Subject: Oh, that's not classy at all.
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Posted on: 2008-08-09 05:15:00 UTC
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.
I just got an email from the WikiLot administrators, which is that WikiLot is going to be shutting down all the wikis running on their servers. Tomorrow, no less.
This includes the PPC wiki.
"We have some sad news. Effective tomorrow WikiLot will be shutting down. We can no longer afford to keep the site running. We suggest using the export feature on you wiki to export your database to a file. Then you can sign up for a wiki at Wikia or another Wiki Farm and import your wiki. We apologize for this inconvenience."
I've already begun to fill out the request for a Wikia wiki, and have begun to export all of the Wiki articles so far so that way we'll still have everything.
But yeah. One day notice? Not fun.
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.
I've got more than just the HTML. My zealous little spider poked around the edit pages and grabbed all the wiki-code, too. With a bit of cutting and pasting, we can have everything back -- talk pages, everything.
The bad news: The save fills a CD. This thing is HUGE. My net connection can't handle uploading that; the download took hours, and that's the fast side of ADSL. Contact me through my FFN profile with a snail address to send it to (doesn't have to be yours; a friendly local business or something will do fine if you don't trust the Critic) and I'll get the CD out to you tomorrow.
They did manage to get a copy of everything, so just need to wait and make sure, first, I think, on that.
...it'll save you a lot of cutting and pasting and me a trip to the post office. If it turns out do you need any of it, though, let me know and I'll get the CD out to you by Priority Snail. If not, at least I'll be able to read the wiki when my net connection is down! :)
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.
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.
Restarted with slightly different spider settings. :-/ Greedy little bugger decided to eat all of gnu.org while it was at it. Sometimes this thing has a very hard time comprehending the idea of limits.
The PPC wiki is now copied in full. 676 meg of it.
This means we have (among other things) the wiki-code sources for each page, including the talk pages, etc. It might have missed some images; it's not too bright about images sometimes. But other than that, we've got it.
Reconstructing the wiki from the rip would have to be a pretty massive distributed project, but at least now we can, in the event that we need to.
That sucks. Big props to you July, for taking on that extraordinarily crazy task. We owe you big time.
It's my Duty to ensure that Something is done about this.
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.
I'm so sorry! I read you wiki post before I even logged into messenger, and then FORGOT. What a fool I am...
Ah, well. My user page is saved as an html doc, not that it matters much.
I promise you, you were not distracting me in the least bit.
Doing what I had to do to prep it for exporting was boring enough that I needed that to keep my brain going.
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.
Wow. That's...insane. You insane, dedicated lady. I give you cookies to help you on your endeavor. Holy crap.
Let us know if there's anything we can do, July.
I have some pages saved as html files - only a few, though...