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There are basically two ways of supporting the Eternal Lands Wiki:
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* By editing pages, correcting them, enhancing them or even creating completely new contents, since this is a Wiki, this is the most important kind of support, details on how to contribute can be found on the [[Main Page]] and the page [[Eternal Lands Wiki:About|About]] the Eternal Lands Wiki.
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* Financial support to cover the costs of hosting the site, the remainder of this page explains the details of this aspect.
  
= DONATIONS =
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== Costs ==
Yes, please donate, every penny helps.
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There are currently two items that cost money associated with hosting the wiki
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* the actual hosting, which is done over a multi-domain account of Krrick of Riva, the wiki will most likely consume the major part of the bandwidth. I'll update this once we gathered some statistics on this. The monthly costs associated with this are to be put here once I talk to Krrick (around 6-8 USD/month I think). Edit by Krrick: The actual cost of hosting is US$7.77/month. This is extremely low cost hosting and hopefully I will be able to keep this plan for the forseeable future.
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* the registration of the domain, this is being done by Ermabwed of GWaR, total yearly cost of this item being 6 euro.
  
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
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== Donations ==
Why?  
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Use the button "Make a donation" below to send a financial contribution to the wiki. The list of contributors will be updated with your in game name (or stay anonymous if you wish), the amount and the date of your contribution.
* to keep the server from having to go down as often for repairs!
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* to help defray the costs associated with having a server.
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=== Frequently Asked Questions ===
* to allow for updates to how the server is run
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Actually, I am not sure if those are actually frequently asked, but maybe you'd like to know anyways.
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==== Why? ====
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* to help defray the costs associated with hosting the wiki.
 
* to defray the cost to own the URL
 
* to defray the cost to own the URL
* to help cover expanding bandwidth usage
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* and thus to ensure that the wiki is here tomorrow
* to ensure that the wiki is here tomorrow
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<!--=== Is there anything else I could get? ===
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* YES - your donation can buy anywhere from 1 day to 1 month of focus on any particular subject you would like to have more information on.  Say you want to know everything there is to know about IP, who the NPCs are, where they are located, what harvestsbles exist there, any secrets or specials - and clearly outlined everything about them...  We would focus what time we had on the wiki to handle these issues.-->
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=== Who has donated ===
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==== donations in 2009 ====
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==== pre 2009 donations ====
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Please note that the comments below apply to the old site at ''dragoncairn.net''
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* Setec of TECH - Generously donated operating funds<br />
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* Audhilde of FoCW - hardware donation of a UPS that will help prevent data losses that have occurred in the past due to improper shutdown from lack of electricity.<br />
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* Bob48 - Generously donated operating funds - a repeat donor<br />

Latest revision as of 05:08, 11 December 2010

There are basically two ways of supporting the Eternal Lands Wiki:

  • By editing pages, correcting them, enhancing them or even creating completely new contents, since this is a Wiki, this is the most important kind of support, details on how to contribute can be found on the Main Page and the page About the Eternal Lands Wiki.
  • Financial support to cover the costs of hosting the site, the remainder of this page explains the details of this aspect.

Costs

There are currently two items that cost money associated with hosting the wiki

  • the actual hosting, which is done over a multi-domain account of Krrick of Riva, the wiki will most likely consume the major part of the bandwidth. I'll update this once we gathered some statistics on this. The monthly costs associated with this are to be put here once I talk to Krrick (around 6-8 USD/month I think). Edit by Krrick: The actual cost of hosting is US$7.77/month. This is extremely low cost hosting and hopefully I will be able to keep this plan for the forseeable future.
  • the registration of the domain, this is being done by Ermabwed of GWaR, total yearly cost of this item being 6 euro.

Donations

Use the button "Make a donation" below to send a financial contribution to the wiki. The list of contributors will be updated with your in game name (or stay anonymous if you wish), the amount and the date of your contribution.

Frequently Asked Questions

Actually, I am not sure if those are actually frequently asked, but maybe you'd like to know anyways.

Why?

  • to help defray the costs associated with hosting the wiki.
  • to defray the cost to own the URL
  • and thus to ensure that the wiki is here tomorrow

Who has donated

donations in 2009

pre 2009 donations

Please note that the comments below apply to the old site at dragoncairn.net

  • Setec of TECH - Generously donated operating funds
  • Audhilde of FoCW - hardware donation of a UPS that will help prevent data losses that have occurred in the past due to improper shutdown from lack of electricity.
  • Bob48 - Generously donated operating funds - a repeat donor