Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4869113-20160814180300

So guys, it's Serk here, and I'm pretty much that dude responsible for everything with the infobox situation that occurred. How they're broken, how some portions of them are NOT broken. Anyway, this has been an issue for a year now, and even after I stopped being admin, I've tried to find ways to fix them. I'm going to detail my journey here to catch everyone up.

Essentially, my first instinct was noticing exactly what was wrong with the infoboxes. They were severely outdated, and that was why they didn't have the collapse stuff like the ones on Naruto pedia, why the Clan members didn't pop up on the Clan's infobox page, and vice versa. So, noticing this, I simply copied and imported updated bits from Naruto wiki under the guidance of their head coder. However, we quickly noticed that this didn't work.

Instead it seemed to make things slightly worse, and then with the help of DazzlingEmerald, everything began to come back together. Now, here's what was confusing. Why didn't it work? At the point of copying everything from Naruto pedia, the wiki itself literally though it was the Naruto wiki, so why even then when were basically a digital clone of Naruto wiki didn't the infoboxes work? I soon realized that unlike Naruto wiki, our extensions were also outdated. Not all of them, but literally just one. Unfortunately, this one is responsible for all the autodata that allows other infoboxes to connect. That's why all of our problems were fucked up.

So, I contacted wiki, asked for help on getting the extensions, and they told me of course, two-three weeks. Then they got hacked, disabled java, pushed the deadline back further, until a year later we never got it. So, I emailed him in June of this year:

Good Morning,

Yes, I've noticed that the Semantic Mediawiki is updated to the latest form (3.3), but we don't yet have Semantic Maps (Version 2.0.1.2) which is responsible for coordinating Data. This is very important to the infoboxes. - The guy responded:

Hello,

Thanks for contacting Wikia.

I have requested an upgrade of the software to our Engineering team, but please be aware that it is very low priority and, depending upon the amount of time the upgrade would take, it may simply be postponed for a very long time. Sorry I can't do more, but we have very limited resources to handle third-party extensions. - Essentially, he was a lot more honest about not giving us the update to the extension than he was before. We're not a high priority here, lol. So, guys, I apologize now. Um, I don't honestly know what we can do without the extension, because we can't actually implament them ourselves. You have to have access to the server, which is somewhere in California, meaning that we don't have access to it. Any suggestions would be nice, but until further notice, I don't think those infoboxes will be repaired guys. Sorry again. This was just to let you guys know what happened, because I realized a lot of people were confused about the entire situation still. 