"www.paradoxian.org has expired"? UPDATE: They have moved!

[TinyWiking]

Those wikis weren't actually hosted on our servers. If we see a demand for bringing EU2, HoI2, ViC1 and AoD our Wiki server we may do so in the future but for now we are holding off.

 

[Meneth]

Perhaps @Meneth should be involved in this discussion

I'll forward it to the appropriate person.

 

[TinyWiking]

OriginalRafiki, nice to see you back, we spoke earlier via the ticket system .
We will happily host it on the official Paradox Wiki and we are moving forward with the necessary steps. Meneth is the mastermind behind the Wiki and the definitive go-to guy for all the questions you may have. I'll get the ball rolling on the backend things that's needed from our end .

 

[Meneth]

Anything about a Darkest Hour wiki? Its the only thing missing. There isnt even a HoI 2 wiki.

To the best of my knowledge there's never been a Darkest Hour wiki.
The HoI2 Wiki is one of the wikis we'll be restoring though.

 

[Meneth]

Morning, everyone.

As mentioned a page or two ago, we would be rehosting the four Paradoxian Wikis that we hadn't already rehosted.
This has now been done:

http://www.victoria1wiki.com/Main_Page
http://hoi2.paradoxwikis.com/Main_Page
http://www.eu2wiki.com/Main_Page
http://www.arsenalofdemocracywiki.com/Main_Page

All content from the wikis now exists once more, minus a few spam pages and similar. It is possible to edit as well by registered users who are already active on another Paradox Wiki, though we don't expect any of them to be especially active in that regard.
Considering the games' age, there won't be active support of these wikis beyond ensuring that they stay online and free from spam, but any user who wants to improve them is free to do so.

 

[Meneth]

- These are not yet linked on the general Paradox Wikis page : http://wikis.paradoxplaza.com/
Just saying.

Since they're not actively updated, they won't be linked on that page. Maybe at some point we'll make a page that lists the really old wikis too though.

- So i guess the old (non-HoD) Victoria II Wiki won't get hosted ?

The official Vic2 Wiki is already a rehost of the Paradoxian Vic2 Wiki. It's just changed a ton since.

 

[Meneth]

Well the differences were the interesing part.

You can always check the history of any given page if you're interested in that

apart from random luck on googling of course

That's how the vast majority of people get to any of the wikis.

 

[Meneth]

It's so great to have the hoi2 wiki back thou looking at it isn't some things missing on it as I seem to remember more info about things like doctrines etc just seems to be mostly just country guides pretty sure it's just a light watered down version of the hoi2 wiki unless I remember wrong

We copied everything on the wiki, so nothing should be missing other than some spam we filtered out.

 

[Meneth]

Thank you so much for rehosting these wikis! As grateful as I am, I also agree with Cypher:

The main pages of the rehosted wikis only show a fraction of their content. That's true not only of HoI2, but also for EU2 and Victoria. It's easy to see that a lot is missing by comparing the main pages of the rehosted sites to the original ones as shown the web.archive.org link provided on the first page of this thread. For example, the rehosted Victoria main page provides links only to Memnon's manual and two of its chapters. Helpful, of course, but all the rest is missing. The new EU2 main page only links to "State Religion", "Domestic Policy" and "Countries". Some other pages can be accessed through hyperlinks from those articles, but that still leaves a huge part inaccessible. I tried replacing EU2 and Victoria1 for HoI2 in Dauth's link, but it didn't work.

If nothing can be done about that, it's really a pity given all the work that went into these wikis as well as into rehosting them.

If you have a list of the pages you consider most important on one or more of the wikis, I'll happily put those on the front page