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Milesent: /* Meeting Minutes */

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			===Meeting 10/27-2026 ===

			When I tried to update php, got errors on the site:
			Needed to re-enable several extensions in php Selector

			mbstring
			fileinfo
			intl
			pdo
			pdo_mysql
			mysqli

			Good news; we are now on php 8.3 and I know to re-enable those things when upgrading php (Likely will move to 8.4 in the not too distant future.)

			Fixed thumbnail issue! It was staring me in the face; feel bad that I didn't figure it out earlier. Default path was user/bin/blah blah, needed to be user/local/bin/blah blah (very similar so my eyes kept skipping over it!) Yay, thumbnails are now fixed.

			Fixed MiddleWiki icon in the upper right corner; somehow the file got deleted, path was fine headdesk re-uploaded and it's fixed.

			Feeling pretty good, that's three things fixed! Still need to:
			* Talk to Grant about creating a redirect on middlewiki.midrealm.org (or find out who owns middlewiki.midrealm.org and have it point to our site instead)
			* Fix account request
			* fix email/password reset

			Roisin's been going through 'wanted' pages and seeing if they're actually wanted or just a misspelling of a name (and fixing the link to the correct spelling.)

			Since Roisin's doing so much updating; asked if she's getting any errors/lag time, etc. She only noticed once (when I was updating the site, heh.)

			Raeffe is chief cheerleader (busy with other projects, but providing invaluable moral support!)

			According to Google; I can manually reset a password. Will test with Kat Coscombe's account.

			Farther future goals: spinning up a second site for Cleftwiki (so we only pay for one hosting instead of two hosting solutions) and perhaps a fundraiser to offset hosting costs (want to wait until we're 100% for that!) Raeffe has some experience with fund raisers, heh.

			Next meeting in two weeks: nope! In two weeks I will be on vacation in England! (lucky me) Three weeks puts us Thanksgiving week so put it out four weeks, December 1, 2026. Hopefully many good updates by then, eh?



	=== 10/13/26 ===		=== 10/13/26 ===

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10/13/26

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	A lot of folks have been hitting the old site - put up redirect! We had been waiting for Category check, not necessary go for redirect		A lot of folks have been hitting the old site - put up redirect! We had been waiting for final Category check (Seeing if categories on old site have any content that needs to be re-created, all major categories have already been checked.), not necessary go for redirect

	Need to research if I can reset a password on the server side? manually.		Need to research if I can reset a password on the server side? manually.

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2026-10-27T13:08:41Z

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			=== 10/13/26 ===

			A lot of folks have been hitting the old site - put up redirect! We had been waiting for Category check, not necessary go for redirect

			Need to research if I can reset a password on the server side? manually.
			(Kat Coscomb)

			Current issues:
			* thumbnail issue
			* account request issue
			* password reset issue
			* email issue (Related to password reset)

			Concept: fresh copy of site; import database, confirm is good, swap with live site (is the issue fixed?)

			Roisin - busy removing duplicate photos

			need to update php to 8.3 to avoid fees

			Next meeting in two weeks


	=== 6/25/2026 ===		=== 6/25/2026 ===

Milesent: /* Meeting Minutes */

2026-07-02T19:40:03Z

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			=== 6/25/2026 ===

			Short meeting - Roisin is done with her checks, yay! And is categorizing images
			Milesent going to re-install Request Account, reinstalling TemplateStyles fixed that one problem, yay. One down, more to go...


			=== 6/9/2026 ===

			wiki is updated to 1.43, yay!
			TemplateStyles needed to be updated again (It said it was good but it wasn't) the "hooks" issue is resolved. Huzzah!
			Roisin has reviewed all pages! Notes for updates are in the to do list
			Added two non-admin users: Diccon and Avery

			Issues:
			image re-sizing Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory Error code: 127 (timing out? General database connection issues may be related.)
			request account still not working, new and interesting errors (we're making progress!)
			email notifications (request account, password reset) still not working properly
			website running slow (database connection issue)
			re-add site icon (Milesent accidentally deleted it)
			Still need to categorize images and confirm all categories have been recreated.

			Roisin to make a list of personal culture categories
			Raef and Dai are looking at templates

			Grace is going to reinstall extensions ConfirmAccount and ConfirmEdit (Scrubnto too?)
			was hoping upgrading to 1.43 would fix the database issues; maybe updating the extensions will do it? if not, will continue troubleshooting.

			next meeting Thursday June 25th


	=== 5/7/2026 ===		=== 5/7/2026 ===

Milesent: /* Meeting Minutes */

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			=== 5/7/2026 ===

			Roisin - halfway through the alphabet! yay! Not many issues; mostly updated images.
			Milesent is attempting to update us to 1.43... site is currently down. Probably doing this in the hardest, slowest way possible (yay learning curve!)

			Discussion of admin processes - watch pages, notifications of changes

			Seamus: once site is back up; will take a look at why email isn't working.


			Uptime bot: https://stats.uptimerobot.com/btVB12Oj8k
			Note: orange outages once php upgrade happened. Hopefully site upgrading to 1.43 (which is compatible with this version of php)


	=== April 9, 2026 ===		=== April 9, 2026 ===

Milesent: /* Meeting Minutes */

2026-04-09T23:53:57Z

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			=== April 9, 2026 ===

			Pages moved - done, Roisin did find a couple pages that were not moved; need to move those as well (noted on to do list)
			category re-creation - in progress (need to check old wiki if there is any content and move if there is, ome category pages have content, most do not)
			re-tagging image files - in progress

			(still need old wiki for reference until we've confirmed all pages and content is moved.)

			Upgraded our php version; we had version 8, got a notice that we would have to pay extra for support if we didn't upgrade so I did! That went OK.

			issues: Server slowness, believe database related One cause may be that I installed JsonConfig when Json was already installed... oops.

			Edward wasn't able to log in, but now he is.

			smtp still not working (but it DID work before! ack! found messages in my spam folder from March, but today it is not working) went on with GoDaddy support; settings are correct. was able to send an email directly from the donotreply@middlewiki.org account, however.
			request account not working (see above)

			Suggestion from Gianna - upgrade to 1.43 (we're currently on 1.40) 1.43 is a more stable, recent release though GoDaddy doesn't have it in their Installer gui. Gianna says she will be free to assist in another week or two, Cleftwiki is running 1.43 (She mentioned perhaps combining the Cleftwiki with Middlewiki, something to think about for after we're done with our complete migration.)

			Should the category be Scroll Images or Scribal Images? - Scroll images, it's classic, we know what it is.

			Do we let folks in to play? - Seamus - agrees with a limited roll out, stressing it can see if there are more issues. everyone: Yes, let's let a few, active folks in to play.

			Note to educate users to search for existing pages first before making new pages (lots of duplicate persona pages, etc.).

			team is OK with continuing to meet every two weeks

			=== March 24th, 2026 ===

			Very brief touch base, just Milesent and Raefaelle

	=== March 10th, 2026 ===		=== March 10th, 2026 ===

Milesent: /* Meeting Minutes */

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			=== March 10th, 2026 ===

			We have been busy and a lot of work has been completed!

			Initial page move complete! huzzah! Big thanks to Edward and Raeffe who did most of the page moving. You guys are awesome.

			Roisin - found a missing page (Baronial award), noting on to do list, she will continue to look for missing pages on her site review. Also been updating populace pages with outdated templates. (Other team members are welcome to join her on checking.)

			Milesent Account Requests - enabled, however can't approve account requests until I get email notifications working for password resets. Started on that, GoDaddy does have email settings, need to make sure I get the settings right, however.
			Unfortunately, Captcha is not working, grr. Extension was already loaded in our install, however when I enable it, it gives an error that the underlaying captcha settings are not there. May be a database issue? (That was what prevented account request enabling not to work, files were there but underlaying database tables had not been created.) Milesent will continue to troubleshoot. First get email setup, then will revisit Captcha.

			we've had one account request; Katherine Coscombe. I've informed her that she's now our beta tester for account creation. :) Milesent demonstrated how to manage account requests. You need to be in the Bureaucrat group to do account requests. Some of our helpers are in admin group only and do not see confirm account requests on special pages. If you need/want to be a part of account creation process, let me know to add you to bureaucrats.

			Milesent installed JsonConfig extension and added the first two configuring lines to LocalSettings, not sure about the others Dai sent as some of the settings seem to be server specific. Will discuss that with him. Tuesdays aren't good for Dai; may set up a meeting on a different night so he can attend. (Not Wednesday!)

			We have started Re-creating category pages (See To Do list for complete list of categories) started with the most linked to categories, should go quickly.
			We've also started Re-categorizing files - Edward has started Arms Images and Award Images
			Double category: C&I Images and Scroll Images; C&I seems more accurate but Scroll is more used... decision on which to keep? Scribal Images? Added a poll to discord Middlewiki page and to our Facebook page to get folks to weigh in on what category we should use going forward.

			There have been some issues with the new site running slow, worrisome. Load balancer? May need to visit our configuration and ensure we have enough resources on the site.

			Raeffe has been going through his punch list; he and Dai are working on our remaining troublesome templates.

			Good job team! Keep up the good work and let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns.

			-Milesent
			Project manager.



	===February 24th, 2026 ===		===February 24th, 2026 ===

Milesent: /* Meeting Minutes */

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			===February 24th, 2026 ===
			Middlewiki team meeting 2/24/2026

			we're at 5,254 pages moved, yay! about 2,000 to go, some of which won't be moved (talk pages, user pages)

			Discord message: Mikolai Golubin (Fenix) - I think that the "Pages using duplicate arguments in Template Calls" is presently mostly an issue with the last couple lines of Template:Navbox_subgroup, where it's causing two arguments not present to become an argument called "void"

			Raeffael and Margarita send regrets, they're out and won't be home in time for the meeting. He's done moving all of his sections and they are ready for review. Going forward Raeffael will be focusing on punch list items such as the errant template issues we have.

			Dai is back from Europe, and working on the extensions again. We're missing another one - JsonConfig. (Milesent will add!) Dai will continue working to see what he can find in terms of the minimum we might be missing.

			Those who attended discussed if it is time to move the "Current Events" task list to our new site. Yes! -Milesent will do. And... has done. "MiddleWiki To Do List" is the new page on the new site (linked on the Main page)

			We were low on disk space on the new site; error in backup configuration. I think I got it now (excluded the clone backup of the site from daily backups, hee.) May review how long to keep backups as well. Milesent shall continue to monitor our disk usage. (Note: after deleting excess backups we went form 47 gigs used to 20, our quota is 50 gigs. If the site grows to need more than that, we will examine purchasing more storage space, though now is NOT a good time for that with storage prices soaring.)

			Roisin is doing final reviews; first section done! (others welcome to help her)

			Everyone is reminded to note when you find problems on the project plan (which I will move to new site. there, Middlewiki To Do List is the new page on the new site! https://middlewiki.org/index.php/MiddleWiki_To_Do_List Included link on old Current Events page.

			New page on the new site for historical information about this site move :) https://middlewiki.org/index.php/MiddleWiki_About_-_2026_Site_Move

			Request Account workflow - not working yet; Milesent spent several hours on it this week :) I did get the request an account form to load, but it errored out. May be a configuration setting (currently it is disabled, will try again soon.) Good news about this ConfirmAccount tool; we can configure the request form and approvals will happen inside the wiki. Access approval can be granted to a group (Admins "Beurocrats" or a group we decided to create for the purpose. I say we start with "Admins" and revisit once we're live on if we want to create a larger account approver group.

			Milesent is teaching a "MiddleWiki and You" class at Masque of Courtly Love this Saturday; obviously I was hoping we'd be further along by now, heh, but I'm hoping to talk about the project and how the new wiki will be easier for folks to use. (We may create or update some user pages in the class.)

			Next meeting: March 10th

	=== February 10th, 2026 ===		=== February 10th, 2026 ===

Milesent: /* Team members */

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	* [[Edward Brackenburye]] moved over 1/3 of pages		* [[Edward Brackenburye]] moved over 1/3 of pages
	* [[Raffaele da Cernia]] moved over 1/3 of pages		* [[Raffaele da Cernia]] moved over 1/3 of pages
	* Roisin de Burgh		* Roisin de Burgh - verification and checking of templates that aren't used
	* Magarhita		* Magarhita
	* Dai		* Dai

Milesent: /* Team members */

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	* [[Raffaele da Cernia]] moved over 1/3 of pages		* [[Raffaele da Cernia]] moved over 1/3 of pages
	* Roisin de Burgh		* Roisin de Burgh
			* Magarhita
	* Dai		* Dai
	* Gianna Vettori - Configuration consultant		* Gianna Vettori - Configuration consultant