Star Army Is Fat

The server needs to go on a diet, lol. Due to high disk-space usage, I'm making some tweaks to the site to slow down the amount of disk space the site is using.

Here's a non-comprehensive list:

• Reduced max file upload size from about 20 MB to 12 MB
• Keep less copies of automated backups of the forum
• Dropped support for non-English languages on the wiki
• Working on clearing out orphan media files on the wiki (also trying to find a way to find and remove duplicates)
• Stopped rehosting external images in forum posts (cached instead)
• Reduced cache duration on externally hosted image
• Recommended server tries a low-carb option instead of stuffing its face with the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese like its webmaster is doing

Stuff you can do as a user to help:

• Use reasonably web-sized images on wiki pages, not gargantuan pics
• Request deletion of unused wiki images (ask me in conversation)

 

[Doshii Jun]

I don't know why, but on the wiki it now says the namespace that the article is in in things such as the search box and on search results pages.

Sorry; was asking about this. I get the namespace moving for images, but did we change/update wiki software for the search bit to happen?

 

[Wes]

Because we use the setting "Use First Header as Page Title" the pages all have whatever ====== Title ====== we give them instead of showing something like stararmy:weapons:armor_service_pistol_type_29 -- but the side effect is that we don't see the namespace. I've been constantly editing people's titles to be more specific (if 3 factions make all a page titled "Military Equipment" that looks really awkward in a search).

Recently I installed a plugin that puts the namespace in brackets after the page title so you can know which namespace it's living in. This has been really useful to me as I try to organize wiki pages (e.g. moving Star Army equipment into StarArmy:Equipment: ). One fun thing about it is that it will use the page title of a matching namespace (for example, pages in stararmy:equipment: will have the page title from stararmy:equipment (which is Star Army Equipment) appear in the brackets.