Donna says (5:02 PM):
 Hey Matt, this is Don, the person you want to talk to about your wiki. :)
Donna says (5:03 PM):
 Don, this is Matt.
Auron says (5:03 PM):
 neat
 I'm a bureaucrat on PvXwiki and we are wondering if you could take us on
 (it's a guild wars build wiki)
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:05 PM):
 hey audron nice to metcha!
 sure where ya at now, what link on wikia?

Auron says (5:06 PM):
 http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
 there are a few oddities with our wiki though
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:06 PM):
 lookin
 o?
Auron says (5:06 PM):
 given the specific nature of our topic, we had a few plugins coded
 that allows us to generate a skill template code that can be used in-game
 to load up the skillbar quickly
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:07 PM):
 oh really, cool
 where
Auron says (5:07 PM):
 http://pvx.wikia.com/wiki/Special:PvXDecode is the decoding part, I'm not entirely sure where the files are
 part of the build making template kicks out a code once all the skills are put in, so it works both ways
 not being a coder myself I couldn't tell you much about it
Auron says (5:08 PM):
 in general it works fine, but every once in awhile ANet will change skills
 wikia didn't allow us to update the skill database ourselves
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:08 PM):
 oh hm
 cool
Auron says (5:08 PM):
 we basically had to give their staff a list of changes and hoped they got to it
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:10 PM):
 right
Auron says (5:10 PM):
 would curse be rather similar or could we access and update the skill database ourselves
 (or just give a few people access to that file, admins that know the coding)
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:11 PM):
 na pretty easy ship over here
 wouldn't be any real restrictions like that
 noteveryone but yeah a few key peoples fine
Auron says (5:11 PM):
 yeah, there are only a few who know how to do it, so that would be plenty
Auron says (5:12 PM):
 how would usernames and stuff work? 
 would it be merged with an already existing list or would our site be somewhat separate in that regard?
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:14 PM):
 wikis are stand alone
 media wiki install etc
 wouldn't be any cross over with our auth server
Auron says (5:14 PM):
 alright
Donna says (5:15 PM):
 you might have to have everyone re-register
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:15 PM):
 sorry, multi taskin, if i seem slow to respond that's why :D
 yea you would have to have all new signups
 i canport over some of the material
 alot would have to be re templated and made
 its noteasy
 but then you're not subject to wikias harsh rules
Auron says (5:15 PM):
 if we got a db dump would that help the process?
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:16 PM):
 immensely
 doub they'd allow it
Auron says (5:16 PM):
 ah, fair point
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:16 PM):
 they know what sup
 hee
Auron says (5:17 PM):
 I'm assuming there wouldn't be any bandwidth issues?
 I doubt pvx is big enough to cause any real strain
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:17 PM):
 never
Auron says (5:18 PM):
 pretty good
 is there anything you guys expect from our site in return?
 ads hosting and all that is expected obv
Donna says (5:18 PM):
 your soul
Auron says (5:18 PM):
 oh, that's all good then
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:18 PM):
 yeah blood signatures
 for all new signees
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:19 PM):
 no nothing besides a 728x90 ad, we are super easy on our wikis, we realize they're for the community 
Auron says (5:19 PM):
 yeah that's fine, should work on monobook no prob
 wikia's trying to force in some terrible skins so they can fill every inch of dead space with ads
 but everyone just wants to keep using the monobook skin
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:20 PM):
 yeah i've ben talking to dozens of wiki operators there
 moving to us
 lol
 kind of hectic right now haha
Auron says (5:20 PM):
 :D
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:22 PM):
 but yup def interested
Auron says (5:23 PM):
 how useful would an older database dump be?
Auron says (5:24 PM):
 I'm not sure how recent we can get but I know we had our own before we went to wikia
Donna says (5:24 PM):
 how old is it? how often do you update builds?
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:24 PM):
 as useful as the info in it yeah
Auron says (5:24 PM):
 the builds update whenever ANet buffs or nerfs skills, which is every ~4 months or so now
Auron says (5:25 PM):
 used to be more often though
 I'll have to find one before I can see how old it is, maybe someone on the wiki has one lying around still
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:27 PM):
 ok np
 save my msn
 and lmk?
Auron says (5:28 PM):
 yea, I will indeed
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:28 PM):
 :)
 great meeting u matt
Auron says (5:28 PM):
 if we do decide to hop over
 how long would the transfer process take
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:29 PM):
 few days
 prety fast
Auron says (5:29 PM):
 yea that's not bad
 I'll stay in touch, we just have to gather some opinions and see if the userbase is up to it
 if we got a database dump, would we still have to register accounts?
 or just the newer contributors?
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:30 PM):
 depends on the data
 likely sill reg
 :/
Auron says (5:30 PM):
 ok
Auron says (5:31 PM):
 oh, the check user tool would still be available I assume?
Auron says (5:32 PM):
 extension to check IPs to see if someone is creating alt accounts to vote a build up or down
Donna says (5:32 PM):
 If mediawiki has the same extension, or if it's compatable
Auron says (5:32 PM):
 yeah it's a mediawiki one
Donna says (5:33 PM):
 then no problemo :P
Auron says (5:33 PM):
 awesome
Auron says (5:36 PM):
 thanks for the responses, I hope to contact you again soon guys :D
Donovan - Curse.com says (5:37 PM):
 ty