So, I feel that we are now at the point where I can start letting others register on the new site to help move over articles.
As you can see on the new Article listing, I have created "dummy" articles, which need to have the contents of their respective lostmedia.wikia.com pages copied over (just the plain source code at this point in time, as I have done with Lot 2) after which point I will go through all the articles one-by-one fixing them up to fit with our new formatting scheme and giving them a spruce-up in general (as I have done with Lot 1).
To anyone who is interested in helping transfer articles, please add me on Skype and we will take it from there (Skype name is, you guessed it, dycaite). Ideally, different users will be assigned different article lots, so as to avoid unnecessarily repeating already-done work. I will then make you an account of your desired username with a stock password, which you can then change yourself.
Thanks to anyone who decides to help; this thread will be updated with participating volunteers and their respective article lots.
Yeah, if you don't have Skype, you can contact me via other social media like Steam. Also, while it does sound like a good idea in theory, how do we then go about importing the database download to the new site? For the record, I've already made a HTTrack dump of lostmedia.wikia.com. In any case, it's good to know the option exists to request a database dump, so thanks for letting me know
why not just create a bot to download all the stuff on the pages like videos pics and text and then put all that in folders according to category and then have all the articles in there own folders by like text pics videos,but if not i will help as well
why not just create a bot to download all the stuff on the pages like videos pics and text and then put all that in folders according to category and then have all the articles in there own folders by like text pics videos,but if not i will help as well
I actually have a current backup of lostmedia.wikia.com that I made with HTTrack, so I have all the images, text, etc. downloaded (I've also downloaded about 75% of the videos used on the site). My media backup is quite similar too, ie. separate folders for each article. If however, you are referring to a bot to automatically transfer the articles over, besides not knowing of any way of doing that, I also wanted to fix up all the article titles (or get them roughly where I want them) before moving them over, plus I wanted them broken up into lots, as I currently have them; it makes things much easier and straightforward for me to manage.
OK great Either add me on Skype or Steam and we'll take it from there.
Just a note to all the people I've currently registered: please, at this point, don't do ANYTHING other than copying source text over (ie. go to the lostmedia.wikia.com article, hit edit, go to source mode, copy the contents and paste them into their respective blank pages as per lostmediawiki.com/Article_listing). I don't want any images uploaded (as I am going to be renaming many of them for easier organisation and accessibility) or any of the content changed (I will go through each and every article myself and touch them all up; there's no point making little edits here and there if I'm going to revamp the whole article in the end).
I went through today during my spare time and quickly filled in the lots that needed their contents copied over, this should give you an idea of what I am wanting from you guys. I'll continue adding blank article lots from here on in; feel free to transfer some of them over (just, if you decide to do a particular lot or lots, let me know which ones you've picked).
OK i also added you on steam and Skype but my Skype name is different its my real name and it has a pic of tom from toonami in it just so you know dycaite
Thanks to everyone who expressed interest in volunteering with the new site As I have now got my admin rights back at lostmedia.wikia.com, I'm not in such a mad rush to get the new site up and running (which is relieving because I would much rather take my time with it and make it as good as possible, rather than being forced to rush out a less-than-perfect site). As such, I think the amount of volunteers we currently have is plenty (though I will also soon register ubis122, nickmad55, aeonicbutterfly and The Negotiator; after that, I think we'll have more than enough people for the time being).
Thanks to everyone who expressed interest in volunteering with the new site As I have now got my admin rights back at lostmedia.wikia.com, I'm not in such a mad rush to get the new site up and running (which is relieving because I would much rather take my time with it and make it as good as possible, rather than being forced to rush out a less-than-perfect site). As such, I think the amount of volunteers we currently have is plenty (though I will also soon register ubis122, nickmad55, aeonicbutterfly and The Negotiator; after that, I think we'll have more than enough people for the time being).
Thanks. Could you do mean with Caps and a space between the words, though?
I'll transfer my articles over, ad I have a few I have been wanting to write, but have been waiting for the switch. I can't find the new page button on the new site though.