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 over a thousand wikis and allows Gamepedia to be running the most advanced and up-to-date wiki software of any major wiki farm.
Team
Former team members:
- Brent Copeland - Software Engineer
- Collink - Software Engineer
- Cathadan - Software Engineer
- Telshin - Software Engineer, Team Manager
Deploy Notes
- Deploy 2015-10-16
- Deploy 2015-10-14
- Deploy 2015-11-04