Re: Help requested with Piecepack Wiki cleanup effort

["littlebrothertimmy" <littlebrothertimmy@...>]

Let me be the first one to thank everyone who has revitalised the wiki. It's really great that things are working again! I can only imagine all the (spare)time you've spent restoring all the pages. Work like this should not be taken for granted!!!

Once again: THANK YOU!

Roger

--- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:
>
> If the ToyVault piecepack is going to be as big a deal for the
> piecepack community as I predict it is, both Piecepack.org and the
> Piecepack Wiki are going to receive a sudden influx of new visitors
> relatively soon.
>
> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/474608/want-to-get-published-design-a-piecepack-game-for
>
> I can't do anything about the way-out-of-date status of Piecepack.org,
> but I do maintain the Piecepack Wiki, and I'd like to enlist your help
> to clean it up.
>
> http://ludism.org/ppwiki
>
> As you may know, Ludism.org, the server for the Piecepack Wiki,
> suffered a hardware failure in May 2009, and it took a few weeks to
> restore the Piecepack Wiki and various other services. All of the
> information from the wiki was preserved, but it's now running on
> different wiki software called OddMuse (the old software was
> MoinMoin). This means that there are various small glitches because of
> differences in the software's markup language. In particular, there
> are many broken links.
>
> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/409478/ppwiki-rest-in-piece
>
> I would have to say that the other big problem is that the many custom
> scripts written by Mark Biggar and friends, such as the ones that scan
> the wiki and automatically list games by number of players and so on,
> are also broken with the switch to the new software. It's possible to
> write new scripts or rewrite the old ones (although I have neither the
> time nor the expertise at the moment), but if no one can do that right
> now, it would still be nice to clean up all the broken links and
> broken tables left over from the scripts.
>
> Even bearing in mind that I "run" it (inasmuch as anyone ever runs a
> wiki, which is not much), I still think the Piecepack Wiki is the best
> place to find information about the piecepack right now, considering
> Piecepack.org hasn't been touched in many years -- the front page
> still reads "Page content last modified on: 10/19/2004", although I do
> think it's been updated a little since then.
>
> If you agree, would you please help me clean it up? Don't be afraid.
> Dig in. I have backups, if anyone gets into trouble. At least clean up
> the pages about you and your own games! If everyone did that, we'd be
> a long way toward making the wiki something to be proud of again when
> all those new players suddenly get interested in our hobby.
>
> Comments, anyone?
> 
> piecefully,
>
> Ron
>
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