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Old 12th July 2009, 05:15 PM   #21
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Re: Old f4g posts for UO guilds on europa

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Will you still make a UO Europa forum here also as suggested earlier ?
[ just in case it goes *poof* again ]
Which suggestion was that? I can't see any reference to a Europa forum? heh
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Old 12th July 2009, 07:28 PM   #22
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Which suggestion was that? I can't see any reference to a Europa forum? heh

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Heh wow, that's awesome.
Wonder if it'd be possible to import it into a forum.
well ok a 'forum' then.Just assumed it would have an indication that it was Europa shard
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Ohhh, heh
The problems I forsee however is that there's probably going to be duplicate content, I'm not exactly sure how the data was scraped and/or if a time/date period was set when scraping
So ideally it'll need to be imported into a blank/new forum seperate from UOF or F4G, to see what the data looks like, then go from there.
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Ohhh, heh
The problems I forsee however is that there's probably going to be duplicate content, I'm not exactly sure how the data was scraped and/or if a time/date period was set when scraping
So ideally it'll need to be imported into a blank/new forum seperate from UOF or F4G, to see what the data looks like, then go from there.
Ah right I understand
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Moturdn will be made up to get it all back I am sure
Won't take much at all

Many thanks to Murad for compiling the cache data, and Adam for setting about restoring it.

If there's any help I can provide, please let me know
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Ohhh, heh
The problems I forsee however is that there's probably going to be duplicate content, I'm not exactly sure how the data was scraped and/or if a time/date period was set when scraping
I started to scrap the google cache about 36 hours after the f4g forums were declared as lost.... At that time the f4g forums weren't refreshed in google cache since the site was flagged as 'down'. By the time I've finished scraping the data, only first posts were starting to appear on f4g and being pulled into the google cache. The duplicate content should be minimal (less than 0.2 %)

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*looks excited*
Sooooo? any news on this one?

I gonna cry if i can read the old KMK Forums )
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Re: Old f4g posts for UO guilds on europa

I doubt it'll be as straight forward as that Frost, heh

Update I had today was

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Actually I have. The "rescue" code is more than 600 lines long now. I haven't been able to carve off any one big chunk of time to work on this but have been plugging away a little bit each day since; what I discovered is that the Google cache data is not all that consistent; there are plenty of dupes; some data has very little metadata in it to rebuild, etc. There still are 28000 pages and of course many more posts within those pages which I can recover complete with the original forum, thread and linkage info. Formatted as vbCode so the posts can be shoved back into a new forum, I wrote a little HTML to vbCode parser to do it that.

Left to do - sort out an issue with the members being parsed - for some reason I'm not finding very many valid members meaning a name and a member ID - that's sort of critical to rebuilding the complete post history. If nothing else I can insert an "apparently written by" text line for those posts, but I hope to do better.

Whatever the outcome I'd like to wrap this up today (meaning very late tonight my time - Pacific TZ) the code will produce sql insert statements for posts, forums, threads and members. Some assembly will be required. I'd recommend that an empty forum be created; these "rescue" records be added as new tables within the empty forum database, and then some selective sql updates be done to copy data from the rescue tables to the actual forum tables. That way I don't have to make the data look exactly like vB or whatever forum you choose.

So hang tight just a little longer.
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There still are 28000 pages and of course many more posts within those pages which I can recover complete with the original forum, thread and linkage info
I hope he means that he has still 28k pages to do. If he means that only 28k pages are parsable then the data is in much worse shape than I hoped.
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