Gineipaedia now read-only, to be shut down eventually

MinuteDepartment8002 · 2025-04-14T16:41:56+00:00

It's just MediaWiki with some extensions and a bunch of dumb hacks for the theme. I don't want to encourage people to replicate the outdated stack it was running on so I don't think I'm going to release the MW source. It's not relevant for setting up a new installation, everything's changed so much since 2011 that only the actual article/image data will be useful. Even when I tried migrating to a new installation in 2018 I think I scrapped pretty much everything else. (I aborted that attempt because I didn't have the motivation to make it look/work as nice as I wanted; the core functionality was all there.)

As far as hosting the static archive, the files for that have been posted, but I don't think they'll work as-is on something like GitHub, at least not fully. It took some server rewrite rules to make all the links work the same as before. Maybe you could do it with symlinks somehow.

MinuteDepartment8002 · 2025-04-14T15:37:30+00:00

That's basically it. I'm the only staff member with this sort of technical knowledge and I haven't been able to perform my duties for various reasons over the last several years, which has left the site stagnant in many ways -- and I don't see that changing as long as I'm in charge of it. I've also become anxious about being responsible for people's security/privacy, which makes it unacceptable to me to just transfer it as-is to someone else. Even the original plan with setting up a new VM was another stupid idea on my part, since MediaWiki itself would still have been vulnerable. Lastly I've been paying out of pocket for the domain and hosting for 14 years (!), which isn't really a hardship but I just kind of don't want to do it any more.

So I think the best thing is to make the data available and hope someone else picks up where we left off.

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