Last Update for now. by
JulyFlame
on 2008-08-10 02:46:00 UTC
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Once again, a link to the new wiki. Please keep this one in mind for links.
The whole database wasn't moved, so I've done my best to upload what I could. As anyone can tell with a cursory search on there, there are quite a few holes right now, but I'm doing my best to make sure I get everything back up. It's hard to tell what's missing though since the 'Wanted Pages' page has yet to update to show me this.
I'd be more than grateful if people would start signing up on this wiki and helped get it back in order; for instance, many, if not all of the redirects that were in place seem to have died, but this might be due to the fact that everything is taking awhile to get back into place. I don't really know for sure.
In the case of articles that were lost in the move, it'd be brilliant if I could get the saved HTML versions from you, Wandering Critic, since you mentioned your spider had collected them all. As it is though, I'm not sure which/if any were lost since some pages are being tricky and displaying red links to pages that I know for certain are already up. I'm figuring this is due to confusion on the part of the software.
Update! by
JulyFlame
on 2008-08-09 22:00:00 UTC
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The new Wiki has been set up.
Hopefully one of the Wikia people will be helping get everything from the old wiki's database over there before everything is deleted, but if this is not the case, I've already exported all of the articles (if not talk pages and user pages) so those can be imported if that doesn't work.
Thanks to everyone that offered to help or did help in attempting to preserve everything, and hopefully we'll have this wiki completely set up again before the weekend is over.
I'm ripping the site now by
Wandering Critic
on 2008-08-09 06:35:00 UTC
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My spider is at this very moment sucking up the whole PPC wiki. It collects it as the generated HTML pages, of course, not the underlying data, but in the event that July's export or later import fails, at least we'll have the content -- though we might need a fair bit of cutting and pasting to get some of it back where it belongs.
I wish I could do more, but I can't think of anything else I can do without blowing my anonymity. Given that my hobby is whacking spoiled fanbrats with a clue-by-four, I'd rather make it as hard as possible for them to retaliate with anything more than angry words.
What the ****? **** *** in *** **** and ***** their **** **. by
pigeonarmy
on 2008-08-09 05:54:00 UTC
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That sucks. Big props to you July, for taking on that extraordinarily crazy task. We owe you big time.
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JulyFlame
on 2008-08-09 05:33:00 UTC
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I've spent the last few hours working at it, and I have all of the articles exported and ready for another wiki once the request for the wikia one goes through.
However, I can't do anything about the User pages or talk pages.
User pages because Wikia accounts go for all of wikia, not just one wiki (So can't do that), and talk pages would take far more time than I have right now.
What I have exported though are the articles, templates, and categories, so there won't be too much rewriting going on. Images will need to be reuploaded, though once we get to that.
Hopefully the wikia request will go through, but after that everyone is going to need to change links.
Sorry for all of that, really stupid of me. I considered going to Wikia in the first place for the wiki but decided against since I didn't think this would happen with WikiLot.
Oh, that's not classy at all. by
Enelya
on 2008-08-09 05:15:00 UTC
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I wonder how many people have been caught out by the one-day-notice thing?
In any case, because you got the email in time, and because you're transfering files, and because the whole thing was your idea, I think you should get a 'Saviour of the PPC Wiki' badge or something.
*hug* by
Sara
on 2008-08-09 02:57:00 UTC
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Wow. That's...insane. You insane, dedicated lady. I give you cookies to help you on your endeavor. Holy crap.
*seconds offer of help* by
Tomato
on 2008-08-09 02:56:00 UTC
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Let us know if there's anything we can do, July.
Anything we can do to help you? by
Sedri
on 2008-08-09 01:27:00 UTC
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I have some pages saved as html files - only a few, though...