Changes: What is Hydra

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Hydra is the custom technology that powers the Gamepedia wiki farm. Named for the legendary Greek monster, Hydra takes its name from the monster’s ability to grow many heads from a single body. In general terms, this enables us to power all of the wikis on Gamepedia from a single core installation of MediaWiki and makes it simple for us to manage MediaWiki updates and the addition of new features from a central location.

History

In 2011, Curse was running more than two dozen individual wikis, each with its own core MediaWiki code-base. This meant that each time an update was released each wiki had to be updated in turn, eventually leading to near constant updating being needed. Seeing a need to alleviate this problem, a team was put together to create a solution.

Hydra was launched in September 2012 powering 25 wikis, and quickly grew to include more than 150 wikis by the summer of 2013. Today, Hydra powers many hundreds of wikis and allows Gamepedia to be running the most advanced and up-to-date wiki software of any major wiki farm.

Team

Telshin – Team Manager
Azxiana – Lead Developer
Cathadan – PHP Developer
Mischanix – Reverse Engineer

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-'''Hydra''' is the custom tech that powers the Gamepedia wiki farm. Named for the [[wikipedia:Lernaean Hydra|legendary Greek monster]], Hydra takes its name from the monster’s ability to grow many heads from a single body. In general terms, this enables us to power all of the wikis on Gamepedia from a single core installation of MediaWiki and makes it simple for us to manage MediaWiki updates and the addition of new features from a central location.
+'''Hydra''' is the custom technology that powers the Gamepedia wiki farm. Named for the [[wikipedia:Lernaean Hydra|legendary Greek monster]], Hydra takes its name from the monster’s ability to grow many heads from a single body. In general terms, this enables us to power all of the wikis on [[Gamepedia]] from a single core installation of MediaWiki and makes it simple for us to manage MediaWiki updates and the addition of new features from a central location.
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 == History ==
+In 2011, Curse was running more than two dozen individual wikis, each with its own core [[MediaWiki]] code-base. This meant that each time an update was released each wiki had to be updated in turn, eventually leading to near constant updating being needed. Seeing a need to alleviate this problem, a team was put together to create a solution.
+Hydra was launched in September 2012 powering 25 wikis, and quickly grew to include more than 150 wikis by the summer of 2013. Today, Hydra powers many hundreds of wikis and allows [[Gamepedia]] to be running the most advanced and up-to-date wiki software of any major wiki farm.
-In 2011, Curse was running more than two dozen individual wikis, each with its own core MediaWiki codebase. This meant that each time an update was released each wiki had to be updated in turn, eventually leading to near constant updating being needed. Seeing a need to alleviate this problem, a team was put together to create a solution.
-Hydra was launched in September 2012 powering 25 wikis, and quickly began growing to include more than 150 wikis by the summer of 2013. Today, Hydra powers many hundreds of wikis and allows Gamepedia to be running the most advanced and up-to-date wiki software of any major wiki farm.
 == Team ==
 * [[User:Telshin|Telshin]] – Team Manager
 * [[User:Azxiana|Azxiana]] – Lead Developer