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Pornopedia Quote
Today (Wednesday, October 25, 2023), Pornopedia Quote has been installed. Saroj, thank you for the cool suggestion! :)
Downtime
Today, Saturday, August 19, 2023 (CEST), Pornopedia was temporarily not available. Sorry for the inconvenience. Everything should work fine again now.
Upgrade
Today (Monday, August 14, 2023), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.40.0.
Upgrade
Today (Monday, August 14, 2023), the server's operating system OpenBSD has been upgraded. During the upgrade process, Pornopedia wasn't available. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Esperanto Pornopedia
Today (Thursday, February 23, 2023), the Esperanto Pornopedia has been installed.
Upgrade
Today (Friday, October 21, 2022), the server's operating system OpenBSD has been upgraded. During the upgrade process, Pornopedia wasn't available. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Upgrade
Today (Saturday, June 4, 2022), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.38.0.
Upgrade
Today (Thursday, April 21, 2022), the server's operating system OpenBSD has been upgraded. During the upgrade process, Pornopedia wasn't available. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Kazakh Pornopedia
Yesterday (Monday, February 28, 2022), the Kazakh Pornopedia has been installed.
Pornopedia Data
Sorry, since the update, Pornopedia Data doesn't work properly anymore. I already reported the problem. Updates will be posted here.
Upgrade
Dear Visitors, Authors and Administrators of Pornopedia,

I'm sorry that Pornopedia was not available recently. I've upgraded the server's operating system OpenBSD and I also upgraded the Wiki software to MediaWiki version 1.37.0.

Unfortunately, I ran into a lot of issues. Somehow I managed to fuck up the databases. I've tried everything I could to get them working again, but it just didn't work. I couldn't even make a database backup so I restored a backup from Friday, November 19, 2021, before the update. So far it seems to work quite well, but I'm sorry, that means that all edits made between the backup and Thursday, November 25, 2021, are not available on Pornopedia anymore.

I invite all authors to also store their articles locally on their computer, not just on Pornopedia, in case anything happens to the databases. Usually, daily backups of the databases are made but apparently, something could always happen.

I would like to apologize again to you for all the problems I caused. I am very sorry!

Thank you, cheers and all the best!

Till

Downtime
Today, Tuesday, June 22, 2021 (CEST), Pornopedia was temporarily not available. Sorry for the inconvenience. Everything should work fine again now.
Downtime
Yesterday, Monday, March 15, 2021, Pornopedia was temporarily not available. Sorry for the inconvenience. Everything should work fine again now.
Downtime
Yesterday, Sunday, August 30, 2020, Pornopedia was temporarily not available. Sorry for the inconvenience. Everything should work fine again now.
Pornopedia user accounts
Getting a Pornopedia user account is now only possible through recommendation of another Pornopedia author. The effort to monitor spam, vandalism and less constructive edits is too big otherwise. If you know someone who would like to join Pornopedia, please contact an administrator.
Mail
We had some mail problems. Sorry for the inconvenience. Everything should work fine again now. If you still notice something weird, please let me know.
Upgrade
Today (Monday, May 20, 2019), the server's operating system OpenBSD has been upgraded. During the upgrade process, Pornopedia wasn't available. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Pornopedia Data
Sorry, since yesterday (Tuesday, August 7, 2018), links to other language versions via Pornopedia Data don't work. Updates will be posted here.

Addition: Since today (Thursday, August 16, 2018), everything works again, thanks to great help.

Upgrade
Yesterday (Tuesday, August 7, 2018), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.31.0.
New administrator
Since today (Friday, April 14, 2017), there is one more administrator on the Turkish Pornopedia: Xbul. May the Force be with you :)
Turkish Pornopedia
Today (Thursday, April 13, 2017), the Turkish Pornopedia has been installed.
New administrator
Since today (Thursday, January 19, 2017), there is one more administrator on the Bengali Pornopedia: Dayeer Neehom. May the Force be with you :)
Upgrade
Today (Tuesday, November 29, 2016), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.28.0.
Sorry!
Dear Visitors, Authors and Administrators of Pornopedia,

I'm sorry that Pornopedia wasn't available very often this week.

Some minor things already didn't work before I upgraded the server's operating system, but after the upgrade it was much worse, for example mail was on the fritz. If you've sent a mail to an @pornopedia.com address this week, it probably got lost. Please send it again. I somehow managed to fuck up lots of things.

After many hours of trial and error, I decided to delete all data from the server and asked for a new installation. During the backup I screwed up again and downloaded an old file. Now hundreds of images are missing; I have to upload them one by one manually but I really deserve that! :) Luckily, I got the latest database backup! :)

This week, I worked like crazy on the server, up to 16 hours a day. I just wanted to fix it so badly. At times, I must have looked like Jack Nicholson in The Shining ;)

I learned lots of stuff and now (Saturday, September 10, 2016), most of the things work again. I installed MediaWiki 1.27.1 and I'll upload the missing images during the next days. If you notice something strange, please let me know. Thanks for your patience and please excuse the inconvenience.

Thanks to the nice people in the OpenBSD Facebook group, you have been very helpful! And to the guys of the data center: You gave me great support like always. You really saved my ass again. Thank you!

Till Kraemer, Chaos Administrator

Edit: Today (Wednesday, September 14, 2016), I uploaded the remaining missing images. Sipzz, thanks for your help! Everything should work fine again now. If you still notice something weird, please let me know.

Upgrade
Today (Tuesday, September 6, 2016), the server's operating system OpenBSD has been upgraded.
Georgian Pornopedia
Today (Thursday, August 25, 2016), the Georgian Pornopedia has been installed.
New administrator
Since yesterday (Thursday, August 18, 2016), there is one more administrator on the Bengali Pornopedia: আজিজ. May the Force be with you :)
Bengali Pornopedia
Today (Wednesday, August 17, 2016), the Bengali Pornopedia has been installed.
SocialProfile
Today (Thursday, July 7, 2016), an extension has been installed on Pornopedia which adds new functions to the profiles.

By default, the real name of a user is shown in the profile when provided for example during registration. That might not been wanted by everyone so we deleted all real names as a precaution. You can re-enter your real name via Special:Preferences if you want to. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused and we hope you have fun with the new profiles.

Upgrade
Today (Thursday, June 30, 2016), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.27.0.
Brazilian Pornopedia
Yesterday (Friday, June 24, 2016), the Brazilian Pornopedia has been installed.
Upgrade
Today (Tuesday, January 5, 2016), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.26.2.
Upgrade
Today (Monday, December 14, 2015), the server's operating system OpenBSD has been upgraded.
Upgrade
Today (Thursday, December 3, 2015), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.26.0.
Upgrade
Last Friday (June 5, 2015), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.25.1.
New server
Last week (Tuesday, June 2, 2015) Pornopedia has moved to a new OpenBSD server.
Mobile view
Since today (Monday, January 5, 2015), the mobile view is available on Pornopedia.
Upgrade
Today (Tuesday, December 2, 2014), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.24.0.
New administrator
Since yesterday (Monday, August 18, 2014), there is one more administrator on the Bulgarian Pornopedia: Xbul. May the Force be with you :)
Pornopedia in Bulgarian
Today (Friday, August 15, 2014), the Bulgarian Pornopedia has been installed.
New administrator
Since today (Saturday, June 21, 2014), there is one more administrator on the Serbian Pornopedia: Иван. May the Force be with you :)
Upgrade
Today (Saturday, June 7, 2014), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.23.0.
Pornopedia in Serbian
Today (Wednesday, June 4, 2014), the Serbian Pornopedia has been installed.
Pornopedia in Italian
Today (Friday, January 17, 2014), the Italian Pornopedia has been installed.
Upgrade/Nginx
Yesterday (Thursday, January 16, 2014), the server's operating system OpenBSD has been upgraded and the web server has been switched from Apache to Nginx.
Upgrade
Today (Friday, January 3, 2014), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.22.0.
CloudFlare
Since today (Tuesday, December 31, 2013), Pornopedia uses CloudFlare.

Addition: Since today (Monday, January 13, 2014), not anymore.

Addition 2: Since today (Friday, January 17, 2014), again.

Pornopedia in Russian
Today (Friday, November 1, 2013), the Russian Pornopedia has been installed.
Pornopedia in Dutch
Today (Wednesday, September 18, 2013), the Dutch Pornopedia has been installed.
Pornopedia in Armenian
Today (Tuesday, April 23, 2013), the Armenian Pornopedia has been installed.
1 year of Swedish Pornopedia
Today (Tuesday, December 4, 2012), the Swedish Pornopedia celebrates its first anniversary. Congratulations!
Upgrade
Today (Wednesday, November 7, 2012), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.20.0.
Upgrade
Today (Monday, November 5, 2012), the server's operating system OpenBSD has been upgraded.
Upgrade
Today (Thursday, September 6, 2012), the server's operating system OpenBSD has been upgraded.
New administrators
Since today (Thursday, July 19, 2012), there are two more administrators on Pornopedia: Sipzz on the Swedish Pornopedia and Kenji on the German Pornopedia. May the Force be with you :)
Performance tuning
Yesterday (Tuesday, June 5, 2012), performance tuning has been done in order to make the Pornopedia website faster.

Among other things, a file cache has been activated, which generates a static HTML file for every article and shows that file to the anonymous user. For the logged in user, Memcached has been installed and activated. Memcached caches the website in the RAM.

Unfortunately, the hit counter doesn't work well with file caching, that's why the counter has been completely deactivated today. It's nice to know how many times an article has been viewed, but for many Pornopedia users it's nicer to have a faster website.

Upgrade
Today (Wednesday, May 9, 2012), the Wiki software has been upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.19.0.