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The roguebasin is a wiki which seeks to become the main depot of all information regarding roguelikes, including a collection of the existing projects and games, an encyclopedia of genre-related topics, a directory of developers and a collection of development tips and articles.
The Roguebasin is a wiki that seeks to become the main depot of all information regarding Traditional Roguelikes, including a collection of the existing projects and games, an encyclopedia of genre-related topics, a directory of developers, and a collection of development tips and articles.


The RogueBasin thus seeks to be an up to date and complete repository of all information regarding the roguelike subgenre, fuelled by the cooperative efforts of all roguelike developers and players around the globe.
The RogueBasin thus seeks to be an up-to-date and complete repository of all information regarding the roguelike subgenre, fuelled by the cooperative efforts of all roguelike developers and players around the globe.


==History==
==History==
The wiki was conceptualized and setup initially by [[Slash]], back to January 26 [[2005]]. It immediately caught the attention of the roguelike community, which for a long time was in need of a place to store all of its empiric knowledge, history and current status of the genre.
January 16, [[2005]]. [[Slash]] set up the first version of roguebasin using a long-gone service called swiki.net, imagine it being a predecessor of wikia / fandom.com, only much less stable and feature-full. It soon went down and become unreliable as the people of r.g.r.d. jumped in to contribute, but it worked well enough to gather the attention of the community.


The initial version of RogueBasin was hosted in the swiki.net wiki service; however after about one month of operation and some blackouts, the service  proved to be too unstable for the needs of the community and it was decided that the wiki had to move.
January 26, 2005. [[DarkGod]] offered to host roguebasin at tome.net’s server. “The basin is a good idea, and I’d hate to see it fade away, the RL community needs something like that!“. He alongside [[Pav]] set up the first mediawiki installation, the foundations of the current roguebasin.


Several alternatives were under study, but it was with the help of [[DarkGod]] and [[Pav]] that RogueBasin found a second home at http://roguebasin.t-o-m-e.net, where it resided until August [[2006]] surviving several spambot raids and growing on content.  
August 2, [[2006]]. After being battered by spambots for a while, the wiki was no longer accepting new user accounts except thru a cumbersome manual process. We decided we had to change how it was operating so someone could take better care of the technical setup of the wiki. It was finally moved to roguelikedevelopment.org, the domain of the long-time roguelike developer Björn Ritzl, who would host it for almost 15 years.


Such spam raids forced to restrict edition to registered users and to block the creation of new user accounts, except through an alternate process, thus reducing the usefulness of roguebasin as a collaborative edition media.[http://angband.oook.cz/rgrd.php?showpost=75394]. It was then decided[http://angband.oook.cz/rgrd.php?showpost=79040] that a caring administrative crew should stand for it, allowing for things such as safe user account creation; in August 2 2006 the wiki was moved to roguelikedevelopment.org, this was possible because of the joint efforts of [[User:Bjorn|Bjorn]] Ritzl and [[DarkGod]].
June 19, 2011, RogueBasin was moved by Björn to a new and more reliable web host and the roguebasin.com domain was set up.


On June 19 2011, RogueBasin was moved by Björn to a new and more reliable webhost and the www.roguebasin.com domain was set up.
August 2011: Registrations had to be disabled again due to large spambot attacks and seemingly inefficient captcha protection. Slash, was entrusted as the [[Guardian of RogueBasin|technical maintainer for the wiki]], having enhancing spambot protection as its first goal.


On August 2011, registrations had to be disabled again due to large spambot attacks and seemingly inefficient captcha protection. It was then that [[Slashware Interactive]], lead by [[Slash]], was entrusted as the [[Guardian of RogueBasin|technical maintainer for the wiki]], having enhancing spambot protection as its first goal.
By 2021, there had been many reports of the wiki being too slow or going down sometimes. Björn handed over the hosting to Slash, who took as a priority updating from 2012's MediaWiki 1.19 and migrating to a more private hosting where we could scale resources as needed.
 
June 17, 2021. After almost 10 years of the last server movement, Roguebasin has been migrated from roguelikedevelopment.org hosting to its own Virtual Machine at DigitalOcean, and upgraded to MediaWiki 1.36.0 + PHP 7.4.3. This has fixed the performance issues.

Latest revision as of 02:18, 18 June 2021

The Roguebasin is a wiki that seeks to become the main depot of all information regarding Traditional Roguelikes, including a collection of the existing projects and games, an encyclopedia of genre-related topics, a directory of developers, and a collection of development tips and articles.

The RogueBasin thus seeks to be an up-to-date and complete repository of all information regarding the roguelike subgenre, fuelled by the cooperative efforts of all roguelike developers and players around the globe.

History

January 16, 2005. Slash set up the first version of roguebasin using a long-gone service called swiki.net, imagine it being a predecessor of wikia / fandom.com, only much less stable and feature-full. It soon went down and become unreliable as the people of r.g.r.d. jumped in to contribute, but it worked well enough to gather the attention of the community.

January 26, 2005. DarkGod offered to host roguebasin at tome.net’s server. “The basin is a good idea, and I’d hate to see it fade away, the RL community needs something like that!“. He alongside Pav set up the first mediawiki installation, the foundations of the current roguebasin.

August 2, 2006. After being battered by spambots for a while, the wiki was no longer accepting new user accounts except thru a cumbersome manual process. We decided we had to change how it was operating so someone could take better care of the technical setup of the wiki. It was finally moved to roguelikedevelopment.org, the domain of the long-time roguelike developer Björn Ritzl, who would host it for almost 15 years.

June 19, 2011, RogueBasin was moved by Björn to a new and more reliable web host and the roguebasin.com domain was set up.

August 2011: Registrations had to be disabled again due to large spambot attacks and seemingly inefficient captcha protection. Slash, was entrusted as the technical maintainer for the wiki, having enhancing spambot protection as its first goal.

By 2021, there had been many reports of the wiki being too slow or going down sometimes. Björn handed over the hosting to Slash, who took as a priority updating from 2012's MediaWiki 1.19 and migrating to a more private hosting where we could scale resources as needed.

June 17, 2021. After almost 10 years of the last server movement, Roguebasin has been migrated from roguelikedevelopment.org hosting to its own Virtual Machine at DigitalOcean, and upgraded to MediaWiki 1.36.0 + PHP 7.4.3. This has fixed the performance issues.