Help talk:Contents

Hey, IB, I think there's a glitch somewhere. Right now, the new button to create a page leads to a page to edit the Main Page. --Yiding (talk) 22:56, 14 October 2013 (PDT)

Checking...

added a "default name" to the input box that ties to the input button. Hope that helps. Definitely good that it doesn't take people to the main page now.--Infobroker (talk) 07:30, 15 October 2013 (PDT)

There is a tremendous potential for this instant button to cause confusion, especially for new users. I will probably be moving it from the Help page to the major categories pages. Also will see want can be done to program more failsafes. this is "More to do work" items. I will also be leaning towards some form of "to do list tracking mechanism" for template changes, site mechanics. Still "more work to do items." For right now, I really have to focus on the work that pay the bills. --Infobroker (talk) 10:53, 15 October 2013 (PDT)

Retire this information - using standard wiki deprecation techniques which I will do ...

Become a Digital Archeologist For Herocopia

One of the most precious aspects of the Herocopia Project has been the accumulation of a warehouse of information about the Characters of Astro City. Unfortunately, Herocopia.com underwent a crash that left a lot of interesting data for and about Astro City hanging in the limbos of the massively complex cavities of the internet. We are working diligently to restore as much of this previous information as possible. While the majority of it has been recovered in one form or another, there is still some old pages to recover.

We have been searching the web for old saved Herocopia pages, along with checking local hard-drives of veteran contributors. We have discovered that the Wayback Machine located at www.archive.org is a fairly good source and can be mined for herocopia.com content from the past. The only problem, it requires a lot of hand editing to bring it back to a format suitable for mediawiki development and deployment.

First steps are simple, just a bit tedious.

Use the Wayback Machine site to find old Herocopia webpages. See links section below.
Be sure to check the Wayback timeline to find the best capture of data from the original Herocopia site. Dates from 2009 are proving the most fruitful, but it can vary dramatically from page to page.
Copy the text (not the page source) to your computer's clipboard.
Head back here to the new Herocopia site and dump the text to that character's page. Create a new page if needed.
Add a "{{{cutPaste}}}" template at the top, to indicate this is a cut-n-paste entry that still needs editing, and if appropriate, a "{{{stub}}}" template at the bottom to signal that this page needs more authorship work.
Later on, you or a fellow Herocopia author can incorporate the old raw information into the new template structures that we use now. More information on that coming right up, after we take a Links-break.