Changes to the official Unreal Engine Wiki

[Zeblote]

This is certainly not epic.

[KristofMorva (Kristóf Morva)]

@Rama

That can’t possibly be the Truth, because the entire engine source code is available only across the barrier of providing an email address.
If there’s a security threat it is the fact that entire engine source code is free, not that some wiki taught the world how to do something that you can figure out yourself by studying the engine source code long enough.

@braindigitalis

I think the security they talk about isnt concern about what content is being put on the wiki.

Exactly, @Rama you might have misunderstood, it’s very likely that there is a vulnerability in the wiki web app (not in the contents of the wiki).
Of course, it’s still not a way to handle it, I just wanted to mention it for clarification

[anonymous_user_175639661 (anonymous_user_17563966)]

I suggest building a web page that redirects old wiki articles to their relevant documentation equivalent instead of redirecting to this forum post.

For pages that don’t have a relevant documentation equivalent, collect the amount of traffic and prioritize new documentation based on the traffic to those pages.

My 2 cents!

[MarkcusD]

I saved this link to work on this later: A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki - Announcements and Releases - Unreal Engine Forums

Is this code mirrored somewhere else?

[ambershee]

Just to clear up some misconceptions (and to be clear, I’m not taking a side here, my personal opinion on the sudden closure of the Wiki is that it’s an extremely poor move on the part of Epic having neglected most, if not all, of their community channels for such a long time);

@Rama

That can’t possibly be the Truth, because the entire engine source code is available only across the barrier of providing an email address.

If there’s a security threat it is the fact that entire engine source code is free, not that some wiki taught the world how to do something that you can figure out yourself by studying the engine source code long enough.

The security issue is with the wiki software. This is somewhat unsurprising since it hadn’t been updated in quite some time; locking it for editing all the time ago may have stopped the spam from getting through, but without that content having been migrated to something less vulnerable, the outdated wiki software likely now poses a vulnerability across what is a fairly integrated ecosystem.

@Sgt_Bouz

Yes, but they do not own the wiki content, neither did they have any right to remove it. It’s not theirs.

I dislike the sudden removal as much as the next person, but, they do own the content. They also own all the content posted here, and on the Answerhub. It’s in the terms of service you agreed to when you registered.

@anonymous_user_175639661

I suggest building a web page that redirects old wiki articles to their relevant documentation equivalent instead of redirecting to this forum post.

For pages that don’t have a relevant documentation equivalent, collect the amount of traffic and prioritize new documentation based on the traffic to those pages.

One of the reasons a lot of people are upset, is because there is no documentation equivalent to a number of the more valuable pages.

[FunAndFriendly]

[THERE IS A STATIC VERSION OF THE WIKI HERE

An Archive.org backup of wiki.unrealengine.com | wiki.unrealengine.com](An Archive.org backup of wiki.unrealengine.com | wiki.unrealengine.com)

I recreated the wiki.unrealengine.com site from the internet archive backups, transcoding it to markdown, then a static site in VuePress. I’ve been focusing on learning Unreal for a few months, and it was nice to take a vacay back to the cozy land of web dev.

Anyways, I’m putting it down for a minute, what should we do now? PR’s welcome.

Michael

– Anger is self-liberating - it exhausts or destroys itself. – The Buddha

[anonymous_user_2709d010]

Anyone have any backups of the Dedicated Server, or Advanced Plugin Wiki pages? If so Please share them.

You can find several tutorials about that on youtube when you search for the keywords there

[ianFisch]

Some of the best online tutorials, including **official Unreal Engine **tutorials, hosted their assets on the wiki.

Thanks for taking it down and making those useless.

We’re a bunch of coders. Do you really think we’re going to believe the “having a read-only wiki is a security risk” excuse??? Show a little respect to your users.

[minsin56]

After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline.

We recognize that the Wiki has been a valuable resource for many of you during your development journey, and we will be incorporating the top-visited content from the Wiki into various official resources, such as blogs, documentation, and forum discussions. Original authors will, of course, continue to be credited for their efforts.

Thank you to those of you who have contributed to the Wiki with your knowledge and tutorials over the years. You’ve helped grow and encourage the community to become what it is today, and we hope you will stay engaged here, guiding and supporting each other.

Looking for help? Visit unrealengine.com/support to access loads of community resources, as well as Unreal Online Learning, our growing catalog of nearly 50 free courses and curated learning paths.

Lastly, are there any Wiki resources that you have found to be particularly helpful that are not reflected in existing documentation or tutorials? Please let us know in the comments below and we’ll work to surface that content!

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*Update *

*Why can’t we put a read-only archive online currently? *
The Wiki, even in it’s read-only state, was presenting security risks, and it was deemed necessary to take it offline.

We still have the data, and as mentioned above, we will work to migrate the top content into various official resources. In the meantime, we’re investigating how we can make this content available, even in a rudimentary way.

the wiki was more helpful than the “documentation”

[DamirH]

I’d say that this sucks big time but the at this point it’s basically putting the wiki out of its misery… We just need to start up a community wiki and have the community maintain it. Wouldn’t be the first of its kind.

[alsk2019]

The Wiki is unbelivably offline, give the Wiki back.
It is the convenient place to search some knowledges assisting official documentations.
I learned much from the Wiki (Coder, Alone), it was made of many people’ efforts…

[vincemektek]

April fools right? Right?

[DecDoyle]

Any chance we can get a wiki export or a download?

There was a LOT of useful pages on that wiki that a few developers return to from time to time.

[Kamen]

I think this was a bad ideia, regressing the learning curve more for users, especially C++ folks. Where unreal wiki was a great font of knowladge. A pdf version of wiki, is a good strategy, and I looking forward for Unreal staff create a better documentation with exemple as wiki had or give a way to see it again. Thanks.

[anonymous_user_2b67a1ef]

I’ve started restoring the wiki content manually to Unreal:Main Page - wiki.vg. It will take me a couple weeks to restore the majority of the content manually, but the good news is that between the Google cache and wayback machine a large portion of the content is available to be restored even if Epic does not provide the XML mediawiki dump.

If anyone is familiar with mediawiki and has the time, it looks like Epic used a tool to migrate from a different wiki tool to mediawiki and it really tells in the markup. Some of the pages are terrifying messes of inline html, headers are tags instead of ==, ===, etc. Feel free to contribute.

The wiki.vg project started nearly 10 years ago to document the technical aspects of Minecraft and has been up (ad-free) ever since. I’m more than happy to keep the unreal wiki content alive on it forever.

[LNaej]

I’m not familiar with Wiki securities issues, but is there an actual good reason for not providing a proper dump of the wiki (like in “mediawiki friendly easy to import dump”) to the community so it can be restarted somewhere else with minimum effort?
Or maybe Epic is already doing that behind the scene with some highly involved community members?

These are real questions, not trying to be aggressive or whatever here, just trying to understand.

[Yaeko]

so,… its April 2nd, 09:19 AM, and the wiki still is offline?

@Epic - April Fools are only done on April 1st, usually.

At least provide a download link to the wiki as a .zip to open locally…

EDIT: Fine, whatever, we still have YouTube and other sources, now that epic killed the wiki.

[Anonymous_dc35b1f8e3e9594cc41d6f8f659a166d]

I just want to ask why!!! why ???why???

[Zebratov]

Integration of opencv 3rd party lib into UE4 BP system:
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Integr…nreal_Engine_4

[Zebratov]

A new, community-hosted Unreal Engine Wiki