The New TFwiki Discussion Thread (2023)

[PrimalxConvoy]

This is the Allspark's new thread to discuss any "meta" issues about the Tfwiki website.

Please understand that this is not an official method to contact the Tfwiki site, or its mods/admins/users. It is rather a place to record observations or discuss the site in lieu of (or instead) of any direct/official channels (if and when needed).

To get the ball rolling, here's an issue I had recently:

- As of yesterday, no searches with "tfwiki" appear in Duck Duck Go's results page. The only one that is ok is "tfwiki.net", nothing else.

tfwiki at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

 

[DefaultOption]

Huh, that's weird. Just searching 'tfwiki' didn't link to the wiki, and searching for 'tfwiki.net' doesn't either, but it does show this post as the #3 result:

 

[abates]

It might have been the site's robots.txt, which was set to not give their crawler permission to index the site. Even though that hasn't changed in eons and their crawler was indexing it anyway. I've added permissions for them, so that might fix it.

 

[Magnusblitz]

Works for me now (may have been due to abates' fix)

 

[abates]

Hard to say - it sounds like DDG sources data from Bing, and I discovered that TFWiki wasn't showing up on Bing either.

A test I did just now on both Bing and Duck Duck Go had the site appear in search results, so hopefully it's now fixed.

 

[PrimalxConvoy]

Thanks folks. I wasn't sure how to contact Tfwiki, as I couldn't find any contact info at the site.

It seems to be working on the search results now. I clicked on the link I used in my original post and...

 

[LBD "Nytetrayn"]

Ah, good to know. That'd be pretty ducked up right there if they'd removed it.

 

[Sabrblade]

Popping in here to say that today I have received my very first Featured Article on the wiki:

Reaching the Omega Point - Transformers Wiki

tfwiki.net

It is currently featured on the Main Page.

 

[abates]

Congrats!

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Great work! I still like this story, so it's nice to see it get this kind of attention.

 

[Sabrblade]

For comparison, here is what the article looked like back before I got to it.

Reaching the Omega Point - Transformers Wiki

tfwiki.net

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Oof. That was barely more than a stub at that point.

That's quite a project.

 

[Sabrblade]

Twas

Oof. That was barely more than a stub at that point.

That's quite a project.

Thanks. Though, truth be told, the majority of work was done back in 2016-2017, with some touch ups made in the years since (one big one made earlier this year due to my also having given individual articles to every installment of Apelinq's War Journals back in the summer). It was only this year that I decided to submit RTOP for nomination.

Original AWJ page for comparison. Then the page as it was from 2017-2023. The current version individual articles is linked above.

And, just for fun, there was a time when all four Omega Point prose stories ("Herald", "Covenant", "Schism", and "Paradox") were all originally on the same page!

 

[CoffeeHorse]

This is why people think this story is more confusing than it is. TFWiki's coverage needed work.

 

[Sabrblade]

Other noteworthy things I've worked on in recent years, for anyone interested.


Updated:

• Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise) (prior version)
• Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon) (primarily adding in new sections for "Production", "Continuations and addenda", and a massive "Continuity" section) (prior version)
• Decepticon/Predacon Alliance (prior version)

Overhauled:

• Beast Wars timeline (prior version)
• "The Continuity Kerfuffle" section of Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 franchise) (prior version of this section; the rest of the page has also changed a lot in the time since, but not by me specifically)
• Predacon Alliance (prior version)
• Maximal Imperium (prior version)

Created:

• Transformers: The Ride – 3D Grand Opening (Hollywood)
• Transformers: The Ride – 3D Grand Opening (Orlando)
• The "Conceptual history" section for Angolmois Energy
• Beast Wars timeline (3H)
• The "Continuity" section of Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2001 cartoon)
• The "Conceptual history" section of Robots in Disguise continuity family
• Great War (BW)
• Predacon Empire

 

[Sabrblade]

With the news reveals of the Amazon-exclusive Barrage & Chop Shop, it feels relevant to share the news that the wiki now has a full article for Beetras.

 

[NovaSaber]

Why was the ladybug ever named Beet-Papil anyway? "Papillon" is French for "butterfly".

 

[Sabrblade]

Why was the ladybug ever named Beet-Papil anyway? "Papillon" is French for "butterfly".

The article provides a possible answer for that.