The RBI Baseball Database

[Gantry]

I have added the SpamBlacklist extension to the RBIdb.  Everytime you try to save a page, it checks a master list of websites that are known for being listed in wiki spam.  If the page you are trying to save links to a website on that list, it blocks the save and gives you an error.  This will hopefully elminiate 95% of the spam edits on the site.  Let me know if you have any trouble with it...

[Gantry]

I've added all the Cities of Birth to the RBI Birthdays page.  All the Mets were missing, so along the way I edited the players pages if they were missing Baseball Reference links or small bios.  Nothing too glamorous, but the Birthdays page is complete and some pages went from zero info to a smidge of info..

[Gantry]

A Call To Arms

I'm ready to get the RBI Database back online and it this point it's probably best to start from scratch.  There was so much spam that it's pretty much worthless to migrate the data over from the old server to ward.  The size of the RBI Database (despite having maybe a couple hundred pages) is actually 20% larger than the forums and its 500,000+ posts!  That's because spammers were changing the pages hundreds of times a day and the history went out of whack.  

I moved my work wiki and my punkdatabase.com wiki to ward, so I have the steps down.  Here is what I'm envisioning:

1)  Done! Setup a new wiki on ward for the RBI Database, with the newest version of MediaWiki - http://wiki.dee-nee.com
2)  Done! Keep the old wiki  in it's current spot - http://dee-nee.com/wiki
3)  Manually copy every page over by hand
4)  Manually copy over every Image over by hand (this is the big PITA)

So what I'm looking for is some folks that are willing to join me in this project.  It's simply a lot of gruntwork, steps would go like this:

1)  Open up a page on the old wiki
2)  Click "Edit" to get the raw wiki source, or find the newest non-spam version in the history
3)  Select All -> Copy
4)  Create the same page on the new DB
5)  Paste

Rinse and repeat for every page on the wiki.  If we got enough people we'd probably divvy up the pages by letter or something.  

What we'd lose by doing it this way - all accounts and version history.  That's a bummer but it's better than no site at all or migrating over thousands of spam edits.  

I'd get into more detail about how to pull this off, but all I want to know now is who'd be in to help.  The more people we have, the less work there is to do.  If we get enough people to chip in 15-45 minutes of time, this can be done in no time.  

Who is with me?  

[nomaaa]

if someone sent me a package with a half of weed, i could get it completely done in a week.

[nomaaa]

if that doesn't bode well, i can just pitch in, too.

[Gantry]

Good to hear, going to wait a few days and see who can help out - from there will divide up the tasks:

New wiki is up! 

http://wiki.dee-nee.com/

I just did a few of the pages and images and templates so far - everything on the front page and that's about it.   So many images, Shitpaw did a fuckton of work getting these up. 

List of all articles
List of all images - 1600+ of them

[nomaaa]

i think i'll work on this page first:

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8

[BDawk]

The second phrase in my wiki is "accidentally exposing breast in public".  Can we keep that one in mine?

[Gantry]

It's only right...

[Nacho]

i think i'll work on this page first:

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8

I thought for sure you'd check this one out first.

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B7

[Flood]

i think i'll work on this page first:

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8

I thought for sure you'd check this one out first.

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B7

I was foiled by a fkn lemonparty link...jesus christ.

[TβG]

me too.  first time in a long time.

[JerryD]

I'm game to help.

[Gantry]

We got two people, keep em coming.  The images are going to take forever, but I don't see an easier way of doing it.  The were pretty drastic database changes between the old & new versions of the wiki software so just dumping that on table won't do the job. 

Gonna be brutal, I think I'll just do 10 images every time I sidle up to the computer.  That way I'll be done by 2011

[BDawk]

I think the best way to start is by creating a lot of pages and let them be altered a little at a time

[Gantry]

Not following, sorry.  If you create a page on the new wiki, you can copy/paste all the info from the old wiki into it.  It's just a matter of divvying up the pages so ones person can do all "A" pages - and so on.

[Gantry]

All the pictures with letter "A" are done. 

Shitpaw didn't get nearly enough credit for all the work he did on the RBIdb, he must have put 10+ hours into it

[Gantry]

I just copied over nearly 50 pictures of Marty Barrett, Shitpaw was a fkn machine...

[Gantry]

My favorite pic so far:

[Nacho]

i think i'll work on this page first:

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8

I thought for sure you'd check this one out first.

http://dee-nee.com/wiki/index.php/%E7%BF%BB%E8%AF%91%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B7

I was foiled by a fkn lemonparty link...jesus christ.

Le|v|0N3D!!!!