Updating the wiki's Gfycat links to Imgur instead

[Antvasima]

Hello.

We need to update all Gfycat gif file links from our regular wiki pages so they lead to Imgur instead, given that Gfycat has redirected most of the old links to a site with **** ads.

See here for a list of all of them:

External links search | VS Battles Wiki | Fandom

vsbattles.fandom.com

As you can see, only a small part of the listed links are not from our old wiki discussions forum, so it should not be as big a task as it first appears.

I would strongly suggest either using the uBlock Origin plugin in Mozilla Firefox or the Brave browser (preferably the latter) while clicking on those links and copying the gif files though, as you will otherwise be exposed to quite a lot of disgusting imagery.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[Antvasima]

@Abstractions @Shadowbokunohero @Mindovin @Crazylatin77 @Jvando @Zaratthustra @SamanPatou @Just_a_Random_Butler

 

[Zaratthustra]

I can help on Saturday-Sunday.

 

[KLOL506]

Just a note: Ublock Origin is also on Chrome. It is a reliably handy tool one should always have on their internet arsenal.

 

[Antvasima]

I can help on Saturday-Sunday.

Thank you very much for helping out. It is very appreciated.

 

[Zaratthustra]

Updated a part of the profiles that had the gfycat links and for the rest I will work a bit each day, especially on Afro Samurai who has 67 individual links as it will take a lot of edits to finish his profile. Three profiles left.

A thing I've noticed is that most of the links are either in blogs (small part) and the rest on old versus threads pages like 175 links on a Pickachu one.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. Thanks a lot for helping out.

We should probably get a new editing rule about not using Gfycat for image linking anymore.

 

[Zaratthustra]

Yeah, a rule regarding this should work.

 

[Antvasima]

I will add one then.

 

[Antvasima]

It seems like I had already added a text to the Editing Rules page about this.

 

[Rikimarox2]

Yeah, I made the CRT to not use gfycat anymore. It was a while back.

Anyways, I could help with this. I don't think we need a CRT in order to change gfycat links, no?

 

[Antvasima]

No you don't. Feel free to help with replacing them.

 

[Rikimarox2]

Alright so, I've done changing a few profiles, and I believe all Gfycat links in profiles have been changed.

All that remains now is old discussion threads, which I don't need to change, and blogs. I'm pretty sure I can't change links in blogs unless given permission by the blog owner.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. Thank you very much for helping out.

I think that content moderators can edit blog posts.