Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26287306-20161017224321

It's been exactly one year since I created my wikia account, we've gotten a lot done this past year, the Miner's Haven wikia looks a lot different then it did a year back. I first visited the wikia in late September 2015 to learn about all the reborn items there are. I quickly realized that these pages had the most content in them than any other pages on the wikia and now I get it's hard to find information on low end items. I created my account with the username "ThisBroScoperLovesWikia" (yeah a pretty weird username) to start editing pages, notice my account was made on the day the second part of the 2015 spooky update was released, when the headless horseman made his first appearance.

When I first visited the wikia I thought I had no new information to add into the pages but I realized the Spooky Update page was my chance to contribute. In late 2015 I didn't update pages a whole lot but in 2016 I took another look at the wikia and realized the pages were whack. The wording and the amount of details could've been improved on and that's when I started to these "page overhauls" which I became know for doing. I would add a solid overview, trivia, and infobox (I used fake infoboxes, a copy and paste of old infoboxes, I thought it was better than a real infobox because it was easier to edit (you edited it like a table while real infobox opened up a menu).

I tried to more advanced skills on the community wikia to contribue even more to the wikia like making colored infoboxes (Help:Infoboxes) (I should edit this page sometime to make it a little more intuitive) which is a little hard to do with old infoboxes and it had to be placed in the template's code itself. I then figured out what this page was saying and migrated to portable infoboxes.

This wikia has been using portable infoboxes since them, a portable infobox can work on mobile devices and on PC while old infoboxes only work on PC. I migrated the only infobox (which was designed only for dropper pages) to use newer markup (so it's a portable infobox). I also changes some of the names in the rows in the infoboxes code which made me edit 40 different dropper pages to change row names but in the end it was worth it. Here's a picture of the old infobox compared to the current one (old one to the left and current one to the right).



In February Mettaton8 announced the wikia move. I did A LOT of wikia research to figure out all the things I could do to effectively move the wikia without losing content. I referred to the pages Special:Import & Special:Export which imports and exports pages which is how I kept the old pages.

I was unable to keep the images and videos (there were really good review videos on the old Miner's Haven wikia). The wikia was finally nuked a few days after the old URL redirects here. During this time I went through several pages to re upload new images, back then I cropped screenshots of the items in my inventory which turns out to be unprofessional. You can read more about it on the Wiki history page.

I have to stop here as the library I'm in is about to close. I hope you enjoy the Miner's Haven wikia and the content it provides, I would love to see where this wikia (or community) goes in a year (most likely going to the Miner's Haven sequel). Hopefully my situation with the computers will get better and I can go back to using my PCs at home and hope fully I can talk about it soon, haven't been in the mood lately. 