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Offline Slezar de Fanel

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Retrieving information for the wiki
« on: May 14, 2010, 02:25:11 »
Well, i have registered to this site just yesterday and took a look at the info for modding available in general. Uhm, i was rather dissappointed about the results. There is not much info available anymore..... So i took a look and found the following.

http://web.archive.org

i used it in the past, when some boards got closed because of issues between modders and developers and i wanted to get that information from the board, even it was shut down. So i entered the old nexus site. And Wow, it is still on the web. So we got all the info of 4 or 5 years modding still there. The bad thing..... its a mess, 20000 pages to look threw, many multiple entries and so on. First i attempted to try and print them to pdfs.... well, after 5 hours iam at entry 1000....... so check out this one

A small taste

so what i thought of is, trying to get the links for modification forum index page 1-end and then look threw it for useful posts and find this links to. Man, i guess u gonna tip ur finger against ur head, but it would be alot easier to have 20 people look threw it then 1  ;(
So what are u guys thinking?

of course, most of the links are broken, but they are there, waiting.... for me... i mean us  ^^

Edit:
ok, some info i found, by far not all of it, but i reached 10000, the other half i do tommorow...maybe....

 secrets of the tactictypes.ini
someone working on the msh file format
some links to turorials (of coz archived too)


Edit2:
uhhh, well, the info i just posted i found somewhere else too..... ehhh, i guess no need to do that tidy work anyway. uhhh man, now iam sad  ;( . Too bad u guys are spread among several boards :(

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Re: Retrieving information for the wiki
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2011, 20:34:47 »
I was trying to look into the old archives, and it looks like it has all disappeared.

The site is there and all, the threads even, but no actual posts...


Did you manage to save ANY of it?!
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