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A short collection of [[Taylor]]s thoughts on the history of The [[WIDEVERSE]] and decisions made in documenting its storied 20+ year history | A short collection of [[Taylor]]s thoughts on the history of The [[WIDEVERSE]] and decisions made in documenting its storied 20+ year history | ||
= 06/23/24: | = 07/19/24: On Protecting Identities and Public Figures = | ||
In the six and change years we've been running this wiki, there's only been maybe one, two max instances of someone getting truly butthurt over information we've put here. There's been legit complaints as well that we've addressed, but nobodies really just shit themselves in anger demanding something get deleted or removed, but anytime someone has asked for something unreasonable, we always reply with the same thing: You knew what you were getting into. This site is no secret, its one of the first things you are linked to when joining any of The WIDEVERSE Discords, sites, etc. Joining WIDEVERSE is signing up to be somewhat in the public eye, its just how it is. And if you're in the public eye, you're going to be talked about. | |||
The problem here of course with that goes back to the previous blog post, regarding Photo Frens. Photo Frens exists within The WIDEVERSE now, but because it's a solely independent entity, we aren't imposing the same rules about public figures. As such, if you read the article for it, we have made the decisions to change names to protect certain peoples identities. Keyword here is certain, because several of the people involved have made themselves of their own volition as public figures. The name that comes to mind immediately is [[Kiko]]. Kiko is a streamer, photographer and general conman. His face, name, likeness, everything is out there for anyone to see. Because of this, there is no qualms then for us to document it. After all, he put it out there, would we be at fault to catalogue it? No, of course not, because he made his choice. Want to cry about it? Sucks, hire a lawyer. WMG has more money than you. | |||
Will this get applied evenly? No. There's a few "public figures" in Photo Frens that we will continue to protect the identity of, though any motivated actor could easily unmask them certainly, but that's true of anyone here, really. In the end, we want to protect people who have chosen to stay somewhat anonymous, especially people who are using real names. Its been tough trying to find the appropriate middle ground here, but we believe we finally have, and so regular updates can finally resume...hopefully (until someone else cries). | |||
= 06/23/24: What's Going On With The Wiki? = | |||
Much unlike me, I've been avoiding updating the wiki for some months. This naturally has led to the question: What's going on? | Much unlike me, I've been avoiding updating the wiki for some months. This naturally has led to the question: What's going on? | ||
Well, firstly I'd like to toot my own horn and say I fixed some major stuff behind the scenes, making the site run faster. No big deal, I'm the best. But to the content of the wiki, it's a little more complicated. | Well, firstly I'd like to toot my own horn and say I fixed some major stuff behind the scenes, making the site run faster. No big deal, I'm the best. But to the content of the wiki, it's a little more complicated. | ||
After The Haus Crew left the primary community that we had bene building for several years, we were lost for a little bit. Tevin suggested however we join a photography community called [[Photo Frens]]. It was a refreshing change of pace, to be part of someone elses community for once, not having to tackle every issue as if it was an existential threat to us. In time naturally, we've become rather engrained and involved in this community, so much to the extent that much of the antics have begun overlapping with the WIDEVERSE. The problem though is that within this community, many people use their real names and | After The Haus Crew left the primary community that we had bene building for several years, we were lost for a little bit. Tevin suggested however we join a photography community called [[Photo Frens]]. It was a refreshing change of pace, to be part of someone elses community for once, not having to tackle every issue as if it was an existential threat to us. In time naturally, we've become rather engrained and involved in this community, so much to the extent that much of the antics have begun overlapping with the WIDEVERSE. The problem though is that within this community, many people use their real names and identities, and that has made it very difficult to document the happenings here on a public site. | ||
I decided that to finally start creating new articles, I'm going to assign aliases to most the people involved. Expect new updates to start coming from here on out. | I decided that to finally start creating new articles, I'm going to assign aliases to most the people involved. Expect new updates to start coming from here on out. | ||
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I took the wiki down for a few weeks while I experimented with updating it to the newest version of Mediawiki. It was disastrous, and I had to start over, but the second attempt was pretty good. We now have the VisualEditor, which is great and haven't lost much, if any, functionality. There might be one issue that pops up but if it does that's a then issue. | I took the wiki down for a few weeks while I experimented with updating it to the newest version of Mediawiki. It was disastrous, and I had to start over, but the second attempt was pretty good. We now have the VisualEditor, which is great and haven't lost much, if any, functionality. There might be one issue that pops up but if it does that's a then issue. | ||
Another outstanding issue is regarding the wikis skin. Currently, the default is set to Vector, however, an updated Vector is being worked on, and is really good. The problem is it | Another outstanding issue is regarding the wikis skin. Currently, the default is set to Vector, however, an updated Vector is being worked on, and is really good. The problem is it doesn't allow defaulting to full width, and instead looks like a mobile phone page. Until there's more updates to it to let me make it fullscreen the whole time, Im keeping the default to the original Vector, because trying to design the wiki around both versions would be super annoying. | ||
Getting VisualEditor to work natively was a big impetuous for this. It makes editing so much easier, especially for old stuff. I can't explain how much easier it is to just drag and drop pictures instead of having to go through several step processes to add them to pages. | Getting VisualEditor to work natively was a big impetuous for this. It makes editing so much easier, especially for old stuff. I can't explain how much easier it is to just drag and drop pictures instead of having to go through several step processes to add them to pages. | ||