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Recovering old WW threads - samnabi - 08-28-2014 I've been trying to recover as much of WonderfulWaterloo.com as I can over the past few days, and I've set up a central repository on Github so we can organise all the scraped content and eventually import it to WRC. Check it out, and let me know if you have any other ideas about how to recover that data. The more the merrier! https://github.com/samnabi/wonderful-waterloo-recovery Here's a section of the README: Quote:How can I help? Re: Recovering old WW threads - rangersfan - 09-24-2014 Has there been much success in trying to recovery any of the old data from WW? RE: Recovering old WW threads - samnabi - 10-22-2014 Not a whole lot. Still working behind the scenes to get more data, but I think I've got all the low-hanging fruit already. I'm hoping to get it archived properly with some help from UW. RE: Recovering old WW threads - samnabi - 01-11-2015 I've updated the GitHub page with more ways that people can help recover data from WW. Please do check it out if you can lend a hand. So far, 5955 individual posts across 126 threads have been recovered from the forums, along with 471 images. The posts can be accessed as a big JSON file here: https://github.com/samnabi/wonderful-waterloo-recovery/blob/master/json/threads_1421023453.json The images can be accessed here: https://github.com/samnabi/wonderful-waterloo-recovery/tree/master/raw_data/subset_images Still looking for support from the universities to archive these properly. RE: Recovering old WW threads - Spokes - 01-13-2015 Thanks so much for all of your hard work in recovering these. While we might not ever have them integrated on WRC, at least they're not totally lost. RE: Recovering old WW threads - samnabi - 10-04-2018 Sorry to revive an old thread, but there's a browseable version of those old posts here: https://wonderfulwaterloo.samnabi.com/ RE: Recovering old WW threads - Spokes - 10-04-2018 Thanks for putting this together. From a personal perspective, definitely mixed feelings looking back at all that. From being there from the very start to my exodus (sadly I found the thread that eventually led to it) to the downfall of it all. Bittersweet for sure. Sad that such a valuable resource was lost, but thrilled that what's turned out to be a more successful version in WRConnected was born out of it. |