There were some database issues on the backend that affected other wikis besides our own, those issues are now resolved, all issues should be dealt with.
Social Profile works fine now, users can either use that or the standard wiki page, their call. I have put in a request to add a bunch of other related extensions for SocialProfile now that that has been fixed, and I'll cover them as they go online and are fully functional, and there is a reason for this:
SocialProfile is a MediaWiki agnostic spinoff of a lot of Wikia specific features meant to encourage user growth and interaction, and they are being implemented to attempt to use them to provide us a boost to our membership and interaction. This also closes a gap we have with TV Tropes, which has already implemented some of these features in their own way.
The WikiForum extension is also stable, and it will work with uploaded avatars, so if any user uploads an avatar (they can still use the basic userpage), it will hook into the forum automatically, and speaking of the WikiForum, I was considering making it the third itineration of our forum system should it prove stable enough (with the Flow version preserved for fallback reasons), and I would like opinions on this and for the other admins to give their own evaluation of the WikiForum extension before I proceed further, which can be found here:
http://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:WikiForum
If these features prove more trouble than they are worth, for whatever reason, I will get them removed again, so I ask both users and admins provide me feedback on them. More information on SocialProfile can be found here, for those who wish to examine what it does for themselves and so be able to offer further suggestions on settings and related extensions:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile
Social Profile works fine now, users can either use that or the standard wiki page, their call. I have put in a request to add a bunch of other related extensions for SocialProfile now that that has been fixed, and I'll cover them as they go online and are fully functional, and there is a reason for this:
SocialProfile is a MediaWiki agnostic spinoff of a lot of Wikia specific features meant to encourage user growth and interaction, and they are being implemented to attempt to use them to provide us a boost to our membership and interaction. This also closes a gap we have with TV Tropes, which has already implemented some of these features in their own way.
The WikiForum extension is also stable, and it will work with uploaded avatars, so if any user uploads an avatar (they can still use the basic userpage), it will hook into the forum automatically, and speaking of the WikiForum, I was considering making it the third itineration of our forum system should it prove stable enough (with the Flow version preserved for fallback reasons), and I would like opinions on this and for the other admins to give their own evaluation of the WikiForum extension before I proceed further, which can be found here:
http://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:WikiForum
If these features prove more trouble than they are worth, for whatever reason, I will get them removed again, so I ask both users and admins provide me feedback on them. More information on SocialProfile can be found here, for those who wish to examine what it does for themselves and so be able to offer further suggestions on settings and related extensions:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SocialProfile