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Hello everyone,

i created this Account to do some minor updates to the ftbwiki ;)

I initially just wanted to add the FTB Infinity Modpack to the Wiki but since the Frontpage is protected, it seems pretty ... well impossible :D


It's also obvious that the Frontpage is a little outdated and that the resurrection pack seems a little corrupted (No Version numbers).

Btw who did these Main buttons ? http://ftbwiki.org/i...MainButtons.png

They look pretty awesome but definitly need an update too ;)

If you are feared, that someone will deface the Front Page, why don't you make it editable only for registered users and create a force check by Admins right before the chanes will be applied ?

Anyways, thank you for your great work, this wiki was excessivly used while i was playing FTB :)



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Hey! Thanks for posting actual feedback.

 

I'll try and answer your questions.

 

The frontpage is protected to prevent vandalism, yeah. You need a contributor status or higher to edit it. To get such a status, just make some edits on the wiki. One of admins will check them and, if everything is ok, you will receive a contributor status soon :) It is almost equal to the force-check solution you've offered.

 

Most of the main page buttons were made by http://ftbwiki.org/User:Artsja who sadly went MIA long time ago.

 

The front page in general went outdated because most of the admins are busy polishing the general modded MC wiki section, which hasn't been released yet. But I will gladly give you a contributor status. Remember: you need to have some edits on your record before we can promote you.


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Version numbers have been reported as being messed up and it is a caching issue, though that caching issue should have fixed itself by now...


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If the modpack page has no infobox (or if the version parameters aren't set) the version numbers won't appear either, which seems to be the case here.



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I looked at the source page that it is getting the information from and there are version numbers there.
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I looked at the source page that it is getting the information from and there are version numbers there. 


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I looked at the source page that it is getting the information from and there are version numbers there.


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I looked at the source page that it is getting the information from and there are version numbers there.

 

What I was actually going to say - all the SMW queries are slowing down the load time of the main page *A LOT*. To be exact, 5.282 of the total 6.370 seconds are taken up by the modpack lists. There are two solutions I can think of - reduce the number of modpacks listed on the main page, or make static copies of the queries using substitution and update those every now and then. The former would be a better solution IMO, but what do others think?



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I looked at the source page that it is getting the information from and there are version numbers there.

 

What I was actually going to say - all the SMW queries are slowing down the load time of the main page *A LOT*. To be exact, 5.282 of the total 6.370 seconds are taken up by the modpack lists. There are two solutions I can think of - reduce the number of modpacks listed on the main page, or make static copies of the queries using substitution and update those every now and then. The former would be a better solution IMO, but what do others think?

How about just making a list of the legacy packs and linking to them rather than having them listed with version and mods?


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How about just making a list of the legacy packs and linking to them rather than having them listed with version and mods?

That idea's a good one.


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That idea's a good one.

I agree with this sentiment.


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How about just making a list of the legacy packs and linking to them rather than having them listed with version and mods?

Or that. The load time for the "current" packs is still about 3.5 seconds, but it's an improvement at least.



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There are suggested improvements for performance with SMW on the website, but I'm not sure how they would affect the operation of the wiki.



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Or that. The load time for the "current" packs is still about 3.5 seconds, but it's an improvement at least.

Good idea, but since I noticed, you just removed all "legacy" stuff from the frontpage :/

Before doing such an action, why didn't you at least consider adding a link to all legacy packs ?



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Good idea, but since I noticed, you just removed all "legacy" stuff from the frontpage :/

Before doing such an action, why didn't you at least consider adding a link to all legacy packs ?

Just re-read RZR0's post - the first time I didn't understand it as "make a list of links instead of full boxes", but as "remove the legacy packs altogether". Whoops. Is it that important though to have the legacy packs on the main page? If you want to you can find all packs in the navboxes and Category:Modpacks.



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Just re-read RZR0's post - the first time I didn't understand it as "make a list of links instead of full boxes", but as "remove the legacy packs altogether". Whoops. Is it that important though to have the legacy packs on the main page? If you want to you can find all packs in the navboxes and Category:Modpacks.

Well... they ARE legacy packs.
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