Codex Gamicus talk:Resurrection

When moving articles from the old site, put the tag to indicate that it's moved, unless you are an admin and can delete it.
The old version doesn't show up. --Evisruc 13:37, 4 May 2006 (PDT)

Yeah. And without that, we'd have to recreate EVERY article from scratch. PLEASE say it's just a bad link and we don't have to start over. --Kaosu Reido 17:06, 4 May 2006 (PDT)

We always have www.strategema.net if worse comes to worse, but that version is a few months old. --Evisruc 18:54, 4 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Nope. That points to this now... :(--AlphaTwo 19:48, 4 May 2006 (PDT)

W00t w00t. Link's fixed now. Time to get to work, everyone! --Kaosu Reido 20:00, 4 May 2006 (PDT)

HOLD IT!!! Achernar, can't you export the old pages into XML, and import it here?--AlphaTwo 20:20, 4 May 2006 (PDT)

Wait, what?--Achernar 20:44, 4 May 2006 (PDT)
 * While I was writing my bot (ironically down because list is not populated), I learned about Special:Export, which does one page (or sets) at a time. This might prove to be helpful, I dunno.--AlphaBot 20:50, 4 May 2006 (PDT)
 * What if we could write the bot to XML export everything over? Small test runs would be wise, but I suppose it's possible... --Achernar 22:59, 4 May 2006 (PDT)

And I fixed the mod_rewrite redirectors this evening to make sure that everyone got where they were supposed to when they went for either the old site or the new site.

All I'm doing to move old articles over is to cut and paste the wikicode. If there's an easier way to do this that DOESN'T involve mysqldumping, I'm all over it, since it would significantly cut down on the amount of work we'd have to do. It was dumping the mysql data that caused a lot of the problems before. The problem with images is that we can't just move the images; we have to do uploads because the database won't know they are there, otherwise.

Alpha, I'm looking into creating a python bot of my own as soon as I can get my Ubuntu box up and running this weekend. I've been dragging my feet on getting that client working, and I need to stop and just get it up.

I know this is a pain in the ass, but we needed to get a fresh start as soon as humanly possible, and I saw people getting bored with what was going on and frustrated with the Unicode issues.

I blame myself and my eagerness to be rid of VizaWeb. --Achernar 20:47, 4 May 2006 (PDT)

Beware of screwy characters when moving pages, I just omittied them and did a little rewording for the The_Codex_Gamicus:Vandalism page. I don't know what was there in the first place that was lost though. --Porphyria Plan 10:56, 5 May 2006 (PDT)

Import, Export, XML
I just experimented with Special: Import and Special: Export, but I dont think I did it right. When exporting, all I get is a bunch of code, so I just copied an XML looking URL and saved it. Tried to import it but I dont know what it did. Got somew eird lines. Is there some program I need for XML? I don't do a lot of this stuff. --Evisruc 21:29, 4 May 2006 (PDT)

Hmmm... I think Notepad works for XML. http://www.xmlcooktop.com/ Here's a free editor, but I know no true XML, so don't look at me. I'm all for a quick transfer, though. --Kaosu Reido 01:14, 5 May 2006 (PDT)

Order of transferring
Is it okay to just transfer pages on a whim, or should we be going in order? Like, I noticed Achernar starting with the years, should we go alphabetically? If we don't, do we run the risk of articles getting lost in the shuffle? --Evisruc 10:17, 5 May 2006 (PDT)

I just did userboxes. I wonder about order too. I think we could include a checklist like below, change or erase as seen fit, it's just a suggestion, might get long though. Listing a console only when all game pages have been moved could save space in the list below--Porphyria Plan 10:27, 5 May 2006 (PDT)


 * My order of attack is starting from my UserPages and look for awkward redlinks. --AlphaTwo 11:16, 5 May 2006 (PDT)

Deleting articles from the old wiki is the best way to know what's been moved and what hasn't. I simply hadn't done that when I started moving things a few nights ago. --Achernar 12:17, 5 May 2006 (PDT)
 * Good point. For those who don't have the rights, flag the file so that a sysop see that it needs deletion.--AlphaTwo 13:18, 5 May 2006 (PDT)
 * I made a template on the old version,, so it doesn't get mixed up with the articles that are actually marked for deletion.  So just keep checking Category: Moved on the old verison.  --Evisruc 13:45, 5 May 2006 (PDT)

Ampersand problem. Again.
See my last move on Yoshi Touch & Go--AlphaTwo 18:52, 5 May 2006 (PDT)

Crap. Huh. Well, Wikipedia itself works fine with &. Are we using old code or something?

Same code as WP. Same *everything*. I'm not quite sure what is causing it, unless it has something to do with the PHP interpreter settings. Let me check and see what's going on with it. Create it with a manual "and" for now, and we can move it later if I can get it fixed. --Achernar 09:14, 8 May 2006 (PDT)

Category
Could some one add the category Category:Codex Gamicus ? Might help some newcomers. --Porphyria Plan 06:32, 24 May 2006 (PDT)

XML export and import step-by-step
I've recently done some XML importing on another wiki, so here's how it's done:

By default files of over 2MB or so won't be able to be imported, so adjust the number of pages you import at once accordingly.
 * 1) Go to Special:Export on the old wiki.
 * 2) Enter EXACT page names, being sure to uncheck the box. Talk pages must be listed separately. Deleted pages can't be exported so restore them first.
 * 3) Click the button and the XML will open. Even if your browser completely fudged the formatting it still worked.
 * 4) Save it to your computer.
 * 5) Go to Special:Import (must be a sysop)
 * 6) Browse for the file and upload it.
 * 7) If it says "Import succeeded!" everything's fine.

Anyway, this way you can carry across the whole edit history. Also, edits automatically get associated with a contributor if they have the same username on both wikis. Hope that helps. Garrett 01:14, 27 May 2006 (PDT)

Resurrection almost complete
Okay, I've gone through the final Long pages of the previous site and either moved them over or marked them as. I'll be glad when this is done. Also, once those articles are deleted should we try and delete everything else. (images, templates, and everything). That way perhaps Achernar might be able to find those articles that got lost due to the use of special characters. I'm thinking mainly of the long Pokémon articles we had. -- Oddity 16:19, 21 August 2006 (PDT)


 * Let me know when you get to that point and I will do everything I can to find them before I destroy the database and the installation. --Achernar 08:54, 22 August 2006 (PDT)