Possible import of some EAv2 threads

[Neutrum260725]

After the announcement of EA2's end, I tried to copy as many archived threads as possible and save them to a NAS, but unfortunately not all of them. If there's interest, I can try to upload as many threads as possible.

[WheelyFixed]

After the announcement of EA2's end, I tried to copy as many archived threads as possible and save them to a NAS, but unfortunately not all of them. If there's interest, I can try to upload as many threads as possible.

I think that it would be great, but I want to talk with some of the other board folks to see how they'd like to handle them... My initial thought would be that rather than trying to shoehorn the area layout of EAv2 into our slightly different layout, it might be better to create a separate area as read-only archive. I also don't know how well they will survive the copy and re-import process in terms of keeping quotes and such intact, so it may take a few tries to figure out how best to import them...

I will definitely try to get back to you as soon as I can.

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[WheelyFixed]

OK, an update, I just had a brief chat w/ Fusion, and what I think will be possible is to create a separate, limited access 'playground' area where we can experiment with importing the threads until we have found a method that works well, and decide if we want to have it be 'read only' or allow new posts to the imported threads, etc.

I'm not sure what will be involved in trying to get the content imported. I have a dump of the old site that was taken shortly before the end, and poking at it with a text editor I wasn't able to get very good results, as it didn't properly preserve quotes and other formatting. Because of this I suspect we may need to create some sort of 'translator' program to convert from the EAv2 format to our current phpBBS format....

So the plan is to create a separate limited access area to experiment in with access limited to those working on this project...

So this is a CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS that would be willing to help out on this project - we will need people with some level of experience w/ programming or scripting (skills I do not have) and who are willing to put in some effort get this done...

Post here if interested,

I will also post progress reports in this thread as we make our way through it.

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[fhunter]

I strongly suspect that would be a semi-manual process. This is the dump that I made, right?