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ShoutWiki
Hi, I'm a staff member on ShoutWiki. We are not about profit. All money we make goes towards further improving ShoutWiki, improving our hardware and software, hopefully paying staff in future etc. Therefore, the table on your main page is wrong. Could you fix it? It would be much better if you didn't jump to conclusions about us. Thank you, Solar Dragon (talk) 09:44, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Apologies, I have corrected this for you. John (talk) 12:32, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

Translation
The french translation is completed. :)

I'm hungry, give me other pages to translate!

--Benjozork (talk) 21:21, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

ShoutWiki
According to http://www.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Special:Version, they're now on 1.22.1. 71.146.135.255 22:55, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Done!  ·addshore·  talk to me! 22:59, 18 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikia
Whilst I don't dispute Wikia are for profit, using what is essentially an anti-wikia page is hardly a neutral reference regardless of the feelings of the author(s) of thispage. Might I suggest which is used as the reference for enwiki's Wikia article when describing them as for-profit?

Also, Wikia is on 1.19.13 :) 88.108.12.108 23:36, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Recent Orain Issues
Hello all,

I first want to start by thanking everyone who's remained loyal to the project, and who's been around to assist. Each and every one of you are the reason that this project is so successful, alive, and doing well.

We've recently ran into issues regarding RamNode, where our servers are held. What I didn't realize was that there are currently two (now three) different invoices for RamNode. When a payment reminder was sent, a PayPal transaction was automatically set up to handle such. When another reminder was sent (RamNode sends three), I assumed that the payment simply hadn't been applied yet. This is an oversight on my part, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

We were recently down for two days due to a security breach. Our VPS had been compromised due to a patch not being applied quickly enough, and as such, our VPS had been used to send DoS attacks. We worked with RamNode directly to secure our VPS and ensure that such activity couldn't continue.

I have made myself available, as the Founder of Orain, to the active Stewards who can contact me directly should there be any issues. We just recently renewed our SSL certificate for another year, and will continue to strive to better ourselves, our services, and thus our community.

For the Staff, D u s t i *Let's talk!* 15:27, 14 July 2014 (BST)
 * Nagios and an another third-party SSL checker says that the SSL cert hasn't been renewed yet. Is that true or is it misleading information? Btw, you're back, that's great. Southparkfan (talk) 15:45, 14 July 2014 (BST)
 * We have the voucher for the cert. - it was secured this morning. It's now just a matter of installing it. Thanks for checking :) D u s t i *Let's talk!* 15:46, 14 July 2014 (BST)
 * I'm going to get around to installing it with in the next hour. John (talk) 16:42, 14 July 2014 (BST)

New Featured Wiki // Translations Needed
Hello all! We now have a new featured Wiki -- All The Tropes! I've updated the English side - so if my multilingual friends could provide translations - that would be awesome :) (I've also updated the main page protection to edit=admin, I'm not sure if that messes with the ability to provide translations or not? D u s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 16:39, 30 July 2014 (BST)

Profit
I do not see why making a profit is a bad thing. The only problem arises when you mistreat the customers in the process of making a profit; the profit alone doesn't hurt anyone. Not that not making a profit is bad either, mind you. 99.240.156.249 21:22, 30 August 2014 (BST)
 * Making a profit is not bad, we're in a few hundred dollars surplus right now to be fair, but when an entity exists as commercial - that is the thing that makes it bad. As the service, as commercial, exists to make optimal money and if it makes a loss, they will do whatever to gain a profit either by forcing something on a user to pay for etc. John (talk) 21:40, 30 August 2014 (BST)

The Trouble with Nginx
I don't know whether this topic should go somewhere else on the Wiki, but I have been having a number of problems with the Nginx server (most of them are 504 gateway timeouts, with a few 403 forbidden's around). Is it a problem with my internet, or with the server itself? Thank you. Tau Ceti (talk) 09:49, 20 October 2014 (BST)

Problème
Bonjour, je tien à signaler que mon wiki (et d'autre) on un problème. La page d'accueil est changer, et il est impossible de se connecter. Merci au administrateur de voir le problème. --82.216.157.172 15:20, 9 January 2015 (GMT)

You're hosting a racist, Stormfront wiki
right.orain.org was created by Stormfront users and former Metapedia users. right.orain.org should be deleted. I'm unable to submit links as evidence. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 15:15, 19 January 2015 (GMT)
 * Hi, we do not delete wikis in general but if there are enough reasons to do so, we will. Please email us at staff(at)orain.org with as much information as needed. Thanks. Southparkfan (talk) 15:24, 19 January 2015 (GMT)
 * I've just sent an Email to the staff address. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 20:46, 19 January 2015 (GMT)
 * Hi Michael. We've received your complaint and have carefully reviewed the content that you've reported. An email has been sent back to you. For the staff, <font face="MV Boli"><font color="#ff0000">D <font color="#ff6600">u <font color="#009900">s <font color="#0000ff">t <font color="#6600cc">i *Let's talk!* 05:55, 20 January 2015 (GMT)
 * I've sent a reply (please view the one with "(**edited for typos**)" in its subject heading). This time, my complaint is about libelous content. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 15:14, 20 January 2015 (GMT)

They're claiming that the "Red Holocaust" was a thing and that Ilya Ehrenburg incited genocide against Germans. Inquisitor S., Großmeister des Ordo Malleus 15:51, 20 January 2015 (GMT)
 * They blocked your account with "security" as the excuse. --Michaeldsuarez (talk) 21:16, 20 January 2015 (GMT)
 * I would like to thank Dusti for his commitment to free speech. Calling something "racist" is not actually a disproof of its truth value or grounds for memory holing. I speak for myself and I'm sure my fellow editors when I say I support entirely factual content and that any concerns in this regard will be addressed. I wish I could say the same for Encyclopedia Dramatica.Mikemikev (talk) 08:16, 22 January 2015 (GMT)

Delete a Wiki
Hi!, we are the owners of the Wiki ipbritanico.orain.org and we would like to delete that wiki from Orain. What shall we do in order to do that?.


 * Wiki's can currently be made completely inaccessbable by having the database entry removed from the Database list, but a sysadmin would have to delete the actual wiki files if you required it. You will probably want to contact a sysadmin directly, or leave a notice on the Stewards' noticeboard. Do you mind if I ask why you don't want the wiki hosted on Orain anymore? We've recently fixed issues with the DDoSing. -- Cheers, NDKilla ( Talk • Contribs ) 21:35, 29 May 2015 (BST)