Changes at YoungWizards.com

by YWCom Admin

If you’re seeing this post, you’re already seeing the most important aspect of the changes presently taking place: the beginning of the transformation of  YW.com into a portal for all things pertaining to the Young Wizards universe.

Changes like this usually involve both the addition of new services and the removal of older, less popular ones. The recent hacking of the YoungWizards.com website (from which we’re still recovering) appears to have taken place through one of Diane Duane’s legacy projects, the Errantry Concordance. Despite our best attempts to secure it against interference, the Concordance’s original Mediawiki format leaves it vulnerable to attacks by spammers.

Since the wiki format has proven over time to not be the best suited to support the purpose for which DD intended the Concordance — a general / informal reference to the Young Wizards universe — we will be closing down the ErrantryWiki with immediate effect. It will be replaced later in 2016 by a WordPress-based installation containing the same information but with more robust security to protect it against further attempts by spammers to exploit its presence.

Some of our older resources, such as the Young Wizards Discussion Forums, are also being looked at to see whether they suit the needs of our present users. There’ll be more news of this in the weeks to come.

Meanwhile we invite you to have a look around the new site! This relaunch will be a progressive business as we gather together and restructure resources that have either been part of the original installation and got lost in the shuffle, or which have not previously been made public. We look forward to giving everyone interested in the world of the Young Wizards a new and easy way to find out what’s new and what’s going on. And for your patience while we sort this business out, we thank you very much in advance!

 

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