The RBI Baseball Database

[Gantry]

E & F images done

[fightonusc]

T is done. I'll tackle U next.

[nomaaa]

is that a joke?

[MRRBI]

Is there a new link to the rbi wiki pages?

[Gantry]

I still have the db itself, but completely riddled with spam.  If people are willing to contribute, we'd have to bring it along as invite-only, go page by page and find the non-spam version, reupload all the images (I may be able to automate this) and start fresh.

Basically it means starting a new DB and manually copy-pasting all the data from the old db in there.  Given how many spam edits were made on the old wiki (literally thousands if i had to guess) there's no way to salvage it in any worthwhile way. 

It's a big undertaking, probably would take more than Shitpaw to get the ship righted.  If people are willing to try (even in small doses, maybe each member taking a team and all their players) then I'm willing to bring it back. 

[Turd]

I can't even remember what kind of info it entailed...enlighten me? I think it died shortly before I got here...

[Gantry]

Same software as mediawiki - had entries for just about all the teams, players and lots of awesome custom pages that ShitPaw made.  It turned into quite a resource...

[MRRBI]

It's a big undertaking, probably would take more than Shitpaw to get the ship righted.  If people are willing to try (even in small doses, maybe each member taking a team and all their players) then I'm willing to bring it back.

If this comes back I'll put in some effort to getting it awesome.

[Gantry]

I still have the db itself, but completely riddled with spam.  If people are willing to contribute, we'd have to bring it along as invite-only, go page by page and find the non-spam version, reupload all the images (I may be able to automate this) and start fresh.

Basically it means starting a new DB and manually copy-pasting all the data from the old db in there.  Given how many spam edits were made on the old wiki (literally thousands if i had to guess) there's no way to salvage it in any worthwhile way. 

It's a big undertaking, probably would take more than Shitpaw to get the ship righted.  If people are willing to try (even in small doses, maybe each member taking a team and all their players) then I'm willing to bring it back. 

Now that the fantasy season is over, going to bring this back up. 

If I can get at least 2-3 more people to commit to doing this, we can bring back the DB.  Like I said, it's mostly going to the old wiki, finding the last non-spam version, copy pasting to the same page on the new version and repeat.   Will have to re-upload all the images too which will be a royal PITA but if we can get a solid few contributors with other members taking one team (maybe 30 minutes of work) then we can bring back this resource.  Who is in?

[Gantry]

Fuck it, I'm making this happen.  Going to get the initial wiki up and running today (with no content) then get the old server up tomorrow to start he manual transfer processs. 

[Gantry]

OK the base site is up:

http://wiki.dee-nee.com

It's locked down to registered users only and there's a security question when you try to sign up.  Anyone interested and try to create and account, lets make sure you get an email confirmation and there's a question in there.  DO NOT try to edit anything, I'll bring up the old site tomorrow and write up an explanation on what to do. 

[Turd]

I'm in...

[BeefMaster]

I'll throw my hat into the ring as well.

[Gantry]

Sweet!  Can someone try to create an account and make sure it all goes smoothly?  You should get a very easy question about the wiki's contents and a confirmation email. 

[MRRBI]

I'll be away from June 1st-June 16th, but I would like to work on New York Mets page when I get back if that is okay.

[Gantry]

Great, I got the old wiki up:

http://oldwiki.dee-nee.com

It's a fkn mess, here's the general steps to copy/paste items from the old to the new:

1)  Make sure you are logged into the new site http://wiki.dee-nee.com
2)  On oldwiki.dee-nee.com - go to the page you want - easier said than done
3)  Click History
4)  Click the date of the earliest version you can find that doesn't look like spam.
5)  Click the "edit" button
6)  Copy and paste all the wiki stuff to the corresponding page on the new version
7)  After copying to the new site, click save to put the latest non-spam version on the the old version

You do #7 because this gets the old wiki with a non-spam page so you can click on links and repeat the process with a new page.   If there are any images on the page, you have to click on them, download them to your local computer, then re-upload with the same name (which should be the default).

Let me know if this makes any sense, as this is going to be fucking mess.  I've only done the main page and teams page so far. 

[Gantry]

OK got the logo up, good thing to remember so you don't get screwed up where you are:

The old wiki is titled RBIdb on the tab

The new wiki is titled The RBI Baseball Database

[Gantry]

OK got the cali team up and if people are doing other teams you have to take the bgcolor="888888" out of all the tables as they are too dark. 

Also got the NES teams template. 

You know, there may not be as many pages as I thought, though it's hard to tell since the spammers created hundreds of dummy pages.  Maybe there's a way to look at "oldest created pages" - if we can do that we can go one-by-one. 

[Gantry]

Done for now, as to no surprise I'm getting no work done. 

[Turd]

Oh, BTW, by "I'm in" I meant I created an account and it worked...that wasn't clear before.