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Yes, exactly.
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EXTREMELY URGENT: Gfycat is shutting down completely on September 1st. Please help out with replacing all of our wiki gif links to this site.
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Isn't there some other safe and reliable site that can convert video clips to gif-files, and after that you can upload it to our wiki or Imgur?
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I tend to use imgflip.
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(Would like to thank Butler for replacing the links in my sandbox, I did a couple myself but had to stop)
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It appears that there are only a few sandboxes remaining with gfycat links, and I expect that they'll be cleared by today.
IdiosyncraticLawyer seems to have done significant work.
IdiosyncraticLawyer seems to have done significant work.
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Yeah, there was a lot. I also came across like 1 or 2 other sandboxes that had a lot of links, with one having 100+ files, though the hassle was more on downloading and uploading the files because it still takes time... and uploading the files that I have already uploaded, making the downloading kind of pointless sometimes.
Agreed.Yes, IdiosyncraticLawyer and catzlaflame have also been awesome with helping out.
Also, Idiosyncratic's DPL should have no pages remaining. So, aside from deletion, are there any other Gfycat-related tasks that require attention?
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Just to blacklist Gfycat and Redgifs from the wiki.
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Yes. I have asked our wiki manager for help with that.
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Anyway, @Maverick_Zero_X seems to have created a new page that contains Gfycat links:
vsbattles.fandom.com
Antvasima/DPL2
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Should be alright now.Anyway, @Maverick_Zero_X seems to have created a new page that contains Gfycat links:
Antvasima/DPL2
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Thank you again. 
I have reminded our wiki manager again about helping us out with setting up a new wiki content filter. Hopefully he or another Fandom staff member will handle it soon. Or do any of our administrators know exactly how to handle the content filter code?
I have reminded our wiki manager again about helping us out with setting up a new wiki content filter. Hopefully he or another Fandom staff member will handle it soon. Or do any of our administrators know exactly how to handle the content filter code?
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I don't think that's particularly important anymore.
Gifs were used instead of video files due to being smaller, but that's no longer a constraint for a lot of people. To the point where a lot of these "gif hosters" actually just use videos with the audio tracks removed;
I remember taking a glance at that years ago, and it seemed pretty intuitive, but I no longer remember anything about it. Not even the page it's stored on.
I could probably figure it out if the relevant page was linked to me, but if you want someone who already knows, you'd have to look elsewhere.
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Use this page; the syntax is the same as Wikipedia's version.Thank you again.
I have reminded our wiki manager again about helping us out with setting up a new wiki content filter. Hopefully he or another Fandom staff member will handle it soon. Or do any of our administrators know exactly how to handle the content filter code?
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Our wiki manager gave me some advice in this regard, but I encountered an error when trying to apply the change in question to one of our wiki content filters, so I am waiting for some further input from him.
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There should be a class or an attribute specifically for external links.
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Mind sending me the link privately? I could ask my connections to solve the issue as well.
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No; how it works is it only filters out usages of "gfycat.com" that aren't immediately preceded or followed by letters or numbers.
So just "gfycat" itself wouldn't be hit as no .com is included. "gregfycat.com" wouldn't be hit as it's prepended by letters. And "https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=gfycat.commercial.usage" wouldn't be hit as it's followed by letters.
I don't believe that distinct domains can have separators that aren't letters or numbers, so this should cover all gfycat domains and subdomains (i.e. "media.gfycat.com") without hitting any other websites.
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Well, I will remind our wiki manager to try to handle it with our url links filter rather than with our main slur words filter first, but if that doesn't work out, I will try with your method instead.
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I tested this in my sandbox, and gfycat has been blocked, but redgifs got missed.I have been given instructions about how to properly update our abuse filter for disallowed external links, so I have done so. I hope that it will work properly.
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The redgifs one wasn't added in the filter yet, I think.
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I have done so.
Btw:
The following new page contains Gfycat links that need to be replaced:
vsbattles.fandom.com
And we might need to edit some public blog post comments as well:
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Btw:
The following new page contains Gfycat links that need to be replaced:
Hulk throws a rock
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And we might need to edit some public blog post comments as well:
Catzlaflame/DPL2
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As far as I can tell, this is beyond our permission. Apologies
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I tested it in my sandbox, and it works properly now.I have done so.
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I have edited that specific blog when you sent that message, but my pc broke so I had to use a different pc.I have done so.
Btw:
The following new page contains Gfycat links that need to be replaced:
Hulk throws a rock
And we might need to edit some public blog post comments as well:
Catzlaflame/DPL2
As for the DPL, my editing capabilities were limited to user blog comments and talk pages. Additionally, I needed to replace Idiosyncratic's archived links for the gfycat files because the abuse filter prevents me from editing the pages without removing them. And even if they weren't detected, they would still appear in the DPL, necessitating the use of nowiki tags, so I had to remove those, sorry.
I do not have the power to edit those messages on message walls so someone else will have to handle that. And also, I have purged the DPL several times already and those user blog comments won't disappear in the list for some reason.
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