A few days ago, I announced on Facebook that I was working on upgrading ShoutWiki to the newest MediaWiki version, 1.20. For those who don’t know, MediaWiki is the base web application that ShoutWiki is based off, along with Wikipedia, Wikia and many other sites out there on the world wide web. This wasn’t necessary [...]
Hi, This is the fortnightly update, detailing what we’ve done since the last fortnightly update, which was published on 15 September 2012 and what are our plans for the future. Recent updates Since our last fortnightly update, four bug tickets were closed. Two wikis were imported to ShoutWiki: Darren Shan Wiki — an English-language wiki [...]
Hi, This is the fortnightly update, detailing what we’ve done since the last fortnightly update, which was published on 1 September 2012 and what are our plans for the future. Recent updates Our developers have mostly been working on backend things during this period. Namely, we’ve set up an analytics site that uses the great [...]
Hi, We have decided to start posting more frequent updates to keep you informed about what we are currently working on to make ShoutWiki a better place. Recent updates A security release for the MediaWiki software was announced on 31 August, and we have updated all ShoutWiki wikis to this new version, 1.19.2. As we [...]
Hello users. ShoutWiki will be going offline on August 4th (UTC) for scheduled maintenance. Why are we doing this? You may have noticed that ShoutWiki has been fairly slow recently. This is an issue affecting all users and is rather annoying. The maintenance is expected to get the site running significantly faster meaning less loading [...]
Have you ever wondered just how many wikis ShoutWiki hosts? I bet you have, and so have we at the staff team at times. Finding that out has been easy, thanks to the {{NUMBEROFWIKIS}} magic word. But what if you have wanted to know how many of those wikis are French, for example? Or how [...]
One of the features that both users and the staff alike have been wanting for a while has been instant database dumps. Now we’re thrilled to announce you that such a feature is finally available! Where do I find this feature? The instant database dump generation feature is available on the statistics page, Special:Statistics, of [...]
This is a copy of an email I sent out to all users that our database listed as people that had used Special:CreateWiki to found a wiki. Dear ShoutWiki user, I am writing to you because our database tells us that you have at some point in the past, created a wiki on ShoutWiki.com through [...]
Dear users, I am writing to inform you of our continued efforts to restore and stabilise the site and all wikis hosted on ShoutWiki.com. Over the course of this weekend, new staff members have been appointed roles on the ShoutWiki.com staff team, to replace those who have more recently resigned. We hope that with this [...]
Earlier in April I promised changes in various areas of the site, including people. Now the time for these changes has come. It is my pleasure to announce the newest additions to the ShoutWiki staff — all of whom have ties to Britain! Callum Walmsley (Solar Dragon) joins the Customer Support Team with years of [...]