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Because the Czech guys made some special OTTD-versions for their GRF sets (if you know why, please post a comment), we had to update our grf’s an other time today. Please have a look on the GRF wiki page.

I updated the newgrfs today. There aren’t any newgrfs updated but I added AV8 and the czech rail set. You can download the new set by clicking the link on the right of this site.
Have phun with them!

13:30 CET:Mucht and I met at IRC to update our wiki.
Our Wiki was still version 1.5.x which was very, very rusty and old and long time ago we already tried to update the wiki but that terribly faild.
13:35 CET: After waiting some minutes, because Mucht printed mysqldump output into the shell instead of a > file.sql, we started backing up the old data (sql, code, images and all that stuff).
Just as an information: the mysql-backup was 41MB big, and the backup of our wiki-folder 358MB.
13:45 CET: we checked out svn and the newest version of mediawiki was copied to our server
13:50 CET: We ran $php upgrade.php! It failed like it did a half year ago… what an embargo.
13:51 CET: We started with some strange bugfixes which lead us into new errors according to the include_path. We already felt very bad.
14:20 CET: valhallasw showed up and joined our process in the shell
14:25 CET: He did a lot of testings too and finally we found the problem..
14:32 CET: The upgrade was successful, but the wiki didn’t output any data, again we were frustrated.
14:38 CET: valhallaw started checking the error log and tried to fix it.
14:50 CET: it still didn’t work, we decided to recover our old wiki.
14:55 CET: The old files were recovered, but permissions have been fscked up. Someone forgot to use the -p flag while extracting the archive. So we had to do it again.
15:03 CET: The old files had been recovered… but the wiki was still not working. It was annoying.
15:10 CET: Mucht and I took a break. valhallasw was still on it

— quite a long break —

16:30 CET: The old wiki was working again and we decided to upgrade to 1.6 first which worked fine. the upgrade to 1.9 failed again 🙁

— another long break and the wiki was still offline —

18:45 CET: We decided to install a clean version of 1.9.3 and port the data manually from the running 1.5.x wiki to this new one
18:55 CET: halvalhalla occured again and had some idea’s
19:55 CET: the wiki was working… finally… and we SHOUT THANKS to valhallasw
20:20 CET: I fixed the old skin and a problem with external images

After about 7 hours the wiki is back again and its a newer version!
Enjoy it!

Yes, another newgrf update, but this time I have a more important message than usual: I have updated some of Aegir’s newgrfs. This might break compatibility with old savegames, if it does you should download this old package.
I also added some new grfs, also made by Aegir IIRC, so I hope you guys have fun with the new newstations.

With this update also comes a restart of the sandbox, and guess what, we have a toyland game now so have some fun with the choo-choos.

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Thank you,
Osai