Chess Programming Wiki

[Ed Trice]

1. The US Patent for Gothic Chess was sold for $250,000 to the International team who took a 50% share in the international profits once the International Patent was awarded. Why all the citation claiming "unpaid maintenance fees?" Not even close to the reason. The International Patent overshadows the US Patent in all cases.

2. Under the "References" section, remove items 3, 4, 6, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20. They have nothing to do with programming or any software I have written.

3. Under "Forum Posts" from 2005, NONE of that belongs. Remove all of it.

[Gerd Isenberg]

1. The US Patent for Gothic Chess was sold for $250,000 to the International team who took a 50% share in the international profits once the International Patent was awarded. Why all the citation claiming "unpaid maintenance fees?" Not even close to the reason. The International Patent overshadows the US Patent in all cases.

2. Under the "References" section, remove items 3, 4, 6, 16, 17, 18, 19, and 20. They have nothing to do with programming or any software I have written.

3. Under "Forum Posts" from 2005, NONE of that belongs. Remove all of it.

Done ...
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Ed+Trice

[Ed Trice]

Very much appreciated. Thank you.

[smatovic]

Maybe we can convince archive.org to make an full backup before the shut down?

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Srdja

[Ovyron]

Maybe we can convince archive.org to make an full backup before the shut down?

They rely on volunteers, anybody can go and do that manually. At least, in theory, it seems Wikispaces has an odd format that makes archive.org struggle.

[Jesse Gersenson]

We have wikitext backups, and some months time to look for another host.

How about digitalocean.com? They're $5/mo. and you get 25gb of ssd disk space, a full linux shell enviornment where you can install whatever you want.

I would like to see the 'wikitext backup' for this page:
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com ... r+Olympiad

Looks like there are about 4500 'pages and files', 1700 members, 800 tags and likely a bunch of photos.

I have never migrated a wiki but have migrated lots and lots of sites. I'd guess this site could be moved to a basic hosting site, wikipedia installed, and the data imported without too much trouble. Possible process would be to import using the wikitexts backup you have, then augment this with a script to fill in whatever wasn't included in the backup file.

Recreating members may be a problem. Keeping underlying data needed for 'recent changes' and 'date edited' is a problem.

[Gerd Isenberg]

We have wikitext backups, and some months time to look for another host.

How about digitalocean.com? They're $5/mo. and you get 25gb of ssd disk space, a full linux shell enviornment where you can install whatever you want.

I would like to see the 'wikitext backup' for this page:
https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com ... r+Olympiad

Looks like there are about 4500 'pages and files', 1700 members, 800 tags and likely a bunch of photos.

I have never migrated a wiki but have migrated lots and lots of sites. I'd guess this site could be moved to a basic hosting site, wikipedia installed, and the data imported without too much trouble. Possible process would be to import using the wikitexts backup you have, then augment this with a script to fill in whatever wasn't included in the backup file.

Recreating members may be a problem. Keeping underlying data needed for 'recent changes' and 'date edited' is a problem.

Thank you for your interest and proposal - that sounds interesting. Current plans are to convert it to MediaWiki - despite bugs and problems by wikispaces to convert its native wikitext to other formats, we managed to get a ~140 MB MediaWiki.zip, but so far no way to preserve the complete history for CC BY-SA conformance.

The 'wikitext backup' by pm.

[ilhooq]

Current plans are to convert it to MediaWiki - despite bugs and problems by wikispaces to convert its native wikitext to other formats, we managed to get a ~140 MB MediaWiki.zip, but so far no way to preserve the complete history for CC BY-SA conformance.

Since many years, the CPW is for me a treasure of knowledges and I decided to write a script to properly import pages, users, files and history from WikiSpaces to MediaWiki.

The script uses Wikispaces SOAP API to import pages content and history and WebDAV to import files.

The script can be downloaded here :

https://gist.github.com/ilhooq/65c1e249 ... e8647f2691

I hope it will be useful for your migration.

[ilhooq]

Anyone know of an easy method to download an entire wiki for preservation?

I made an offline version of the wiki (~160MB) using Wikispaces SOAP API to get pages content and WebDAV to import files and then PHP to build pages layout.
Once extracted, you'll find a scripts folder containing tools to maintain up to date pages and files until the Wikispaces closure.

[cdani]

Thanks!!