Tag: luchawiki

It’s been down since about this time yesterday. At first, I thought it was just some problem on my side – I hadn’t been able to get to ovaciones website for a few days until today, so I was hoping it was just the computer I’m using. Nope.

The hosting company for that site is vizaweb, and you’ll notice THEIR site is missing too. (“thecubsfan.com” is hosted by a different company, which has had it’s own problems.)

I’m trying to see what I can do, and don’t have any idea of when luchawiki will be back up.

I haven’t written much here about the luchawiki (the #1 outgoing link on this page!!!!), and if finally getting a favicon up isn’t a good time to write, I don’t know what is.

Bios alone:
917 Mexicans
241 Foreign
105 unspecified
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1263 total <- almost scary! We're doing pretty good with traffic too, though we could always use more links; google's doesn't rank the site as high as it should on searches, and more people pointing to it always improves that sort of thing. We've been getting a lot of excellent information and media from people who come to visit the site, and we totally appreciate the effort of everyone's who helps out. Pictures: We’ve added a ton. I haven’t counted, but I’m thinking most of the profiles have them now. But we’re always looking for more; people we don’t have, people in old gimmicks, people with championships (though you have to start going old or obscure to miss one we don’t have.)

And if someone can come up with a good moving .gif of someone doing a La Majistral, I’d owe you a hug or something.

Bios: I’ve started – slowly – working thru the major rosters to do short profile abstracts on the guys on TV. They’re not Jose level profiles – I’m not Jose, sadly – but if you watching a tape or looking at a lineup and are trying to figure out how a guy fits into things (at least at the moment), you’ll get some info. It shouldn’t just be my opinion; if someone’s your favorite guy, and you want to explain to the world what makes him good, go ahead and add some notes on him.

Besides profile notes, any info you might have read in an interview about trainers, hometowns, and such is always helpful; we don’t have it for more than you’d guess.

If you’ve got any suggestions about stuff we can add or different ways we can organize, we’d always like to hear them. Sometimes we use them right away (like making a trainer category), and sometimes we file them away (like the suggestion off adding much more moves to make them more video game CAW friendly). But we always listen to ’em.

Quick site notes: no instant GdR/Gala show listing on Saturday (not around; gotta remember to stick in a tape before I leave.) My schedule might be wonky the next week too; either I’ll have a lot of time or no time.

If CMLL results show up in the 90 minutes, I’ll post ’em.

They don’t do the usual “picture with a name” graphics for the cibernetico and they actually never list the guys involved, so you have to pay attention to the ring announcer to get names. There’s some people who haven’t been on much, and others who haven’t been on except Stellar Moments. So, here’s a quick who’s who.

Group A:
Tony Rivera: larger, older, unmasked man
Stuka Jr.: red pants with no top, pilot looking mask with goggles
Valiente: green and black outfit. Short/stout compared to the others
Neutron: Black and lightning bolts; looks inspired by the Rayo de Jalisco family (though he’s not a member)
Loco Max: Bald, short, easy to pick out

Group B:
La Mascara: Black out fight with gold features, including a big “M” on his face.
Mascara Purpura: full body red outfit with white features. Skinny.
Danger: Yellow outfit with red lines
Oro II: Black with a big gold lines
Leono: Younger thinner long haired man

And the deal with the cage match is particpants are not allowed to escape till the match goes five minutes (or sometimes ten or fifteen, but it’s closer to 5 here; they might have started the clock when the fighting started?) That’s why Maximo keeps trying to leave, could leave and stops – the officals are telling him no.

Over on luchawiki.com, we’re featuring Canek this week…mostly because I realized I missed his apuesta record and felt bad. I don’t often feel sympathy for Canek.

A heads up to anyone still looking at the old site; we’ve made a ton of edits, categorized hundred of articles and added some new material to the new site, so you really ought to be looking over there. And, sometime after next Thursday, I’m going to make the old site disappear, so you might want to change your bookmark already.

We’ve spun the wiki off into it’s own site – luchawiki.com. Update your bookmarks nad your RSS feeds, because the old one is permantenly frozen and will eventually vanish.

Everything should work as it before (and some stuff is better – I like the 1.6.3 login) – but if it doesn’t, send me a message.

I think I’ve finally figured out the accent problem on the new site! I should be more elated, but I’m not convinced I got everything; if you’re a person who uses the current luchawiki often, please take a moment on luchawiki.com and see if you notice any weird characters mixed in the text. (Don’t worry about the pictures not being there; we’re looking for accented letters replaced by random characters.)

If I’m all clear there, my tentative plan is to make the move on Friday night/Saturday morning. It’s not quite the simplest operation:
– upgrade thecubsfan.com/lucha to 1.6.3
– post moving message on current site
– freeze database
– backup database
– backup files (including all the images!)
– upload files to new site
– upload database
– run install script
– run manual fix to install script (oh those wacky install programs)
– pray everything works out right.

so I’m allowing some time in case on of those goes wrong, you know?

If everything’s a go, I’ll post a message on the wiki (and probably here) with an approximate shut down time for Friday.

Thanks for your patience and all your help.