Sasuke Maniac & Sasukepedia 2.0

[Anshin]

We're working on the development of Sasukepedia 2.0, and Sasuke Maniac 2.0.

Sasukepedia 2.0 is a fork of the current Sasukepedia, providing that it uses the old Monaco theme, and the new (current) color scheme; with a full browser width instead of a fixed width. And we won't be on the Wikia network anymore, we would be our own.

Sasuke Maniac 2.0 is a complete overhaul of the fansite and community forums. We're going to be integrating the two into a seamless CMS with alot of features that are interesting, ambitious, pointless, and awesome. SM2.0 may not happen for a very long time, if at all. At this point, it's just a plan that we would like to pursue.

For more info, please take a look at Sasuke Maniac News.


[ Want to Help? ]

• If you're interested in helping in the development of Sasukepedia 2.0, head over to Sasukepedia.com and request an account.
  
• If you're interested in helping in the development of Sasuke Maniac 2.0, please Contact Us, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
  

[SuperTiger]

With SASUKEpedia, will the pages already on there be transfered, or have to be started anew? More than happy to help!

[RiderLeangle]

Same about the forums... Everything will be backed up and put into the new site right?

[Anshin]

Jul 15, 2011 19:03:54 GMT -5 SuperTiger said:

With SASUKEpedia, will the pages already on there be transfered, or have to be started anew? More than happy to help!

I'm trying to get a XML dump from Wikia to import all the pages into the new Wiki, but Wikia is having issues with their database XML dumps, and so the only option at the moment is manually "copy and paste"-ing every page on the wiki =(

Jul 15, 2011 19:07:27 GMT -5 RiderLeangle said:

Same about the forums... Everything will be backed up and put into the new site right?

There are plans to try to backup as much as possible from the forums, but the absolute number one priority is user accounts.

We're going to try to get all the threads and posts over, but since ProBoards is on a closed system, we don't have many options and the one we do have may or may not work at the time of execution.

But, we are certainly going to try to get everything we can from the forums migrated over.

Please note however, the site and forums are still a good ways away. There is still a good amount of time before that will come into affect; just thought you guys should know that should Sasuke end in the near future, we're still going to be around for quite some time.

[arsenette]

I can understand moving wiki and whatnot but what's the problem with proboards?

[supersheep]

I agree, why do we need new forums and risk losing all we're done over the last 3 years?

[SuperTiger]

Sorry, this didnt cross my mind until now. Do we have to request an account for the new SASUKEpedia if we already have an account on the old one?

EDIT: Also how will this new site effect the board that we don't openly talk about?

[Anshin]

Jul 15, 2011 19:36:06 GMT -5 arsenette said:

I can understand moving wiki and whatnot but what's the problem with proboards?

There are alot of things to consider in regards to the migration on both sides.

For one, there is a financial obligation on the back end of things to make this happen. As such, the migration may not happen at all, we may stay with the ProBoards forums for the rest of the community's lifetime. At this point, only the wiki is actively being "developed", while Sasuke Maniac 2.0 is currently just a plan that we have to make the community site and forums work together and provide more of a cohesive "center" to it all. The migration may not happen, ever; but we would like to make it happen.

Jul 15, 2011 19:51:25 GMT -5 supersheep said:

I agree, why do we need new forums and risk losing all we're done over the last 3 years?

I certainly see your concerns, and agree with them to be entirely honest. Migrations always hurt a community in some way, shape, or form; and again, we may not do it at all. And while we do have a single option available to us to attempt to bring over the posts/threads if we do move forward; there's no guarantee it will work.

But in all seriousness, these are just plans, and it may not come to fruition; except the Wiki. That's already working quite well.

Jul 15, 2011 19:52:05 GMT -5 SuperTiger said:

Sorry, this didnt cross my mind until now. Do we have to request an account for the new SASUKEpedia if we already have an account on the old one?

EDIT: Also how will this new site effect the board that we don't openly talk about?

Yes, unfortunately the current wiki and the new one are not linked, seeing as how they are on different servers, operated separately. You would have to create a new account there. I'm looking for a way for you to "reclaim" your account from the current wiki on the new one, without having to make a new account.

And as for the place which shall remain nameless, there are some ideas going around...

[Deleted]

Why can't we "lock" this entire forum, and keep it in storage, and start anew on a new forum platform. We can still go back to this forum for reference, but we'd have a new forum to go on. I think that's fair... and although it may hurt the community, I think I'd help it too, especially if you are doing more integration between services.

[supersheep]

How could it help the community?
Having to go back and forth from 2 sites to find the data, not to mention all the people that won't bother moving...

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Jul 15, 2011 21:26:19 GMT -5 supersheep said:

How could it help the community?
Having to go back and forth from 2 sites to find the data, not to mention all the people that won't bother moving...

1. If we are integrating sites, I could see a lot of community benefit, although I'd like to know what that means. The whole "integration part."

2. Who wouldn't bother moving? All the users that matter will move, I could care less about the ones that are too lazy. All forums have to be locked though, it's not like they can still post on THIS forum. The goal is to make a new board called "GO TO SASUKE.COM TO GO TO THE NEW FORUMS. THIS FORUM IS CLOSED"

3."Find the data?" What do you mean? Maybe once every 2 months will I ever use the search forum on this forum. It barely functions and if I ever needed "data" about Sasuke, I'd go to Sasukepedia.

[supersheep]

I think the problem I and a lot of others are going to have is, why do we need to move? What is wrong with what we have here? What is so great at the other side to justify all this work?

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Jul 15, 2011 21:42:25 GMT -5 supersheep said:

I think the problem I and a lot of others are going to have is, why do we need to move? What is wrong with what we have here? What is so great at the other side to justify all this work?

I hate proboards, although I have gotten used to it over the years. Still, I ignore joining most proboards sites. I don't know if many people are like that, but I know Proboards is known for sucking. That's why (No offense Scnoi) I hoped everyone would join Oti's forum when we all jumped ship from G4.

[Anshin]

Jul 15, 2011 21:38:56 GMT -5 @jpjuice23 said:

although I'd like to know what that means. The whole "integration part."

Notice how currently, the main site, is plain text HTML, with links to separate HTML pages. Also note, that the news portion of the site, utilizes the WordPress blogging system. The chat page uses a third party external chat plugin. The forums are hosted off-site on ProBoards servers/network. The wiki is hosted off-site on the wikia network.

Well, we'd like to take all of that, and put it on one server, all in the same site, without any third party embedding or anything. Just, the site, the forums, the chat, etc - all in one. News would be on the front page too. The wiki would be separate, but that's about it.

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Jul 15, 2011 21:53:05 GMT -5 Anshin said:

Jul 15, 2011 21:38:56 GMT -5 @jpjuice23 said:

although I'd like to know what that means. The whole "integration part."

Notice how currently, the main site, is plain text HTML, with links to separate HTML pages. Also note, that the news portion of the site, utilizes the WordPress blogging system. The chat page uses a third party external chat plugin. The forums are hosted off-site on ProBoards servers/network. The wiki is hosted off-site on the wikia network.

Well, we'd like to take all of that, and put it on one server, all in the same site, without any third party embedding or anything. Just, the site, the forums, the chat, etc - all in one. News would be on the front page too. The wiki would be separate, but that's about it.

I'd love that. If you could create a G4tv.com, with Chat, Forums, News, and everything, but instead of Shit4, it could be all Sasuke. I think that'd be cool.

[arsenette]

Personally I'm fine where I am now. I only link to Sasukepedia on my blogs. Whatever new site I'll chose to bother linking or not. It's a pain for us who have these links already in place and quite frankly I have no interest in starting all over in another forum. Every single time there's a migration of some sort everyone gets left behind. I've seen it in just about every incarnation of a forum where they seem to be "bigger than we are". Quite frankly if ya'll want to expand Sasukepedia .. go for it. Leave the forum out of it. It's disruptive as it is. If there was never any idea of doing so it would have been a lot better off to not mention it at all. Makes the rest of us who don't like having to change all the time whenever we have things to link (like blogs, etc) frustrated with what's going on behind the scenes of a "what if".