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Hello everyone,

 

Just to let you know that I'm aware that the wiki is currently down. I'm doing everything I can to get it back up.

It seems there might be a hardware problem related to the server. It affected the wiki's database (probably because it has become extremely huge + the traffic is big too; and there was a read/write failure). I'm working with support to see what we can do and what are our options. And to make things worse, it seems that because of this issue (partly), the automatic backuping system that I had in place for the database didn't quite work as expected and the last (manual) backup is from December 11th, 2013. You can believe me when I say that I'm extremely disappointed with this situation. I really thought that everything was under control at this point and that the backups were being made as they should have... I hope there's still a way to recover the current database and we'll do everything we can for that but I'd rather be 100% honest with you guys and let you know that the worst-case scenario would be a rollback to December 11th... I'm really sorry. I may have to consider yet another server upgrade. It looks like the traffic keeps increasing and increasing and the hardware sometimes has a hard time to keep up..

 

In any case, I'll keep you updated as soon as there's some news.

 

I thank you for your understanding!

 

Maurice

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Well, I might have some sort of good news, I apparently have some sort of second sense that the wiki could have eventual problems, so I made backups of the top twenty five most visited articles on Feb 6. I do know also that the internet archive has a backup from Feb 9, 2014 and Google cached on Feb 6, 2014 (If you remember editing something, please look at this resource!), so there is also that resource.

Also, Maurice, maybe you could give us some diagnostics on how to keep page size down to reduce the server burden?

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Articles rescued: Gallery images for galleries I made

02/14/2014 06:58 PM 48,726 A Happy E-mail Brings Sadness - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:11 PM 40,002 Akai family - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:11 PM 57,464 Akai family's middle brother - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:52 PM 707,406 Anime - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/06/2014 11:09 AM 46,194 DCW Ai Haibara 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 10:56 AM 44,863 DCW Black Organization 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:00 AM 21,651 DCW Boss of the Black Organization 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:08 AM 16,458 DCW Characters 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:16 AM 49,317 DCW Conan Edogawa 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:33 AM 23,011 DCW Conan Edogawa and Ai Haibara 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:00 AM 9,330 DCW Fusae Campbell 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:31 AM 46,440 DCW Gin 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:27 AM 40,944 DCW Heiji Hattori 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:30 AM 20,504 DCW Heiji Hattori Appearances 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:32 AM 14,783 DCW Hidemi Hondou 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:17 AM 25,377 DCW Kaitou Kid 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:31 AM 9,043 DCW Kaitou Kid Appearances 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:29 AM 50,102 DCW Kogoro Mouri 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:30 AM 22,523 DCW List of minor recurring manga characters 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:10 AM 45,216 DCW Masumi Sera 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:17 AM 17,139 DCW Movies 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:28 AM 19,793 DCW Music 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:19 AM 37,327 DCW Ran Mouri 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:33 AM 33,159 DCW Shiho Miyano 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:09 AM 45,714 DCW Shinichi Kudo 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:29 AM 67,352 DCW Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:17 AM 53,364 DCW Shuichi Akai 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:01 AM 49,916 DCW Subaru Okiya 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:18 AM 51,145 DCW Tooru Amuro 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 10:49 AM 57,509 DCW Vermouth 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:04 AM 39,373 DCW Vermouth timeline 2-6-2014.txt

02/06/2014 11:32 AM 11,139 DCW Yukiko Kudo 2-6-2014.txt

02/14/2014 06:57 PM 47,482 Kaitou Kid and the Blush Mermaid - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 05:55 PM 71,177 Kaitou Kid timeline - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:26 PM 45,052 List of characters who know Ai Haibara'sidentity - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:26 PM 64,110 List of characters who know Conan's identity - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:26 PM 58,219 List of characters who know Kaitou Kid's identity - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:52 PM 157,875 Manga - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:26 PM 145,100 Masumi Sera - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:22 PM 44,894 Prototype antidote - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:55 PM 128,021 Sherry's soliloquy - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:06 PM 157,559 Shinichi Kudo - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 05:54 PM 75,362 Suguru Itakura - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:56 PM 54,133 Sweet and Cold Delivery Service - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:59 PM 32,871 The Diamond, the Painting, and the Great Actress - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:59 PM 45,025 The Treasure Chest Filled With Fruits - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:09 PM 46,162 Unknown child - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 05:53 PM 52,422 User Chekhov MacGuffin - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

02/14/2014 06:19 PM 50,647 User Chekhov MacGuffin_Image rescue - Detective Conan Wiki.htm

Articles lost: Minor gadgets page and associated templates, the text of the Sniper from Another Dimesnion Article (I have some of the pictures.)

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Thank you Chekhov! Thanks for thinking ahead and for your incredible commitment. I greatly appreciate it! It's really awesome to know I can count on you, the admins and the community in times of trouble!

 

Fortunately, I was able to retrieve some cached files from the pages that have been created/modified recently. The wiki will remain locked until we (the admins) can fix it the best we can.

 

Regarding your question, the page size isn't a big problem in regards to the server traffic (fortunately). Most of the data is saved in the database. There are other bottlenecks and most of them are hardware or network-related. I'll look into further optimizing the server resources and utilization.

 

Thanks again!

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Thank you sir for fixing the site. Its really good to know that you guys(ADMIN) are really dedicated on this website. I am a DC fan, and this website helps me understand the story more. And i hope you finish it soon because im really eager to read those info about DC. And this is the best website for it. So we are counting on all of you sir.

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Well at least if you start from scratch you will not make errors. What if the backup info you had was corrupted or had a lot more errors? Don't worry, you made this awesome site you can make it even better.

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amazing website ..... there are updates that you are doing i know.... but i  want you to do them asap  especially the page about  - Shinichi and Ran 

 

it only showed till episode 646 i guess but never mind you should update it and laso others 

 

 

great appreciation to your hard work ... as a fan this is best site i founded 

 

ty 

 

love from india  :)

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To the admin & the moderators,

Hello!! Long time no see, but I'm still aware of your everyday hard work. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. You're the best people. I promise I would do my best to continue what I left in the future (I still haven't forgotten; all is bookmarked :lol: )

Love you all :wub:

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Just to let you all know we did have to roll back to an December 2013 version of the wiki like Maurice said, but Maurice managed to save cached copies of all the articles that were updated between then and now! (Go Maurice!) All the mods are manually trying to restore the articles that were changed between December and now. Not all is lost, and we are fixing it as best and quickly as we can.

 

It's a huge job, there are hundred of pages that have been edited in two months and tons of pictures added. Just to give you an idea, here are all the main space pages only left to do.

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And here are the pictures we need to upload again

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If I get another update, I will let you all know.

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Hello! I know I'm a new member but I joined especially because I love this site so much. Been lurking for a while now... To all mods and admin, if you need help on anything at all please don't hesitate to ask. I'm willing to help in any way I can. :) I miss the wiki so much, dakara.... T____T

 

Goodluck on the whole restoration thing! Rooting for u guys to finish as soon as you all can :)

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Oh my god! That's a huge articles that need to be done back inside wiki, maybe require 1-2 weeks to restore it back.

How about mods try to pick up some active member (non-moderator) to help you all about restoration things?

Good luck!

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As Chek said, there's quite a bit of work but we'll get there for sure! Thank you all for your patience. :)

 

  On 2/24/2014 at 8:08 AM, shahril said:

Oh my god! That's a huge articles that need to be done back inside wiki, maybe require 1-2 weeks to restore it back.

How about mods try to pick up some active member (non-moderator) to help you all about restoration things?

Good luck!

 

That's indeed an idea we're considering. We'll possibly contact some reliable editors to help out.

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Volunteers with experience on wikis would definitely be helpful.

For mainspace articles we have 136 restored and 357 remaining to be restored + 50 or so templates, talk pages, and userpages. And a zillion files are still missing. I calculate that if it were just me working alone it would take a month...

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  On 2/24/2014 at 7:37 PM, Chekhov MacGuffin said:

Volunteers with experience on wikis would definitely be helpful.

For mainspace articles we have 136 restored and 357 remaining to be restored + 50 or so templates, talk pages, and userpages. And a zillion files are still missing. I calculate that if it were just me working alone it would take a month...

 

Zannen, my experience only covers forum management T___T i'm sorry to say, I don't know how to do stuffs on wiki T___T although I wanna help so much, I'll just root for u to finish it as soon as u can~ and here's hoping others with experience will help out.. :) Ganbatte ne!

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  On 2/14/2014 at 10:51 PM, Chekhov MacGuffin said:

Well, I might have some sort of good news, I apparently have some sort of second sense that the wiki could have eventual problems, so I made backups of the top twenty five most visited articles on Feb 6. I do know also that the internet archive has a backup from Feb 9, 2014 and Google cached on Feb 6, 2014 (If you remember editing something, please look at this resource!), so there is also that resource.

 

 

Would you like to share the backup, please?

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  On 2/26/2014 at 5:10 AM, blackhiden said:

Would you like to share the backup, please?

The internet archive?

You'll have to look up how to do google cache. It seems google might have delisted the wiki or changed something about their search because it has been down a while.

My personal text backups are probably not going to help people much more than the slightly outdated internet archive site will. Most of the the 25 articles I copied are character articles. I can answer anyone's specific questions if they want a reference to an article while the wiki is in locked for fixing mode. (What episode is the one where X happens, etc.)

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