🛑 PSA: Place Wiki Infrastructure - Data restoration possible!

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In ffe0654, Place Wiki (https://place-wiki.stefanocoding.me/) was down:

• HTTP code: 521
• Response time: 158 ms

[Xeravax]

The original infrastructure for the Place Wiki was built years ago on early development hardware, back when I ( @Xeravax ) was still maintaining the project during school. That setup was never upgraded into a fully supported, production‑ready system. As a result, the wiki environment was never properly modernized, configured, or maintained.

Recently, due to an error involving backups and the removal of the machine the wiki was hosted on, we have likely lost the majority of the Place Wiki data. The Place Atlas itself is unaffected. All atlas data remains intact and fully operational. The wiki was always intended as a companion resource to provide additional context about entries without overloading the atlas pages themselves.

I am currently investigating recovery options. This includes checking partial backups and exploring whether portions of the wiki can be restored using archived data or the Internet Archive. We will provide further updates once we determine whether the wiki will be replaced, rebuilt, or restored in some form.

Thank you for your patience while we work through this.

[Xeravax]

Hi everyone,

I have some great news regarding our infrastructure. While reviewing some historical backups, I successfully located the full backup data for our MediaWiki instance!

What’s next?

Now that the data is secured, my next priority is to migrate the Atlas to a more robust, professional hosting environment. This move will provide a much more stable foundation, ensuring better uptime and making future updates significantly easier to manage.

Thank you all for your patience while we get this sorted. I will keep you posted as the migration progresses!

[Xeravax]

We are now in the process of migrating the entire wiki to miraheze, more information to be provided in the future.