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Extremely important information about our upcoming forum migration - 2
- Thread starter Antvasima
- Start date
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Out of curiosity, what will happens to sandbox profiles? Out of caution I backed mine up, but I'm sure there may be others.
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Is it confirmed that we will be backing up the forums a second time? If so can some of the concluded versus threads in this period be added to profiles?
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I'm probably not reading this right but out of curious thought, basically everything from before April 15th is saved right? Meaning anything beyond that point is not saved and won't be exported to the new forum?
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Yes, but we might back-up again.
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Ah.
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So do we have an ETA on when it will be completed?
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It's probably safe to assume that the move time could have doubled due to a need for a second back-up, so the forum move could potentially reach halfway into May, so assume you won't be able to make major revisions until then, that way it'll be a pleasant surprise if the move happens earlier
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I have an important update:
Fandom has sent the missing information for the 3 forum backups to Community Hired (the company that is setting up our new forum), so they should hopefully be able to use that to fix the previous conversion.
However, this would mean that no discussions after April 14 will be saved to the new forum after all.
As such, if there have been important discussions here afterwards, it is probably good to save them via our wiki page export function, so we can retrieve relevant information afterwards:
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Export
Also, I have received a list of the VS Battles wiki members with over 100 edits who do not have a confirmed email address. I will contact them soon about setting one up if they haven't deactivated their accounts.
Fandom has sent the missing information for the 3 forum backups to Community Hired (the company that is setting up our new forum), so they should hopefully be able to use that to fix the previous conversion.
However, this would mean that no discussions after April 14 will be saved to the new forum after all.
As such, if there have been important discussions here afterwards, it is probably good to save them via our wiki page export function, so we can retrieve relevant information afterwards:
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Export
Also, I have received a list of the VS Battles wiki members with over 100 edits who do not have a confirmed email address. I will contact them soon about setting one up if they haven't deactivated their accounts.
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- Thread starter
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Hmm. The export function did not seem to work properly when I tried to use it. I suppose that you will have to save the pages in html format via the regular browser save function instead.
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Didn't work for me either, when I tried it myself in my outlier wiki it just said "no pages to import" (although my wiki does not have a forum).
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Exporting via regular browsers seems fine (albeit a little weird-looking), but how are we supposed to upload pdf files to the wiki?
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We cannot upload pages saved this way to the new forum as regular discussions, but we can at least link to the information as external files, so other members can read through any important conclusions that we made afterwards, so we do not entirely have to start all over again.
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It's not allowed to do so?
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Well probably delete it then if Fandom might take notice.
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I mean does archiving websites on the Wayback Machine like we usually do work? I'll try that.
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Yes. Thank you for helping out.
A test version of the new forum has now been installed, and the errors that I mentioned previously thankfully seem to have been dealt with.
I have reported a few new errors to Community Hired via email though. The VS Battles forum files seem to have been converted perfectly, or at least I don't notice any errors, but the Joke Battles and FCOC sections have several threads with completely random posts in them, and the redirect links don't seem to have been fully activated yet.
A test version of the new forum has now been installed, and the errors that I mentioned previously thankfully seem to have been dealt with.
I have reported a few new errors to Community Hired via email though. The VS Battles forum files seem to have been converted perfectly, or at least I don't notice any errors, but the Joke Battles and FCOC sections have several threads with completely random posts in them, and the redirect links don't seem to have been fully activated yet.
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Wow. I've never seen a red name before.
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A legendary wiki manager? Interesting.
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