PortWiki has been gaining enough momentum that I have decided on giving it a new home at www.portwiki.net. This makes accessing the wiki easier therefore increasing the activity and hopefully boosting the image of the site throughout the internet community.

I hope this will also allow you, the contributors, to spread the word easier by not having to share a bloated url!

Well I am starting to impress even myself when looking at how this project is really coming together, of course with the help of MediaWiki & Extensions. AJAX Category Trees have stepped in providing an even simpler user interface than before.

A new category has also been added, ‘Routers’. Coinidental with its name, Routers contains sub-categories of manufacturers which contain sub-pages of the router models each containing instructions on how to configure port forwarding for that model. I copied all the easy create article setup into both sections which means its easy to add your own if you feel like it.

 I am very near to finishing the port pinger section, just a small glitch with the get variables on top of ?title=.

Another successfull day,
Shadow

This utility was made more for myself however I decided to release it into the public domain because it was just so handy.

It can be used in several ways, Firstly it is able to test your own computers firewall security. Secondly it is able to tell you whether those ports you just forewarded will work from another location without having to bother anyone. Handy Eh

http://www.portwiki.net/index.php?title=Special:PortPinger

One of the biggest challenged i faced was attempting to create a structure of templates and categories within wikimedia to accomodate for the port, game and application structure, overall it needed to be easy for users to add content easily.

I made my own extensions to suit the requirements of the site instead of relying on multiple extensions at one time, within my ‘ShadowFunctions’ I made simple looping php scripts to parse ports in the format of #,#,# and automatically place the applications and games that use those ports into the right categories.

This is a new idea a came up with, bascially to index all 65534 ports both TCP and UDP. Information will include the applications and games that utilize these ports and other general information such as typical uses. Join Today to help develop this PortWiki.

 http://www.portwiki.net