Remember when we added HTTPS support a year and a bit ago? It turned out to be a little too complicated for most people to get running.

Now we've simplified with the help of free certificates from StartSSL. These cover the English and Russian WikiFur, as well as Flayrah and the Yerf Historical ArchiveIf any other language projects wish to enable ( Read more... )

A recent DNS outage at GoDaddy may cause wikifur.com and flayrah.com to be inaccessible because your browser cannot turn the name into an address ( Read more... )

Looks like Google has figured out all the best furry conventions:


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Remember Wikipedia? Yeah, there's life outside WikiFur, and WikiProject Furry has been set up to maintain the roughly 100 articles about furry-related topics on the Big Wiki.

However, the project has recently fallen quiet - and as usual, the ravages of Deletionism threaten what has been built over many years. The list of furry conventions has ( Read more... )

My apologies to users for the two hours of downtime tonight! While upgrading the server to PHP 5.4 (a new version of the software which powers MediaWiki), a configuration error caused the central script processor to be left at 5.3. This didn't work so well when the database access modules had been upgraded . . .

Page rendering should now be much ( Read more... )

It's the last day of Ursa Major voting - if you've not picked from the nominees, now would be a good time . . .

The Ursa Major Award nominees are out, and WikiFur is on the ballot (along with our news partner Flayrah, formerly WikiFur News ( Read more... )

Those of you watching WikiFur's recent changes this week may have noticed an influx of spam. There's a new program out which automates spamming to an unprecedented level. We currently get about one attempt to spam every minute, and I only expect this rate to increase ( Read more... )

Do you edit from a land down under - or somewhere nearby? Are you interested in connecting with and learning from other editors? Why not visit Recent Changes Camp 2012, to be held January 20-22 by the University of Canberra!

Travel scholarships may be available for qualified participants, but time is short; if you are considering applying, please ( Read more... )

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