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Old Slashgeo Stories Archive Now Back Online
Mon, 2010/09/27 - 12:30 — Satri
Good news! The 4,714 old Slashgeo stories published during our first 5 years of existence have been migrated and are now accessible on Slashgeo again. There are however a few limitations:
- The previous user comments have not been migrated.
- All old URLs are broken.
These two items could eventually be fixed but would require resources we don't have at the moment. Also:
- The imported stories don't have 'tags' associated to them. This means the main way to find them is by doing a search, not by following links to tag pages.
Mon, 2010/09/27 - 15:33 — Satri
Info on original editors was not taken into account...
Oh yeah, forgot to say, the info about the original editors of stories have been lost. I could try to reconstruct this for the new database if deemed pertinent...
For practical purposes during the migration, all 'old' stories have been attributed to... me! I hope this doesn't bother our other editors! :-)
Wed, 2010/09/29 - 07:28 — sfk
Re: Old Slashgeo Stories Archive Now Back Online
Was a bit concered about the stories being unavailble on your migration, and being a 'silent' reader of your site since 2005, I tried a little experiment and managed to download and archive the stories from google reader's archive. Have the original author's, the like count and the stories themselves with links preserved in a sqllite datastore so if you think thats of any use to you, I could email that.
Wed, 2010/09/29 - 08:04 — Satri
Re: Old Slashgeo Stories Archive Now Back Online
Hi sfk - that's really nice of you! I'm happy to learn the archives were worthy enough to deserve such attention from you :-)
Thanks for your offer, but rest reassured, we do have the whole 'old' database, with editor info, user comments that were not migrated, etc. but what's missing is the time (and somewhat the expertise :-) to entirely finalize the migration. For example, the old stories were accessible via 4 or 5 different URL paths, and the info to reconstruct these paths is spreading over multiple database tables. It certainly can be done, but with the little time we have (don't forgot, we're all volunteers with real full-time jobs!)., I postponed this for the unknown future.
However, please directly contact me sfk (use this form), I'm ready to look at the URLs you gathered and see if I can easily create URL redirects for them. Your collection of URLs could effectively really help us fix those broken links! Thanks sfk -
Re: Old Slashgeo Stories Archive Now Back Online
Nice work, just tried the search and it works pretty good.