GPWiki will be going through a few changes over the next few weeks.

• I've bought a better server that will allow us to do more with the site. The content will be moving over in chunks, it should all go fairly smoothly. However, I'm letting you all know ahead of time that things are going on behind the scenes, so you'll if things do get a little lumpy, you'll know why.
• The GameDev management are shutting down their wiki (forked from GPWiki in 2008), we're getting to merge any new content back into GPWiki, but it'll take a while. The GameDev wiki users should transfer too, but I haven't tested the process yet.
• The structure of the site will change to allow better separation of elements, new areas and a landing page that isn't Wiki-based.

That's all that's planned for now, we'll keep you posted as things move on.

If you have any suggestion or ideas that you'd like to see on GPWiki, hit the reply button and let us know.

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I've spent a (mostly) happy evening with my head in code (for a change) and written a custom mediawiki extension that pulls book information from Amazon's AWS API to make GPWiki's book pages a bit nicer.

You can see it in action at http://content.gpwiki.org/index.php/Obj ... d_Patterns.

To use it, just add the following tag with an ISBN-10 or ASIN number to a page:

The extension will run off and get the book details and place them in a a nice little infobox.

You can also specify an alternative title for the book by using a second parameter thus:

Some book titles are huge and specifying a shorter title stops the info box from spreading right over the page.

I've just worked out how to link to the Amazon book page too, but I can add that in later. Enjoy! I'm going to bed.

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The linked page says the following for me:


Also, can we get the Lil' Endian favicon back?

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It was working last night! Will take a look.



I didn't realise he'd gone. Working on that too.

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Fixed the Amazon extension. The timestamp on the AWS query string was formatted incorrectly. I had a similar thing last night when the early morning timestamps lacked a leading zero.

There seems to be a caching thing going on, let me know if you can see the infobox (without having to refresh the page).

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I have returned.

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The DNS for the gpwiki.org domain is moving to the new server today. So far the changes haven't caused major loss of function, but if this goes wrong, the site will drop off the Internet.

It may take a day or two for the DNS to propagate, but the old server will keep redirecting to the subdomains until it's complete.

Fingers crossed.

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The DNS seems to have gone over already. I've hit the site from a few different computers and some are already resolving to the new TLD location. *Phew* I'm not seeing any problems, but please let me know if you stumble across any.

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Favicon is fixed on the forum but seems to still be blank on the wiki.

The book plug-in is working for me now - really cool!

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Hmmm, the wiki favicon works for me. I had to do some hacking in the wiki config, but the url is correct. Not sure why it isn't showing for you.



Thank you. it still needs some work, but I like it.

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These appear to be hyperlinks, but I cannot click them. I can't select the text either.

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Are you using an old version of Firefox? 3.6-ish? The issue has been mentioned, I've written a new page header using tables that should be more accessible. I'll try and upload the new version tonight.

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I use camino 2.0.9 which uses the same version of Gecko as Firefox 3.6.

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Tweaked front page menu header uploaded. Should work with older browsers now.

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Weirdness -- I tried to test it in FF3.6 when I was writing the landing page, but never noticed that the links and such were borked.

Sorry about that!

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I notice that our post edit buttons have reverted to their whiter shade of pale. Is this intentional?

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I'm guessing with the forum software upgrade they may have been "restored," so to say. I'm gonna miss Pinky.

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Wow, I actually didn't even notice that

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It's a fresh install of the latest phpBB. I'm slowly adding the mods from the old board. Missed that one.
I'm away from home at the moment, but I'll dig up the old pink button when I get back to a decent Internet connection.

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You could define a new style, rather than keep editing the default style.

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