also imports your account preferences from wikia (ie. skins, formats, etc).

Unfortunately, we regret to say that social profile info has not been imported due to the code being unavailable and wikia deleting them from their database. This includes personal info and avatars. You will have to re-add these manually, but the fortunate side to the social profile's nature is that this doesn't usually take too long to do.

Additionally, userpages will also have to be imported manually from wikia. Fortunately, this can be done in a few seconds with copy-paste of your wikia userpages. Some users may have issues with their UserWiki when they save them here; not a serious issue. This is mostly due to invalid tags that have not yet been enabled here. If anybody has any such issues, please let me know so it may be addressed and resolved as soon as possible.

Other than that, everybody is able to continue their routine editing here. We're striving to have this site fully operational as before by January 2011. Help us make it possible!

Credits
First off I'd like to thank the community as a whole for their support to the proposal. The feedback we received, positive or negative has been a great asset in our research to making this move as convenient as possible. I'd also like to thank Porplemontage for allowing us to import our content and use his domain as well as the installation of several features that benefited the move and Jack Phoenix for supplying the code for those installations. As of course, without any of them, the move would not have been possible.

Skin
At the moment, we have Monobook as the default skin and Vector as an option for users. Monaco will be soon enabled as the default skin while allowing users to opt for Monobook or Vector as well.

User rights
Due to their nature, user rights cannot be imported automatically from wikia Halopedia. Anybody who currently holds any form of right (ie. Rollback, sysop) on wikia can request their rights here.

Bug reports
We've made the importing process as smooth as possible, so bugs should be relatively rare if not non-existent. Obviously, we can't exclude the possibility that anyone might run into a bug or wiki-related issue. If so, please make your reports here. Porplemontage and Jack Phoenix are the wiki's developers, and you may contact them on their talk pages if you need any fast technical-wise assistance. As a result of the move, Porple is also our newest addition to the administration team. Feel free to contact him, or any of the other admins, for any administrative assistance.

Questions?
Anything not covered above? Have any concerns or general questions? Feel free to ask or post relevant discussion here.

Now as we get settled in our new domain, we hope that our new site will quickly rise to the top. For that, we need you, the community, to help us strive to that. Our new system allows us to support each other as editors, admins or veterans alike. Any permanent changes to the wiki technical wise, including to the interface will be handled by the administration and the developers, in accordance to the community input. We encourage anybody who has a suggestion/opinion/issue to voice it to us. As it is, this is also a good time to do so as we finish implementing everything here. The is your community; help us improve it!

Rawr,

Nicmavr (talk)