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MediaWiki has been installed.
The default main page was keen on mentioning this, in case you were unable to deduce this from the fact that you were reading this in a wiki, presumably because you were having a stroke.

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Create new pages here

(Or if you search for a page that doesn't exist, you can create it from the resulting page)

The state of the Wiki

This is now our second tango with WikiMedia - now hosted on Amazon Web Services. The older Home Page can be found in this page's history.

New benefits

• What You See Is What You Get editor is finally live! No more need to use those godawful "<br>" tags for linebreaks anymore. I do think this is a very decent editor, myself. You can of course always use "Edit Source" in order to use the old system for more fine-tuning, if you so choose. Still remember to add signatures in Talk pages, though now you have a button for that.
• Slightly more consistent skin usage. If you aren't already, I recommend using "Dark Vector" for optimal viewing. If you want more skins, say so and I will import them.
• The AWS server is now under our full control. It's not very powerful, but it IS mostly idle, and nothing stops us from running side-projects. If you ask nicely you can have SSH credentials and some explanations.
• Upgrading to latest wiki version and loading various plugins and themes should be super easy, barely an inconvenience. Ask if you want any plugins and I'll get 'em.
• Vectron is pleased. At least, that seems probable!
• Space piracy protection - the basic AWS Frigate* service comes with ground batteries and a 30-missile launcher array, as well as just-in-time patrol services. Starlane defense is provided by EC2 Fleet**, of course. If you want to upgrade to the Advanced package for star system monitoring and Space Denial Area, that will cost extra but let me know.

_{* Service may be made-up}

_{** Service is not imaginary but may not actually include what I say it does.}

Work still to do

This was a bit of a rush job, but I will start improving on things quickly now, probably.

• Site certificate needs to be changed so you don't get those annoying security warnings.
• Thumbnails for .tif files - haven't checked if this works or not. Still not sure why you're even using that format.
• Uploading arbitrary file types - haven't checked this either.
• No easy way to start a new civ from template - MediaWiki Templates don't work in the same way. Right now you have to manually copy from the Template:Civilization page. Need to look into maybe this new version allows something more convenient.
• A thumbnail on the browser tab - well now that I know how favicons work, we'll have one on soon.
• Sound off if you want anything on the side bar that isn't there yet.

Obligatory Getting started section that came with this thing

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list
• Localise MediaWiki for your language (ironically, my browser marks "localise" as a typo. I guess my browser isn't localised to the UK...)
• Learn how to combat spam on your wiki