Editing MediaWiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central

'''What happened'''<br />
TFWiki.net's database was [[Transformers Wiki:Bookworm Crash|accidentally deleted in an attempt to upgrade the wiki-software]].  And due to a different software failure, the only existing backup was from June 2008.  So one day we all logged in and saw that every article was nine months out of date.  Our response was to raid [http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:tfwiki.net/wiki/ Google's cache] for more recent versions.  The vast majority of articles have now been restored from there, but the Google-caching process has been an imperfect solution:  Many articles are now up-to-date but badly-formatted, with garbled lines of code in plain view.

'''What needs to be done'''<br />
The ugliness needs to be fixed, and some articles still need to be restored from Google's cache.  Some of the work can be automated, but much will have to be done by hand.  See the "[[#Restoration|Restoration]]" section below for resources and advice.

'''Information outside of the wiki'''<br />
Immediately after the crash, discussion sprung up on these Allspark threads, and they have been a continuing source of information (especially as the wiki has been experiencing a lot of downtime lately):
* [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=56439 "TFWiki Problems, Any idea what's going on?"]
* [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=51208&st=400&p=1155749&#entry1155749 "Major Wiki Work, A thread for additions to Transformers wikis."]

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==Restoration==
Basically, if you see an article that looks messed-up, feel free to fix it.
===Useful Resources===
====Files====
If an article is still in its June 2008 state, there is probably a newer version that it should be restored to.  Here are places to look:
* [http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:tfwiki.net/wiki/ The Google cache.]  Add the name of the page you're looking for to the URL.  (Don't click on the links in these pages; those will send you back here.)
As time goes on, the Google cache becomes less relevant because it overwrites itself with the current state of the articles.  So several editors downloaded swaths of articles from the cache immediately after the crash:
* Suki Brits's unprocessed cache files: [http://www.scoutshonour.com/files/tfwikicache.tar.gz compressed archive] or [http://www.scoutshonour.com/tfwikicache/ individual downloads]
* G1MarvelBlaster's unprocessed cache files: [http://www.aldenbates.com/g1marvelblaster.zip compressed archive] or [http://www.fileqube.com/shfolder/180305DXXRbmdM individual downloads] (many articles beginning with "O" and "P" that are missing from Suki's cache)
* Lonegamer's unprocessed cache files: [http://miscfile.alienharmony.com/transformers/lonegamers-cache.zip compressed archive] (lots of articles about Japanese stuff)
* Lonegamer's unprocessed cache files part 2: [http://miscfile.alienharmony.com/transformers/lonegamers-cache-2.rar compressed archive] (lots more articles about Japanese stuff)
All of those files were converted by Google from wikicode to HTML.  Since the wiki software doesn't understand most HTML, we have used some programs to try to convert the files back.  Here are the results:
* Processed pages: [http://tfwiki.net/finished.zip compressed archive]
And here's a program to open all of these archives:
* [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-Zip]

====HTML-to-wikicode processors====
Here are the programs we've been using to convert the files back to wiki-format:
* [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text2.php Derik's online HTML-to-wikicode processor, v2.5] (recommended)
* [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text2.php Derik's online HTML-to-wikicode processor, v3i] (only for specific tasks; see "[[#Too big to wikify?|Too big to wikifiy?]]" below)
* [http://www.aldenbates.com/htmltowiki Abates' online HTML-to-wikicode processor]
* [http://www.aldenbates.com/gallerizer Gallerizer] - converts &lt;table class="gallery"&gt;s back into &lt;gallery&gt;s

===Fixing ugly pages===
The simplest thing to do when you see a page with broken code all over it is to call it out.  Put the [[Template:Bookworm|Bookworm template]] at the top of the page, adding a severity-number and preferably a description of what's wrong.  This will put the page in [[:Category:Recovery|a category]] so everyone can see that it needs to be fixed.

If you'd like to help repair the damage, you'll find that most of the problems with HTML failing to convert back to wikicode have to do with [[:Category:Templates|templates]].  Oftentimes a dozen lines of HTML can be replaced with a single "<nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>" or "<nowiki>{{picsneeded}}</nowiki>".  Some templates are more complicated, however.  Those are explained in the [[#Template Code You Might Need|next section]].

The other big problem is [[Wikipedia:Help:Footnotes|references]].  These need to be re-created by hand via putting empty <nowiki><ref></ref></nowiki> tags in the proper places in the article, then picking out the actual reference from under the Footnotes/References section and sticking them in the Ref tags, then replacing the leftover messed-up code with the <nowiki><references/></nowiki> element. You may want to check against the unprocessed cache page to make sure it's all correct.

====Template Code You Might Need====
=====Breaking Lists Into Columns=====
<pre><nowiki>{{columnlist|(number of items per column)|
(list of items)}}</nowiki></pre>

=====Comic Issues=====
Items between "coverdate" and "continuity" should be customized to match the issue's actual credits and wikilinked to the person's name.
<pre><nowiki>{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=(wikilinked comic series the issue is part of)
|prev=(previous issue)
|next=(next issue)
|seriesissue2=(wikilinked second comic series the issue is also part of, if applicable)
|prev2=(previous issue in the second series, if applicable)
|next2=(next issue in the second series, if applicable)
|title=(title of the issue, if applicable)
|image=(cover image)
|caption=(caption for the cover image)
|publisher=(wikilink to the publisher)
|date=(month, day, and year the issue was released)
|coverdate=(month and year on the issue itself)
|writer=
|penciler=
|inker=
|colorist=
|letterer=
|editor=
|continuity=(wikilink to the continuity the issue takes place in)
}}</nowiki></pre>

=====Episodes=====
Items between "production company" and "animation studio" should be customized to match the episode's actual opening credits and wikilinked to the person's name.
<pre><nowiki>{{episode|
|series=(series the episode is in (codes: g1, headmasters, masterforce, victory,
zone, g2, beast wars ii, beast wars neo, beast machines, rid, armada, energon,
cybertron, animated))
|ep=(the episode number)
|prev=(previous episode)
|next=(next episode)
|series2=(second series the episode is in, if applicable (codes: g1, headmasters,
masterforce, victory, zone, g2, beast wars ii, beast wars neo,
beast machines, rid, armada, energon, cybertron, animated))
|ep2=(the second series episode number, if applicable)
|prev2=(previous episode in the second series, if applicable)
|next2=(next episode in the second series, if applicable)
|title=(title of the episode)
|japanese=(title in Japanese for Japanese-origin episodes, if applicable)
|romaji=(romanization of Japanese title)
|translation=(translation of Japanese title)
|image=(some representative image)
|caption=(caption for the image)
|production code=(episode's production code, if known)
|production company=(wikilink to the company that produced the episode)
|writer=
|director=
|animation studio=(wikilink to the studio that animated the episode)
|airdate=(the date the episode aired)
|continuity=(wikilink to the continuity the episode takes place in)
}}</nowiki></pre>

=====Featured Characters=====
First column is "Autobots", second is "Decepticons", third is "Humans", fourth is "Others", fifth is "Misc." These headers can be changed if needed by using |h1=(new header)|c1= in place of the c1=. Code sections with no characters in them can be deleted.
<pre><nowiki>{{featuredcharacters
|c1=

|c2=

|c3=

|c4=

|c5=

}}</nowiki></pre>

====="For Further Information"=====
Used whenever an article has had some of its sections separated into separate articles.<br>
'''<tt><nowiki>{{see|(title of separated section page)}}</nowiki></tt>'''

=====Image Galleries=====
Used to format lots of images into a swanky-looking table.
<pre><nowiki><gallery>
Image:(filename)|(caption)
</gallery></nowiki></pre>

====="See Main Article"=====
Whenever an article has had some of its sections separated into separate articles, this should be placed at the top of the separate articles to link them back to the page they were split from.<br>
'''<tt><nowiki>{{main|(title of main article)}}</nowiki></tt>'''

=====Specifying How an Article Should Be Sorted in Categories=====
For instance, if the article is named "Simon Furman", but you want it sorted as "Furman, Simon" in all categories.<br>
'''<tt><nowiki>{{DEFAULTSORT:(altered title)}}</nowiki></tt>'''

=====Speedy Delete=====
Slap this on any page that can definitely be deleted. Needless to say, don't stick this on a page unless you're absolutely certain it can be deleted!<br>
'''<tt><nowiki>{{speedy|(reason for delete)}}</nowiki></tt>'''

=====Stubs=====
*General: '''<tt><nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki></tt>'''
*Character pages: '''<tt><nowiki>{{charstub}}</nowiki></tt>'''
**Character pages that need fiction: '''<tt><nowiki>{{charstubfiction}}</nowiki></tt>'''
**Character pages that need toys: '''<tt><nowiki>{{charstubtoys}}</nowiki></tt>'''
*Comic issues: '''<tt><nowiki>{{issuestub}}</nowiki></tt>'''
*Episodes: '''<tt><nowiki>{{epstub}}</nowiki></tt>'''

=====Year Page Navigation=====
Puts a nice navigation box on the top of year pages.<br>
'''<tt><nowiki>{{yearofthe|(year)}}</nowiki></tt>'''

==Google Cache Pages==
===Saved===
*Main
*Template
*Help
*Transformers Wiki
*[http://miscfile.alienharmony.com/transformers/alltalkpages.txt Talk] 0000-0499, 8600-8921

====Exceptions====
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*<s>[[Akari Hibino]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*[[All Fall Down (disambiguation)]]
*[[Charlie Bodin]]
*[[Cheyne]]
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*[[Cybertron Redux]]
*[[Deep Sea Discovery! Vector Prime]]
*[[Dirt Boss (disambiguation)]]
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*[[Esther Scott]] 
*[[Frederic Doss]] 
*[[Fushigi Yamada]] 
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*[[Hasbro Q&A March 2009 question submissions]]
*<s>[[High Beam]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 
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*[[Insecticon Attack!]] 
*[[Kazuhiko Gōdo]] 
*<s>[[Kingbolt]]</s> - 100%
*<s>[[Linkage Part 13]]</s> - 100%
*<s>[[List of computers]]</s> - 100%
*[[Lloyd Goldfine]] 
*<s>[[Matrix Quest (disambiguation)]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*[[Matrix Quest (Titan)]]
*[[May 26]] 
*[[Maya Klayn]] 
*[[Mini-Vehicle]] 
*[[Mirage (disambiguation)]] 
*[[Miroslaw Neinert]] 
*[[Nightscream (Energon)]] 
*<s>[[Nokia-bot]]</s>
*<s>[[Null ray]]</s>
*[[Odette Yustman]]
*<s>[[Optimus Primal toys]]</s>
*<s>[[Optimus Prime (Animated)]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Abates|abates]]
*[[Quick Bow]] 
*[[Robot Masters (cartoon)]] 
*<s>[[Robot Masters (pack-in comic)]]</s>
*<s>[[Scoop (G1)]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 
*[[Scoop (Shattered Glass)]] 
*[[Seven]]
*[[Showdown (disambiguation)]]
*[[Slaves of the Insecticons]] 
*[[Staff Sergeant Tracy]]
*[[Stag Swamp]]
*[[Stalker (G.I. Joe)]]
*<s>[[Studio 4˚C]]</s>
*[[Tentakil (disambiguation)]]
*<s>[[Terrorcon (disambiguation)]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*[[The Big Book of Coloring Fun]]
*[[The New Battle Begins!]]
*[[The Smashing Pumpkins]]
*<s>[[The Treacherous Attack of the Decepticons]]</s>
*<s>[[The Victory Warriors Enter!!]]</s> - 30% (stub) -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*<s>[[Thundercracker (Shattered Glass)]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*[[Tight Shot]]  
*<s>[[Tlaloc]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*<s>[[Tsutomu Kashiwakura]]</s> - 100% -[[User:Derik|Derik]]
*[[Vector]]
}}

===Not Saved===
*[http://miscfile.alienharmony.com/transformers/alltalkpages.txt Talk] 0500-8599
*Template talk
*Help talk
*Transformers Wiki talk (non-Community Portal pages)

==New Discussion==
Probably the wrong place, but I have to ask this of those that handle coding/templates: Is it possible to fix the Recent Changes page to have the "View (newer 500) (older 500)" usable again? Just a thought. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 22:18, 20 March 2009 (EDT)

So... how does this work? Is it basically if I see a garbled page I should feel free to clean it up? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 00:02, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:Pretty much. If you see something that's really bad, (like the code's all & lt; and & gt; and stuff), try downloading the zip file of unprocessed cache files, going to Abates' converter, choosing the appropriate cache file, and running it through again. That should make it a little more managable. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 00:48, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

== Lost articles ==

I ran my updated script over all of the cache files, so I could restore the ones which didn't update properly the first time.  However some of the cache files are blank.  Crossed out ones I have redundant copies of.

{{collist|2|
*<s>[[Destined Confrontation - The Children of Good and Evil]]</s>
*<s>[[Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral]]</s>
*<s>[[Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall]]</s>
*<s>[[Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future]]</s>
*<s>[[Generation_2]]</s>
*<small><s>[[Genesis: The Art of Transformers]]</s></small> 100% compliant
*<s>Heroic Legend</s>
*<s>[[Revelations Part I: Discovery]]</s>
*<s>[[Revelations Part II: Descent]]</s>
*<s>[[Revelations Part III: Apocalypse]]</s>
}}

There were a couple of others, such as the Q&A which are already on the site, and I'm not sure which of the several "Heroic Legend" articles that one file is for, but perhaps someone has a copy of the other three? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:20, 20 March 2009 (EDT)
:The big unprocessed cache zip has:
*Heroic Legend: 2010 Wars
*Heroic Legend: Head On, Master Warriors!
*Heroic Legend: Optimus Prime VS Megatron!!
:Also, considering that the "proper" Generation 2 article is a redirect, and it looks like we have all of the other main G2 articles, I don't think we need to worry about that one. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 18:50, 20 March 2009 (EDT)
::Cool! And I just grabbed a copy of Destined Confrontation out of MSN's cache, so consider this section closed! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:54, 20 March 2009 (EDT)

===I have no idea where to ask about this===
Are we able to rescue stuff from namespace pages, like sandboxes?  I had an article for Bata, maker of licensed transformer footwear, almost raedy to go before the thing.  [[User:Hooper X|Hooper_X]] 09:38, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:I was able to salvage the sandboxes that I made links to on my userpage-- because when google spidered my userpage, it saw links to them and spidered them.
:If not... -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:41, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::That's about what I figured.  Oh well.  GOODBYE, SANDBALLS.  [[User:Hooper X|Hooper_X]] 16:57, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

== Template Help ==
<strike>So the second series on "[[A Heroic Battle]]" just isn't showing up. Did I do the code wrong (although I could swear it looks right), or is the template still a little messed up?</strike>
:Never mind, I figured it out, although I should note that RiD, at least, doesn't seem to have the auto-prev and auto-next set up. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 01:43, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

Also, I'm still curious about the Wookiepedia template... should I just erase it if I come across it, for now? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 01:22, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

I see some of the spiffy new templates aren't working, like the new series of nameless characters templates (noname-nickname, etc.) and the faction icons. When I fix a page, should I restore those with the anticipation that the templates will return? - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 12:34, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:That's what I've been doing.  At least with the factions one (hopefully I got the faction names right!)  Unfortunately I wasn't that familiar with the new nameless character templates, so I've been leaving them as "noname", and I guess once the templates have been sorted out, they'll be easy to spot by looking at the pages which link to noname. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:20, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
::The big tar.gz has the "Nameless Characters" policy in it, as well as many other Help and Transformers Wiki files. I've been finding it useful for templates sometimes. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:51, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

== When a page's code is totally effed... ==

I've discovered that when a page's code is totally effed by the import script, it can usually be re-condition by running it through ''my'' page filter script.  (located [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text2.php? here])

The trick is to hit "wickify" not once, but TWICE.  The second round ''generally'' sorts out most of the effed-uppingness. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 12:38, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:I tried that with [[Student]] and nothing changed.  Are there different kinds of effed-ness?  '''Thylacine 2000'''--[[Special:Contributions/74.73.131.210|74.73.131.210]] 14:11, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
::I accuse you of doing it wrong.  It made a signifigant difference when I did it.
#Open the student page in editing mode.
#Copy the text out.
#Paste the text into the top text field of the [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text2.php? Rewiki Text Page]
#Click "Wikify"
#Click "Wikify" '''again'''
#Copy the text back out of the <u>bottom</u> text field, and put it into the student article.
#Preview

When I did this, Student went from being a total mess to something with sections, working links and a garbled skeleton that was clearly a notice box at the top of the page.  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 14:41, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

== The big sweep ==

Okay- Deceptitran has a list of ~24,000 pages the wiki either has or thinks it OUGHT to have.  (There's holes since this was compiled from imperfect lists, but it's what we've got.)

I'm getting ready to start coding a slow sweep over all the pages-- this will take several DAYS.  The ''obvious'' edit to make is the removal of all the wikia links (which google has begun to notice.)  Can anyone think of any other simple edits that should be added in that mix?  (I want to be conservative and not fuck up the code even MORE than it already is.)

I'm probably gonna run a passive (no edits, much faster) sweep first and just try to figure out what pages are missing.  -12:52, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:Big sweep is ~2% complete.  Loss rate is around 1%.  Good news-- most of the "lost" pages are false-positives.  (Crap that got onto our paster page-lists by accidents.)  ''actual'' flat-out missing pages seems closer to ~0.3%.
:(Of course, the estimate of what's missing is only as good as our original lists.  And if they were on the original lists-- then they should have gotten backed up and restored, right?)
:It's something anyway. I'll post an actual list when the sweep finishes. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 13:23, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

Excellent.  Excellent excellent.  There has just been waaaay too much screwed up stuff to take it on by hand.  This is good to hear. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 14:28, 21 March 2009 (EDT)

''Can anyone think of any other simple edits that should be added in that mix?''
:'''Perhaps''', for the sake of argument, replace <nowiki>&amp;lt; and &amp;gt; with < and ></nowiki>? I realise the result wouldn't be ideal, but it would paper over a lot of cracks in one fell swoop. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 18:47, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
::Getting the last of the Wikia links? I'm still finding 'em.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 19:31, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:::I second that both removing Wikia links and converting <nowiki>&amp;lt; and &amp;gt;</nowiki> are the two big ones. Converting over the simpler/more standard templates would also be a plus, but I'm not sure how possible that is without risking further mangling. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 22:00, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:Any line which looks like this:
:<code><nowiki><div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">'''Note:''' ''...''</div></nowiki></code>
:...can be turned into <nowiki>{{note|...}}</nowiki>.  There are a ''lot'' of these. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:50, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
::That nice-- except that's not what the Note template actually LOOKS LIKE int he page text.  Either it's puer HTML, or the HTML's been escaped or... something, because Deceptitran isn't finding any instances of it when I run tests.
::Can someone find me an example page with the screwed-up "Note" template on it (currently or just in history) so I can figure out how to code a fix? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:54, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:::[http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Megatron_%28Movie%29&diff=prev&oldid=223119 My fixes for Movie Megatron's page]

:::For instance: <tt><nowiki>&amp;lt;div style="width: 90%; margin: 0 auto .2em auto; background-color:#efefef; border: 2px solid #eeeeee; padding: 2px; text-align: left;"&amp;gt;'''Note:''' ''[[Defiance]] changes the past relationship between Megatron and Optimus Prime as previously seen in IDW's Prime Directive prequel where they ruled side by side as equals. As presented here, Defiance establishes Optimus Prime as merely the leader of the Cybertronian science sector, and an underling to Megatron.''&amp;lt;/div&amp;gt;</nowiki></tt> --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 20:42, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

===Sweep results===
<nowiki>*yawn*</nowiki>  Good nap.  227 missing pages-- some of which is junk and not actually missing, some of which is stuck on Markons, etc.  I see that ''some'' of this has been reccover while I slept, yay!
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#[[']]
#[["]]
#[[(]]
#[[Ireneusz Załóg]]
#[[Jörmungandr]]
#[[Pick-Up (Bat-Robô)]]
#[[Rio Gráfica Editora]]
#[[1]]
#[[1984_media]]
#[[2]]
#[[3]]
#[[4]]
#[[6]]
#[[9]]
#[[A]]
#[[All Fall Down (disambiguation)]]
#[[Banjō Ginga]]
#[[Binbōgami]]
#[[Būpink]]
#[[Bumble Spud|Bumblespud]]
#[[C]]
#[[Charlie Bodin]]
#[[Cheyne]]
#[[Chōkon Power]]
#[[Crown]]
#[[Cybertron (planet)/Gallery]]
#[[Cybertron Redux]]
#[[Daisuke Gōri]]
#[[Dark Designs (Titan)]]
#[[Destined Confrontation: The Children of Good and Evil]]
#[[Do Over]]
#[[Doryū]]
#[[DreamMix TV World Fighters]]
#[[Dreamwave Generation One continuity]]
#[[Drench (Shattered Glass)]]
#[[Drift (episode)]]
#[[Drill Bit (Universe)]]
#[[Dropbox]]
#[[Dropshot (Shattered Glass)]]
#[[Dublin James]]
#[[Duel in the Labyrinth]]
#[[Dungeons & Dinobots]]
#[[Durguth]]
#[[Dutch]]
#[[Dynamo]]
#[[E]]
#[[Each One Fights...]]
#[[Echo Across the Galaxy! Bell of Love!!]]
#[[Empire]]
#[[End of the Maximals!?]]
#[[End of the Road (Titan)]]
#[[The Lio Convoy Typhoon Enters|Enter, Lio Convoy Typhoon]]
#[[Esther Scott]]
#[[F]]
#[[Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Comics]]
#[[Frederic Doss]]
#[[Fushigi Yamada]]
#[[Gairyū]]
#[[Geonosis]]
#[[Glen's grandmama|Glen's grandmother]]
#[[Gōryū]]
#[[Grimlock (G1) toys]]
#[[H]]
#[[Hasbro Q & A]]
#[[Hasbro Q&A December 2008: Answers]]
#[[Hasbro Q&A December 2008: Question submission]]
#[[Hasbro Q&A March 2009: Answers]]
#[[Hasbro Q&A March 2009: Question submission]]
#[[Hitoshizuku Amaō]]
#[[Hōchū Ōtsuka]]
#[[Hoshinochō]]
#[[Hozumi Gōda]]
#[[I]]
#[[:Image:Autobots+Lets+Make+Out-1836.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Autobots+Lets+Make+Out-6341.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Autobots+Lets+Make+Out-7270.jpg]]
#[[:Image:BergerInc_Tanks&SolarPlant.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Blasterbluesop&mdance.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Coredevastator&prime.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Coremegs&wheeljack.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Dinobotislandratch&spark.jpg]]
#[[:Image:G1_-_Fastlane_&_Cloudraker_-_Boxart.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Gambitastro&crystals.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Gambitastrotrain&scream.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Gambittitans&cosmos.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Insectsyndromeprime&megs.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Jose+santacruz+menor.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Maketrackshoist&huffer.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Nergill_&_Troops.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Omegasupreme&creature.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Search4atelita&prime.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Tfalost&foundbulkheadhocky.gif]]
#[[:Image:Tud2bee&spikeembrace.jpg]]
#[[:Image:Universe_Soundwave&Space-Case_toy.jpg]]
#[[:Industrial Light & Magic]]
#[[:Insecticon Attack!]]
#[[J]]
#[[J. Falconer]]
#[[Jirō Saitō]]
#[[K]]
#[[Kakuryū]]
#[[Kazuhiko Gōdo]]
#[[Kenichirō Tanabe]]
#[[Kensō Katō]]
#[[Kenyū Horiuchi]]
#[[Kōhei Kowada]]
#[[Kōichi Tōchika]]
#[[Kōji Totani]]
#[[Kōji Yusa]]
#[[Kōki Kataoka]]
#[[Kōmoribreast]]
#[[Kōzō Shioya]]
#[[L]]
#[[Lloyd Goldfine]]
#[[M.A.R.B.]]
#[[Mantarō Iwao]]
#[[Masaharu Satō]]
#[[Masashi Endō]]
#[[Matrix Quest (Titan)]]
#[[Matrix Quest (Titan)]]
#[[May 26]]
#[[Maya Klayn]]
#[[Meltdown's Experiments]]
#[[Mini-Vehicle]]
#[[Mirosław_Neinert]]
#[[Momotarō]]
#[[Monster Maezuka]]
#[[Mujō]]
#[[Naoki Tatsuta]]
#[[Nobuyuki Saitō]]
#[[Odette Yustman]]
#[[Off-Road Cycle]]
#[[Ohio]]
#[[Omega Sentinel (disambiguation)]]
#[[Omega Terminus]]
#[[Onslaught (ROTF)]]
#[[Open Fire!]]
#[[Optimus (episode)]]
#[[Optimus Prime (Armada) toys]]
#[[Optimus Prime (Movie) toys]]
#[[Optimus Prime cookie jar]]
#[[Optimus Prime Oral Care Station]]
#[[Osamu Saka]]
#[[Overbite (Shattered Glass)]]
#[[Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado]]
#[[Overlord (rank)]]
#[[Owen Hurley]]
#[[P]]
#[[Pacific Ring of Fire]]
#[[Pack-in material]]
#[[Package art/Gallery]]
#[[Packaging]]
#[[Palace]]
#[[Panini]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 2]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 3]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 4]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 5]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 6]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 7]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 8]]
#[[Panini Armada issue 9]]
#[[Paper Magic Group]]
#[[Paradron communicator]]
#[[PARD]]
#[[Pīpō]]
#[[Press Release: Teletraan-1 Wikia moves to TFWiki.net]]
#[[Professor Gō]]
#[[Q]]
#[[Quick_Bow]]
#[[R]]
#[[Rairyū]]
#[[Ratchet's_EMP_generator]]
#[[Reverb_(Cybertron)]]
#[[Robot_Masters_(cartoon)]]
#[[Ryō Naitō]]
#[[Ryōichi Tanaka]]
#[[Ryōka Yuzuki]]
#[[Sanryō Odaka]]
#[[Save_the_Little_Girl!_The_Chōjin_Warriors,_the_Godmasters]]
#[[Scoop_(Shattered_Glass)]]
#[[Seizō Katō]]
#[[Shinichirō Miki]]
#[[Shizuku Amaō]]
#[[Shōhei Kohara]]
#[[Shōji Kawamori]]
#[[Shōki]]
#[[Showdown_(disambiguation)]]
#[[Shūta Gō]]
#[[Slaves_of_the_Insecticons]]
#[[Smith_(disambiguation)]]
#[[Staff_Sergeant_Tracy]]
#[[Street_Action_Mini-Con_Team|Street_Action_Mini-Con_Team_(Armada)]]
#[[Takurō Kitagawa]]
#[[Talk:Hot_Shot_(Unicron_Trilogy)]]
#[[Teiyū Ichiryūsai]]
#[[Teletran-1:_The_Transformers_Wiki:About]]
#[[Template-episodenav-dev]]
#[[Tesshō Genda]]
#[[The_Big_Book_of_Coloring_Fun]]
#[[The_New_Battle_Begins!]]
#[[The_Smashing_Pumpkins]]
#[[The_Treacherous_Attack_of_the_Decepticons]]
#[[Tight_Shot]]
#[[Toaster_bot]]
#[[Transformers_Mix_&_Match]]
#[[Transformers_Wiki_talk:Community_Portal/Cache_Recovery]]
#[[Transformers_Wiki:WikiaBotTests]]
#[[Transformers:_Binaltech_&_TF_Collection_Complete_Guide]]
#[[Trevor_Hutchison]]
#[[Ultra_Magnus_(Universe_Spy_Changer)]]
#[[Ultra_Magnus...to_the_Rescue?]]
#[[Units_of_time/Continuity]]
#[[User:M_Sipher/Sandbox]]
#[[Vector]]
#[[Yōichi Kobiyama]]
#[[Yōji Ietomi]]
#[[Yōko Kawanami]]
#[[Yokuryū]]
#[[Yūgo Ōgami]]
#[[Yūji Kishi]]
#[[Yūji Mikimoto]]
#[[Yūki Ōshima]]
#[[Yūsaku Yara]]
#[[Yūto Kazama]]
#[[Yukiyoshi Ōhashi]]
#[[Yumi Tōma]]
}}

:I've recovered a bunch of those from Google's cache.  Many of them are malformed because they have accents (I already went through and reuploaded as many of the accented articles as I could find).  A chunk in the middle from [[Off-Road_Cycle]] to [[PARD]] are in G1MarvelBlaster's saved cache stuff.  Mini-Vehicles is at [[Mini Vehicles]], Ultra Magnus...to the Rescue? is at [[Ultra Magnus... to the Rescue?]].  I started trying to look for the remaining legit lost articles on yahoo and MSN, but I don't have any more time to work on it tonight.  One of the message board people who saved stuff may have some of them? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:06, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

====Filtering the sweep results====
So, just from that list, once you take out (1) the links which have gone blue and (2) obvious errors of one sort or another (as well as the single-character stuff, the Teletran-1...About page was deleted '''after''' the big crash, f'rinstance. I stuck a <nowiki>{{speedy}}</nowiki> on it myself), that leaves these as actual pages which are ''completely missing'', yes? [Not swearing none of these were redirects/etc - if they were, please send them to where they're meant to go and remove them from this list, huh? I've left the disambigs, tho.]

#[[Digital Dagger]] (Unrecoverable. [[T.E.C.H.]] toy from first movie's toyline)
#[[Kazuhiko Gōdo]]

63 pages as I type... obviously, this doesn't take account of stuff which exist but was reverted, but... - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 16:42, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:There are certainly more-- this list was generated by from lists of pages from ABates and FortMax we think we're SUPPOSED to have.  (and thus pages we were trying to save the cache of.)  Literally this is more a compilation of- "Stuff we KNEW we had to save we either fucked up on, or there was no cache of."
:If a page wasn't on the lists in the first place (for a variety of reasons) then it's not gonna be there.  Sorta "Known Unknowns" vs. "Unknown Unknowns." -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:27, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

::Yeah, I figured that out pretty quickly after I typed that when I noticed the number of redlinks on extant pages vs. blue links on cached pages, especially around the Japanese stuff (half of the Beast Wars Neo episode articles appear to be gone, for instance). - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 18:33, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Lonegamer has many (if not all, I dunno) of the Beast Wars Neo episodes in her [http://miscfile.alienharmony.com/transformers/lonegamers-cache.zip saved caches], as well as lots of other Japanese article-related stuff, as I posted here earlier, for those folks who typically work on the Japanese articles. *hint*nudge*kick* --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:20, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::::The vast majority of the ''Neo'' episode articles were just skeletons and are available on the Other Place. It's not really that big of a deal. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 20:55, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::So what's the possibility of pulling old versions of these pages from the Wikia version, i.e. the current versions as of when we left? -- [[User:Dark T Zeratul|Dark T Zeratul]] 18:45, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::::::Those (currently) 30 pages? Virtually nil - they're all redlinks over there except [[End of the Maximals!?]], which is a virtually-empty shell. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 19:57, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::::ISTR I added [[Kazuhiko Gōdo]] and [[Yukiyoshi Ōhashi]] less than a week before the Event, so I'm not surprised they're unrecoverable. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:14, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

===And so it Begins...===
Deceptitraan has begun to do an edit sweeps.  I'm calling this "Pass 1."  He will ATTEMPT to;
* Remove the wikia spam
* Fix the <nowiki>{{factions}}</nowiki> template
* properly format the <nowiki>{{disambig2}}</nowiki>'s
* Fix <nowiki>{{note}}</nowiki>s
This is going to be at least fourteen '''thousand''' edits, minimum.  It's gonna take awhile.  (The 'what's missing' sweep was 20-100 times faster because it didn't have to post edits.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 23:11, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:While I think of it, I'm gonna add those filters to my page-fixer tool too.  Let me knwo if that cause it to glitch. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 23:21, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:On-the-fly change-- Deceptitran is now also fixing links like <nowiki>[[Slumdog]]</nowiki> to simply read <nowiki>[[Slumdog]]</nowiki>. (The import script rendered ''everything'' as a two-part link.)
:I'll go back and re-check the 500-or-so articles already edited for this after. '''Note to self:''' ''The articles I want to re-check are the ones <u>lacking</u> flag2 in the database.'' -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 00:10, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::Three little points, based on a '''tiny''' sample of Deceptitran's edits:
::#Careful which side of the <nowiki>[[x]]</nowiki> links you grab. The general rule seems to be that the left hand side always has the first letter capitalised, and I've seen a couple of pages where <nowiki>[[continuity family]] has become [[Continuity family]]</nowiki> when the "c" should have stayed small.
:::Just inadvertently confirmed, because Deceptitran filtered THIS page! (i.e., the "links" above". I reverted :)) It indeed took the capitalised left-hand side. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 01:13, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::#Can you grab the equivalent <nowiki>{{storylink}}</nowiki>s while you're at it? There's a lot of <nowiki>{{storylink|x|x}}</nowiki>s too for much the same reason.
::#On [[Buzzsaw (Cybertron)]], the [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Buzzsaw_(Cybertron)&diff=prev&oldid=223597 <nowiki>{{note}}</nowiki> initially got messed up]. I think it's an edge case, since others seem to have gone through okay, but something to watch if you haven't fixed it.
::Otherwise, keep up the good work :) *wonders aloud if this might fix the article-counting problem - if a page gets edited, or even null-edited, it gets readded to the numbering if it's slipped out, doesn't it?* - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 00:25, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

::What voodoo are you using to spot <nowiki>[[Slumdog]]</nowiki> links?  I couldn't get that one worked out. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:37, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:::I ''was'' using a callback-- /\[\[(.+)\|(\1)\]\]/i --> [[$2]].
:::''Find all links where the second term is the same as the first term, using case-insensitive match, and use the second term.''  (I was originally using the first, oops.)
:::Problem is I eventually realized that would turn links to <nowiki>[[Energon Cube|energon cube]] into [[energon cube]]</nowiki>, and only the ''first letter'' can be insensitive.  :p
:::Now I'm using a callback function.  Like killing flies with a nuke.  (And I'm gonna use this page to test that callback.)  *sets up some bad links.* -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:42, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
* [[Energon Cube|energon cube]] - no
* [[energon cube]] - yes
* [[energon Cube]] - yes
* [[energon Cube]] - yes
* [[energon cube|energon Cube]] - no
::::Woohoo!  It parsed 'em all right, we are good to go!
::::It looks like I ran about 700 pages through the bad version of the filter but... I have a hard time making myself care.  That's about 1.2% of our pages, and 98% of the time the difference between the two types of links will be nil or cosmetic.  It's '''right''' going forward, but I'm not going back to fix the others.
::::Also, I looked at the buzzsaw link you posted-- the <nowiki>{{note}}</nowiki> part got rewiki'd perfectly!  It's just that it had a leftover HTML link in it!
::::There's like 50 variants of <a href=""> on the site right now because browsers tended to save the files as THEY thought they looked.
::::Open a page in firefox and hit "view source."  Now highlight a chunk of a page and right-click "view source."  '''THE CODE IS DIFFERENT'''.  The right-click gives you the HTML as it's been shuffled around by the geko rendering engine, which puts all the classes, titles, hrefs and so on in the SAME ORDER, regardless of what their sequence was in the original HTML.
::::I figure there's gonna be some MONSTER link-parsing function that takes all of this into account for another sweep after this.  :p  (at which point the anchor tag within that perfectly valid <nowiki>{{note}{</nowiki> template would be correctly wikified.)
::::There's nothing wrong with the <nowiki>{{note}}</nowiki> filter-- it's just that it ''only'' does <nowiki>{{note}}</nowiki>s. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:57, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::FYI, the "BIG SWEEP" is just under 20% complete.  About 4000 pages has been edited by Deceptitran, removing wikia spam, fixing links and a couple common templates.  Hit "show bots" in recent changes to see him in action! -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 17:42, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
The Big Sweep ended on, uh... Friday?  So the wikia links and some other changes should all be excused.  (Sipher has apparently noticed that ''redirects'' still have them in non-rendering form.) Prep-work for sweep 2.0 (which should go faster) may now commence! -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:55, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

== Lonegamer's Cache ==

Lonegamer sent me all of her browser cache files the other day. I've already reposted a few I can recognize as being ones we lost, but there's some other possibly useful stuff in here, lots of Japanese episode and manga-related stuff, especially. I link to it for those who might need such things: http://miscfile.alienharmony.com/transformers/lonegamers-cache.zip --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 19:30, 21 March 2009 (EDT)
:Fantastic! I was able to use some of the files from here to fix a bunch of articles. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:33, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

== G1MarvelBlaster's cache saves ==

It doesn't look like these were part of the original upload of files: [http://www.fileqube.com/shfolder/180305DXXRbmdM].  I can't seem to download the files though. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:19, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:I just downloaded [[Omega bomb]] cache article. Seems to be working alright. Is there some reason why people decided to not upload the files to scout's server so they could be restored en-mass? It seems to me that some people deciding to upload files elsewhere is the reason for so many articles not being updated. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 01:41, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::I know there was a problem with Scout's FTP being down at one point, so it's possible people decided to upload elsewhere during that time. (I personally had just uploaded the pages right after saving as a backup, before Scout set up her FTP, but I offered to reupload if needed... no one told me to, however.)
::I will note that G1MarvelBlaster and other folks linked to their uploads in the original finish summary, though, so they did inform that they uploaded it somewhere else. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 02:04, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::I managed to get [[Paradron communicator]] out by hitting download, copying and pasting the HTML code into a file, saving the file, and then processing it. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 02:38, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:So does someone want to volunteer to grab these and reprocess them?  You can skip all the October files, since I think Derek did those, and several of the Optimus Prime ones have already been done.  Should be around 160 in total.  I'd do it, but I have 600+ articles which are [[Gort|messes]] to try to reprocess. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:23, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::I'm starting to work on these. I'm currently running them through your conversion script and then pasting the code into the Wiki page. Is this the fastest method?--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 14:26, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

===Zip file===
[http://www.aldenbates.com/g1marvelblaster.zip Here is a 1MB zip file] containing 131 of the cache files.  I've left out the ones which I know for sure have already been updated. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:16, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:I've tried to download it, but what I get is only 403 bytes and contains no files. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 14:31, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::His link was incorrect. He had a b instead of a v in G1Marvelblaster. The link is fixed now and I've already done the first 10 files in the zip. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 18:32, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:::D'oh! Thanks for that! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:55, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Thanks!  It works fine for me now. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 19:22, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::::No problemo. Updating my status as having the first <s>20</s> 100 files complete (Octopunch to <s>Omega_Supreme_(Animated)</s> Overlord (disambiguation)). Whew, almost there.--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 21:55, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
They're done! Finally got through all 131 pages. The Google's cache for the Paradron Medic may have been overwritten before we got to it, as the cache file had a Wikia link. Might already be known or not matter, but I wanted to make note of it, just in case. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 19:50, 1 April 2009 (EDT)

== Why are we blocking the Wayback Machine? ==

I accidentally hit the Wayback Machine rather than MSN when I was trying to grab the cache for a page there, and was informed that:
:''We're sorry, access to http://tfwiki.net/wiki/End_of_the_Road_(Titan) has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.''
Wha-huh?! - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 10:34, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:There was nothing in our robots.txt that ''should'' stop the Internet Archive from viewing us, but there also wasn't anything useful in it anyway, so I've deleted the file. That's weird. --[[User:Suki Brits|Suki Brits]] 12:02, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::It's probably Archive.org's default answer-string for "I don't have it."
::Just like YouTube video player informs you a video is no longer available even if it it's just having a timeout error. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 18:22, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:::No, the default is simply "Sorry, no matches" ([http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://news.bbc.co.uk/thispagedoesnotexist example]) - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 21:01, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::I believe the Wayback Machine's crawlers simply look for the presence of a robots.txt and not the content of it. At least that's the impression I've gotten from using the Wayback Machine.--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 13:15, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

==Page shrinkage==
I took a stab at cleaning up the loose code on [[Galvatron (G1)]], restoring quotes and notes and whatnot, and now the page seems to be half its normal width.  Uh, help?  I mentioned this in the Summary box too, but for some reason it didn't appear in Recent Changes.  --[[User:Thylacine 2000|Thylacine 2000]] 14:17, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

== Too big to wikify? ==

I have attempted to convert [[Optimus Prime (Armada)]] a few times, as recovering that will let us split the toy section out again. It seems to choke Derik's tool, though.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 18:52, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:Do it section-by-section. [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text2.php Derik's tool] DOES have an upper limit, but if you put it through in smaller chunks, it'll work. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 18:56, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::I've restored the toy page from G1MarvelBlaster's cache version.  I'd suggest getting Optimus Prime (Armada) from there too, as it looks like that might be a more up-to-date version than was originally imported here. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:29, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

Incidentally, [http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Ftfwiki.net%2Fwiki%2FOptimus_Prime_(Armada)_toys Optimus Prime (Armada) toys] is still in Google's cache in its' own right. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 19:27, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
:It's in G1MarvelBlaster's archive of cache files too. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:36, 22 March 2009 (EDT)
::Yeah, my took is kinda hacky.  I didn't know about the limit... but it doesn't surprise me.  I've got an AWFUL LOT of "match everything" Regex's set to Multiline mode, with callbacks.  Enough KB of text probably cause that to choke. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:38, 22 March 2009 (EDT)

I noticed Sanity or Madness pulling his hair out over all the garbled talk pages-- both too long for my tool and indented which it doesn't handle.

Well it handles indents now.  And '''especially or talk pages''' [http://emopanda.com/motormouth/rewiki_text3i.php Version 3i].  It just does indents and headers, so it can filter long pages.  (You'll still have to break 'em up to fix everything else, but at least now they're more comprehensible when you try to.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 03:18, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

== Working on scrambled pages ==

Some of the pages ended up completely scrambled - IE no HTML conversion and, you'll note, no categories.  I've been restoring as many of them as I can, but some of the original cache files have really strange line breaks in them, often in the middle of HTML tags and both mine and Derik's scripts pretty much choke on them.  I went through the articles on my list which start with the letter 'D' tonight, saving new copies of them from Google, Yahoo and MSN, however I couldn't recover these four:

{{collist|2|
*<s>[[Decepticon detector]]</s>
*<s>[[Decepticon medic (Devil's Due)]]</s>
*<s>[[Decepticons at the Pole]]</s>
*<s>[[Deepdive]]</s>
}}

So if anyone has spare copies of these, please speak up! :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:46, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:Done, I think. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 05:34, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::Woo! Cool!  Having done a mass process of the rest of the files on my list, the following three are the only ones I couldn't retrieve from caches:
:*<s>[[Safeguard (Cybertron)]]</s>
:*<s>[[Safeguard Team]]</s>
:*<s>[[Salvage (Recyclon)]]</s>
::It looks like the other 510 files processed all right, so now I just have to go through them all and paste them into the articles on teh Wiki --[[User:Abates|abates]] 05:45, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:::What did you code your tool in anyway?  Do you want copies of my PHP callbacks?
:::I really think Sweep #2 is just going to require a "Find an <a> tag, now pick it apart and put it back together no matter what order the fucker is in." function. Admittedly, this is more-or-less how I wrote the indenter-- it's a progressive parser, just like the Bad Old Days of write-it-yourself XML parsers.  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 06:40, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::::It's coded in Perl.  Sure, a copy of the callbacks would be useful, thanks!
::::I never could get the indenting right - it doesn't help that the HTML MediaWiki generates doesn't seem to close its <nowiki><li></nowiki> tags all of the time. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:02, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::This is PHP not perl, but the basic concept applies...
<pre>function fixIndents($wiki_text){
	$lines = explode("\n", $wiki_text);
	$new_text = '';
		$options = array(	'down' => '<dl>',
							'up' => '</dl>',
							'new_sib' => '<dd>',
							'end_sib' => '</dd>'
						);

	$indent = 0;
	foreach($lines as $line){
		$evaluate_line = true;
		$offset = 0;
		while ($evaluate_line){
			$position = null;
			$mode = null;
			foreach ($options as $mode_type => $option){
				$loc = strpos($line, $option, $offset);  //I'm pretty sure $offset is always 0 when it hits this line.
				if ($loc !== false){
					if (($position === null) || ($loc < $position)){
						$position = $loc;
						$mode = $mode_type;
					}
				}
			}//End Options
			if ($position !== null){
				//echo "<p>$mode</p>";
				$offset = ($position);
				switch ($mode){
					case 'down':
						$indent++;
						$replacement = '';
						break;
					case 'up':
						$indent--;
						$replacement = '';
						break;
					case 'new_sib':
						$indent2 = $indent;
						if ($indent2 < 0) $indent2 = 0;
						$replacement = str_pad('',$indent2,':');
						break;
					case 'end_sib':
						$replacement = '';
						break;
				}
				$line = substr_replace( $line, $replacement, $offset, strlen($options[$mode]) );
				$offset=0;
			} else {
				$evaluate_line = false;
//				echo $line;
			}
		}//Endline
		//$problems = array();
		//$problems[strpos($line,$begin_parent)];
		$new_text .= $line;
	}
	$wiki_text = $new_text;
	$wiki_text = str_replace( '</p><p>', "\n\n", $wiki_text );
	$wiki_text = str_replace( '<p>', '', $wiki_text );
	$wiki_text = str_replace( "\n</p>", '', $wiki_text );
	return $wiki_text;
}</pre>I break it up line-by-line just o to reduce overhead.
Then I scan for DL's and DD's, looking for which is "next."  If I encounter a DL, I add one to the #of indents.  (DL means you're going 'down' a level, <DL means you're going up one.)  The DL and /DL tage themselves you can just erase then.

They each DD represents the start of a new line- which has to be indented with the correct number of :'s (which has been going up and down every time we wan into a DL or /DL.)  So i replace the DD with, for example "::::" (four indents.)  You can just erase the /DD's.

It sounds really stupid, but it works perfectly.  My messy code is really just a reflection of the fact it has to be de-parsed using a state machine instead of stateless regular expressions. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 09:37, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
===Callbacks===
====Link callback====
<pre>preg_replace_callback('/<a href="(.+(#.+)?)"( class="(.+)")? title="(.+)"( rel="(.+)")?>(.+)<\/a>/Ui'  , 'fixLinks' );

function fixLinks($matches){
	$url = $matches[1];
	$anchor = $matches[2];
	$specialClass = $matches[4];
	$title = $matches[5];
	$prettyText = $matches[8];
	$returning = '';
	if (($title.$anchor) == $prettyText){
		$returning = "[[$prettyText]]";
	}else{
		//Text is different
		$returning = "[[$title$anchor|$prettyText]]";
	}

	if ($specialClass == 'external text'){
		$returning = "[$title $prettyText]";
	}
	return $returning;
}
/* ===========================================================================
   Note that this will still return [[Energon cube|energon cube]] because it doesn't
 treat the first character as caseless-- but the NEXT callback will fix that...
   This function will also correctly parse Wikipedia links, Wookiepedia links, and
 external links.  Yay!
=============================================================================== */

preg_replace_callback('/\[\[(.+)\|(\1)\]\]/iU'  , 'fixLinks2' ); //\1 is a mid-pattern callback to the first() subpattern.  "If the text is the same withotu case, refer the link to the callback function."

function fixLinks2 ($matches) {
	$one = $matches[1];
	$two = $matches[2];
	if ( substr($one,1) == substr($two,1)){
		return '[[' . $two . ']]';
	} else {
		return '[[' . $one . '|' . $two . ']]';
	}
} //Literally just compares substrings excluding the first character, LOL.
</pre>

...all 3 of these came from, different script files, oddly enough.  I don't have ONE script that does them all. ;)
====Header callback====
<pre>preg_replace_callback( '/<a name=".+"><\/a><h([123456])><span class="editsection">\[<a href=".+" title="Edit section:.+">edit<\/a>\]<\/span> <span class="mw-headline">(.+)<\/span><\/h[123456]>/Ui'  , 'fixHeaders');

function fixHeaders($matches){
	$padding = str_pad( '', $matches[1], '=');
	return $padding . $matches[2] . $padding . "";
} //How many ='s?  Just count the number on the tag!  1 for H1, 6 for H6.</pre>

Hope that's helpful.  Is perl Ecmascript?  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 09:53, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:It's from the same family tree as PHP and Ecmascript.  The syntax is very similar, in fact! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 15:55, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
====Link rewriting code====
Derik!  In case it's helpful, here's my latest code for rewriting the links:
<pre>sub fixlinks {
  my $str=shift;
  my $pos=0;
  while(substr($str,$pos) =~ /(<a ([^>]*?)>(.*?)<\/a>)/i) {
    $wholelink=$1;
    $builtlinkcode="";
    $linkcode=$2;
    $text=$3;
    $pos=index($str,$wholelink)+1;
    next if($linkcode =~ /name=/i);  # skip <a name=
    $class=""; $title=""; $url="";
    $class=$1 if($linkcode =~ /class="(.*?)"/i);
    $title=$1 if($linkcode =~ /title="(.*?)"/i);
    $url=$1 if($linkcode =~ /href="(.*?)"/i);
    if($class eq "extiw") {  # interwiki, usually to Wikipedia
      if($url =~ /\#(.*)$/) {
        $title.='#'.$1;
      }
      $builtlinkcode = "[[$title|$text]]";
    } else {
      if($class =~ /^external/i) {  #external link
        $builtlinkcode = "[$url]" if($class =~ /external autonumber/i);
        $builtlinkcode = "[$url $text]" if($class =~ /external text/i);
      } else {
        if($url =~ /\#(.*)$/) {
          $title.='#'.$1;
        }
        $firstletter=substr($text,0,1);
        $matching=((substr($title,1) eq substr($text,1))&&($title =~ /^$firstletter/));
        $title = ':'.$title if($title =~ /^(Image|Category)/i);
        $builtlinkcode="[[$title]]" if($matching);
        $builtlinkcode="[[$title|$text]]" if(!$matching);
      }
    }
    substr($str,index($str,$wholelink),length($wholelink))=$builtlinkcode;
  }
  $str;
}</pre>

No more <nowiki>[[boing|boing]]</nowiki> links! :P --[[User:Abates|abates]] 17:57, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:OK, not quite perfect yet, but it catches most of them! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:33, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

== Faction template ==

Faction template is ''working'', but someone (preferably not me,) needs to go in and fill in all the icons again or it's gonna start sprewing garbate all over page titles.  Only a medium level of template competence is require,d it's all copy-and-paste.
# Go here[[Template:Factions/icons]].
# Starting with the Maximal/Predacon entries as a model, add all the other factions.
You can find all the names to use and the image files that go when them only ''slightly'' garbled in the table here; [[Template:Factions]].

Just copy and paste as swap out the names.  Volunteers? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 12:44, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:Well, now I know why I've never seen it working... why DOES it require JavaScript? It isn't hard to specify an absolute position to place in the header using CSS alone, surely? - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 12:52, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

:<Raises hand> I'll do it! Shouldn't take me more than a couple hours, if that. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 13:57, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

And it's done. All the symbols in the list Derik linked to have been added to the template. I've verified that all the images are working with one exception: the Blendtron logo. I tried the filename listed on the linked list as well as the [[Blendtron]] page and neither shows up. I'm not sure if the image file listed for predaconrid is right or not. Is it supposed to be the same as the Beast Wars Predacon? Also, some of the mouseover text may need to be changed in order to restore Teh Funny. I can do that myself if someone can provide me with a list of what needs to be tweaked. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 16:32, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:I didn't think we had funny mouseovers on these things.
:Thanks for the work, it was nice not to be attacking it on my own-- I'll take s look at the files to see if some are missing.
:Answering Sanity||Madness's question... absolutely-positioned CSS is unideal because it can obscure long titles.  Unlikely to happen with character names... but for some unnamed characters with descriptive titles it could happen.  With Javascript everything is inline and will wrap correctly if it gets cramped. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:21, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::You're welcome. The reason I ask about funny stuff is because of the articles/mouseover text present in the [[Template:Factions]] list. Specifically, Mutants links to 'Filthy muties', Cobra to 'Can the world oppose deadly Eskimos?' and Go-Bots to 'Go GO GO-BOTS!'. I couldn't tell if that was supposed to be part of the template or not, considering none of those pages exist.--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 21:02, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

Okay, I couldn't figure out exactly where this goes, but there are pages with messed up html where the faction template should be inserted, such as [[Decepticon Sixbuilder]] and [[Dinotron]] (which I just fixed, but the issues can be seen in the history).  I don't know of a good way to search for other files with the same issue, so I have no idea how widespread the problem is. --[[User:Loudstone|Loudstone]] 05:08, 18 April 2009 (EDT)
:It's where the faction code hasn't been converted back to the template.  Unfortunately I haven't been able to find a way to search for pages where it's an issue. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 05:55, 18 April 2009 (EDT)
::The div has an id of "title-factionicons".  But a search for this generates only 9 results, and they don't have the messed up code.  How often is the search's cache updated?  I'd think a search for "title-factionicons" would work once it was updated, since the correct faction icons are generated through JavaScript.  That is, of course, assuming that the search bot doesn't support JavaScript... --[[User:Loudstone|Loudstone]] 06:19, 18 April 2009 (EDT)
:::The MediaWiki search engine ignores HTML tags, so a search for "title-factionicons" won't turn anything up. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 06:57, 18 April 2009 (EDT)
::::I'm sorry, I mean to say search for "factionicons", as "title-factionicons" doesn't work (something about the hyphen I assume).  Since they do show up in the results, I assume that code was pasted in with characters encoded (ie &amplt; rather than &lt;) --[[User:Loudstone|Loudstone]] 07:14, 18 April 2009 (EDT)
:::::Yeah, the pages that come up when you search for that are basically ghost pages that we need to get rid of at some point, so you can disregard them for the purposes of the cleanup. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:26, 18 April 2009 (EDT)

==Bookworm template==
I'd like to use Derik's [[Template:Bookworm|Bookworm template]] to help organize the restoration process as I edit individual pages to varying degrees of completion.  But I think a few improvements could go a long way toward making it more relevant, and for the sake of not cluttering this page up, I've [[Template talk:Bookworm#Improvement suggestions|suggested my ideas on its Talk page]]. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 21:13, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
:TBH, I'm not sure what the point of using that template is any more... why bother with stages instead of just going ahead and completely cleaning up any messed-up pages you come across? Saves everyone's time that way. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 21:23, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

::Hmm, I already have a list of all pages at "stage 1" (imported, but needs reconverting.), which I'm slowly getting though.
::The tricky ones are those at "stage 0" and identifying which ones should have been updated but weren't (I noticed [[Money Is Everything]] wasn't).  Sometimes these are pages which were moved between June last year and now, so the cache version has been uploaded at a different place (All the Reign of Starscream issues).  Sometimes it was deleted between June and now.
::So I suspect that if you come across what looks like a legit content page, and it has a Wikia link at the bottom, and you don't know why it hadn't been updated, it might be handy to slap a bookworm template on it? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:06, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

:::Makes sense to me.  In answer to Jeysie's question, the value is that I don't always have the time to patiently untangle garbled code, but seldom am I so harried that I can't put a template on a page.  And even if I ''do'' have a decent amount of time, the work isn't always worth it at the moment.  For instance, I'm restoring Community Portal archives right now, and at first the convertor was messing up the thread-indentation.  This was both a minor problem and a major amount of work to fix, so I didn't want to devote the time yet, but I did want to leave an obvious trail so it could be taken care of later when the time was right (or ignored in perpetuity if nobody ended up caring, but at least people would know the issue existed).  The Bookworm template, with an option for a comment, would've been perfect.  Now, all that having been said, this issue no longer exists, as I've discovered that the other convertor handles indentation fine.  But it's hard for me to imagine that there are ''no'' other problems like this scattered throughout our thousands of pages. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 22:36, 23 March 2009 (EDT)
::::I guess I figure... I'd rather just be patient and work on things one-by-one... if I come across a page that'll take a while I just dig into it and work on it in bits until I'm done with it, then move on. I'd rather just fix pages as I come across them instead of slapping a template on it and hoping someone else will do it.
::::But if it's a problem where someone really can't figure out the coding, then maybe some of us who are more wikicode-familiar can offer to help. I'm willing to have anyone who comes across a page they totally can't figure out dump a link to it on my talk page. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 22:48, 23 March 2009 (EDT)

::::I agree with Jackpot -- when we come across an article that's just a trainwreck, we need a way to mark it as such.  Frankly, I'm not prepared to take on a mess like [[Greg Sepelak]]'s article, but I hate leaving it unmarked.  A way to designate "needs major work" would be handy.  -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 08:03, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::<nowiki>*cough*</nowiki> Done. I just ran the cache page back through Abates' converter, which did the lion's share of the work, tweaked what didn't get fixed, and posted it. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 08:11, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:::::Addendum: Now, references... I will say that '''those''' suck. *stares at the 2K7 movie page with a sigh and puts it on her to-do list after some sleep* --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 08:22, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

:::::I have a big list of the trainwrecks.  Current count: 425 articles, all starting with the letters G, R, or S (LOTS beginning with S), and I've been working at it nightly.  I expect to be finished sometime this weekend. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 15:39, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

:::''So I suspect that if you come across what looks like a legit content page, and it has a Wikia link at the bottom, and you don't know why it hadn't been updated, it might be handy to slap a bookworm template on it?''

:::I'm going to repeat this suggestion, because I've noticed a couple of incidents of people removing the wikia crap from pages, but the reason those pages weren't updated was because they were moved before the data loss and they exist under a different name. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 19:04, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

::::Still agreed, and on a slight tangent:  We should encourage the immediate purging of any Wikia-link on sight, but that may be the only obvious indication that a page is massively outdated or occupying a mistranslated namespace or whatever.  So rather than feel obligated to deduce the true nature of the page and restore it every time we remove that bread-crumb, we should feel free to slap a <tt><nowiki>{{bookworm|0}}</nowiki></tt> on it and move along. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 20:31, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

== To Anyone Who Works on Marvel US Pages Before I Do... ==

While double-checking links on the main Marvel US page, I noticed that some of the Marvel US pages seem to be sporting the original comicnav... which means they either didn't update properly or the Google cache was old, as I know I updated them all to the Comicstory template. Just an FYI. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 00:58, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:[[Yesterday's Heroes!]], for instance?  I'm guessing it got uploaded at the wrong name and someone tagged it for deletion without moving the code over? Also [[Ca$h and Car-nage!]] is now an article about the [[Byacrane]]. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:44, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
::In fairness, kids do need to learn more about Byacrane. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 08:30, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

==Macron issues==
Currently, the Wiki is containing two pages of every article with a macron in its title. One with the macron properly over the letter, and one with the two characters separate. (I.e., the regular version has ō as G%C5%8 in the url. The fucked up version has it as o%CC%84.) I don't know how to handle this issue, since clicking on the title with the characters separate just takes you to the page with the characters together. [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Go%CC%84ryu%CC%84&diff=prev&oldid=201806 Their individual diffs can be accessed, though.] Perhaps somebody with a old browser that doesn't support the macron sign can fix it? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 06:25, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:I don't think an older browser will make any difference - the redirect is occurring at the server end.  --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:35, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
::Okay, that's annoying. I guess somebody with the ability will have to dig through the Wiki's drive to delete them. Scout, I guess? [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 08:22, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Hmm, I wonder what would happen if you tried moving one of the affected pages (not that I'm suggesting anyone try this, at least until we have backups working).
:::My gut instinct is to say we should leave it as a problem until we're back up and running at 100%, since it doesn't seem to be stopping anything from working. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:00, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
::::I don't have a problem with prioritization; I just put this up so I wouldn't forget about it later. The one and only problem arising from them (other than taking up space) is that they show up in categories. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 16:03, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:Having loaded up a test install of MediaWiki 1.12.0, I managed to duplicate the macron problem we're having here.  After trying some ideas, I was unable to find a way to rename or delete the problem article through the software itself, so it appears that the only way to delete them is to delete the problem records directly in the database.  I didn't encounter any problems from doing that on the test install, but it'd be good to consult with the MediaWiki developers, perhaps, to confirm that it won't cause any problems. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 05:17, 9 April 2009 (EDT)
::Did you try moving the "real" pages away to something like "Macron 1", deleting the redirect from the real page and then trying the "broken" one? - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 11:32, 12 April 2009 (EDT)
:::Yep.  When you do that, trying the broken one just takes you to the corrected URL, which says it's been deleted. Most of my experiments revolved around using a greasemonkey script to allow me to fiddle with the form data I was submitting when moving, but none of it worked - MediaWiki would always correct the article name before doing the move. (sorry for not replying to this earlier - I didn't see your reply!) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:38, 18 April 2009 (EDT)
::::Is it possible to delete individual history logs? It's possible to access diffs, like [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Professor_Go%CC%84&diff=prev&oldid=204130 here]. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 21:25, 18 April 2009 (EDT)
:::::MediaWiki doesn't provide any way through the interface to delete stuff that way, no. I'm wondering if one of the command-line scripts included would be able to fix the problem (my web host doesn't have shell access, so I don't think I can run them on my test server) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:09, 18 April 2009 (EDT)

== Updating the page counter ==

Not critical I understand, but when we initially did the migration the counter could be corrected by a script an admin could run if I recall.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 12:15, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

== References ==

While there's obviously no way to fully automate these, I do wonder if there's some way to automatically make them more readable.

Like being able to turn:

<tt><nowiki><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[[#cite_note-0|[1]]]</sup></nowiki></tt>

into:

<tt><nowiki><ref>1</ref></nowiki></tt>

Or turn:

<tt><nowiki><sup id="cite_ref-lorenzoiesb_16-1" class="reference">[[#cite_note-lorenzoiesb-16|[17]]]</sup></nowiki></tt>

into:

<tt><nowiki><ref name="lorenzoiesb">17</ref></nowiki></tt>

Then at the bottom, turn:

<tt><nowiki><li id="cite_note-0">[[#cite_ref-0|↑]] The movie had some content cuts to meet the standards of some <strike>oppressive regimes</strike> quaint "developing world" rating boards.</nowiki></tt>

into:

<tt><nowiki>0 The movie had some content cuts to meet the standards of some <strike>oppressive regimes</strike> quaint "developing world" rating boards.</nowiki></tt>

And:

<tt><nowiki><li id="cite_note-tfwtour-12">↑ <sup>[[#cite_ref-tfwtour_12-0|13.0]]</sup> <sup>[[#cite_ref-tfwtour_12-1|13.1]]</sup> <sup>[[#cite_ref-tfwtour_12-2|13.2]]</sup> <sup>[[#cite_ref-tfwtour_12-3|13.3]]</sup> [http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=139273 BotCon 2007 Hasbro tour report.]</nowiki></tt>

into:

<tt><nowiki>tfwtour 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 [http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/showthread.php?t=139273 BotCon 2007 Hasbro tour report.]</nowiki></tt>

And:

<tt><nowiki><li id="cite_note-murphylatino-3">[[#cite_ref-murphylatino_3-0|↑]] [http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=1502 Latino Review interview with producer Don Murphy.]</nowiki></tt>

into:

<tt><nowiki>murphylatino [http://www.latinoreview.com/news.php?id=1502 Latino Review interview with producer Don Murphy.]</nowiki></tt>

Or just ''something'' like this to turn the mess into as much usable (or at least readable) code as possible.

I don't know if this sort of processing is even ''possible'', but if it is, it would definitely make it easier to clean up pages that have more than just a few references. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 17:42, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
:Oh, you could automate them.  Same way my tool automates categories. It's just a fair amount of work.  (...I suppose I should take a whack at it at SOME point.) -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 20:24, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::I honestly think it might be worth it... it took me literally a number of ''hours'' to untangle the references on the 2K7 movie page, and we have a fair number of similarly reference-heavy pages. (The Japanese Generation 1 Cartoon Timeline, for instance, is sitting in my bookmarks until I have the courage to tackle untangling ~60 references on a giant list. XP) Anything that can make the process even slightly easier would be well-appreciated if it's doable. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 20:32, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

== Nautilator ==

We have [[Nautilator]], [[Nautilator (G1)]] and [[Nautilator (Energon)]]
* Nautilator and Nautilator (G1) are the same guy.
* Nautilator (G1) disambigs to Nautilator (Energon) and vice versa.
* Nautilator is the only one of the three which has a cache version saved for it.
* Neither Nautilator (G1) nor Nautilator (Energon) come up in web searches.

It looks to me as if Nautilator (Energon) was deleted sometime between June and the Crash and Nautilator (G1) was moved to Nautilator.  Anyone know the history there? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 21:47, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

:The Energon guy no longer exists, basically.  The toy that was going to become ''Energon'' Nautilator eventually found release as a new version of the G1 guy through the fan club.  So the Energon guy got absorbed back into the G1 guy's page.  I think only Archerbot keeps a separate page, since he's got his own name.  Maybe?  I'm not sure, actually, but that's how I understand all this. -- [[User:Repowers|Repowers]] 22:17, 24 March 2009 (EDT)
::I was the guy who merged them. Archerbot wasn't an exception. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 22:31, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

::Oh! [[Piranhacon|These guys]]!  So that's why those pages didn't get updated from the cache results. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:16, 24 March 2009 (EDT)

== Misplaced Pages ==

We have [[Super-God Masterforce (franchise)]] and [[Super-God Masterforce]], the latter of which has more information than the former. Which one do I keep? --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 04:18, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:The latter one was resurrected with the rollback, by the looks.  All the extra info is redundant with what's on [[Super-God Masterforce (cartoon)]] anyway. I suggest setting it as a redirect to the franchise page. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:54, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::That's what I figured, but I thought I'd check. OK, this issue is settled. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 04:59, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:::We've got a whole bunch of redundant pages now, ranging from [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]/[[Kup (G1)]] to [[Detour (episode)|Detour (Cybertron episode)/Detour (episode)]].  Good fun! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 06:11, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

[[Transcendent Technomorph|Transtech]] and [[Transcendent Technomorph|TransTech]] are both about the canceled franchise. Shouldn't one of them be about the club comic alternate dimension? Where did that info go? --[[User:Crockalley|Crockalley]] 18:50, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
:Looks like Transtech got uploaded at TransTech by accident.  Both pages were in the cache zip, so I've restored them to their proper places.  Thanks for pointing that out! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:37, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

==Pages in Google cache but not in tfwikicache.tar.gz==
So I noticed that [[Omnibot]] was suspiciously outdated, and it turns out it wasn't included in tfwikicache.tar.gz for some reason, even though it's in the Google cache, dated Mar. 9.  I didn't see "Omnibot" under any of the "Lost Pages" or "Sweep" lists, so I wanted to bring it to people's attention that this phenomenon exists.  I've updated [[Omnibot]] completely, but I have no idea how many other pages out there might be like this, with Google's clock still ticking on them. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 04:41, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:That's because Omnibot, as well as various other "O" and "P" pages, are in G1MarvelBlaster's cache pile as linked under "[[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal/Damage Control Central#Useful Resources|Useful Resources]]" (and as mentioned several times on this page previously :>). --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 04:47, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
::If no one does those by the time I finish going through all the totally slagged pages, I guess I'll be doing them. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:51, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

::Ah, thank you.  I knew there was something strange regarding the O's and P's, but I couldn't find the relevant conversation.  There's.... a lot to keep up with. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 04:56, 25 March 2009 (EDT)

==Talk-page cache?==
Have the talk-pages been downloaded from the Google cache en masse and put into a .zip somewhere the way the articles have?  According to [[#Saved|the stats above]], only a handful have been "saved," whatever that means. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 14:02, 25 March 2009 (EDT)
:And when I try to go to any of the pages in the link marked "Saved", they don't work.  Google cache just doesn't seem to think they exist at all.  Yet I've seen people restore Talk pages.  How is this done? - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 01:14, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
::I was only able to do it when the <nowiki>{{bookworm}}</nowiki> template provided an automatic link to the page's Google cache.  Now it doesn't.  If I wanted to restore my Talk page, I wouldn't know how to do it.
::Edit: Gah, forgot to nowiki-tag the template name.--[[User:Apcog|Apcog]] 03:09, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:::It's <tt><nowiki>http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:tfwiki.net/wiki/(article title with underscores/encodings as needed)</nowiki></tt>
:::So your user talkpage would be http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:tfwiki.net/wiki/User_talk:Apcog for instance.
::::Much obliged.  Jackpot too, I'm sure.
:::::Doesn't always work. Can't seem to find mine. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 05:07, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

::::Indeed, I thank you as well.  For some reason I couldn't get it to work earlier, but your cache-link is apparently better somehow.  The only problem is that the cache is overwriting itself now.  For instance, I was trying to get [http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:tfwiki.net/wiki/Talk:Sideways Talk:Sideways,] but that's been overwritten with the March 24 version.  I thought that someone had claimed to have downloaded all the Talk pages right after the crash.  Am I imagining things? - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 13:52, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

==Attacktix Template==
I went and restored the [[Template:Attacktix]] off the Wikia copy. I know copying from there is frowned upon, but I compared it to the Google's cache of our version and made the appropriate changes. I also figured templates were a bit of a different animal as opposed to normal articles. It looks like it's ready to be used. Not knowing what our template code looked like however, I can't be certain it's exactly what it was. Are there any problems?--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 02:57, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
:As the original template creator, I can verify it is very much as it was when last I saw it.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 03:07, 26 March 2009 (EDT)
::We shouldn't have issues copying over templates from Wikia. All of it is ''our'' work. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 04:05, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

I've gone through all the pages in the Attacktix category, and added or restored the template for any article that had the template or had the stats laid out for the template. However, since I don't know anything about Attacktix, I couldn't fix any factual errors. I also did not touch the ID numbers for series two, as a consensus on how to format them has yet to be reached. --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 23:40, 7 April 2009 (EDT)

==Midnote template==
Maybe I'm just not looking well enough, but do we still have the midnote template? If so, where is it? If not, can someone restore it, because the regular note really makes some pages look ugly? [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 03:53, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

== Missing images ==

Despite running image import TWICE, the wiki is apparently still 'missing' some images that will have to be re-uploaded by hand.  (However we should actually ''have'' them all.)

When you run into missing images, please post them here so someone can tidy them;

<s>Edgeofextinction-someonefight.jpg found on [[On the Edge of Extinction!]]<br>
Megatron_generic_marvel_uk_265.jpg found on [[Once upon a Time...|Once Upon a Time...]]<br>
Onslaughtmodelsheetshood.jpg found on [[Onslaught (G1)|Onslaught]]<br>
OptimusPrimalvsMegatron.jpg found on [[Optimus Primal vs Megatron!]]<br>
Safeguardriseofsafeguard.jpg found on [[Rise of Safeguard]]</s><br>
--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 14:10, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

<s>Image:ClubCon Raindance GrandSlam.JPG _ [[Raindance]]/[[Grand Slam]]<br>
Image:RobotTimeMachineSixModes.jpg _ [[Autobot (G2)]]<br>
Image:Madman comic Soundwave ejects tapes.jpg _ [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette]]<br>
Image:Breakdown.jpg _ [[Breakdown (G1)]]</s>
--[[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 10:01, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

<s>[[:Image:SpotlightGrimlock cover2.jpg]]</s> --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 13:58, 29 March 2009 (EDT)

<s>[[:Image:GunmodeMegsMasterpieceConvoy.jpg]]</s> missing from [[Megatron (G1) toys]] --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:42, 1 April 2009 (EDT)

:Checked through everything listed and uploaded the Megatron image, so we're caught up on these for the moment.--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 00:43, 2 April 2009 (EDT)

<s>[[:Image:Victory_ep4_sandhide.jpg]] missing from [[Leozack]]</s> --[[User:Abates|abates]] 21:14, 4 April 2009 (EDT)

<s>[[:Image:DivebombMovie-Card.jpg]] missing from [[Divebomb (Movie)]]</s> --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:51, 7 April 2009 (EDT)
:Hmm, tried finding the address from the cache and got http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/4/4b/DivebombMovie-Card.jpg. But there's no file at that URL. Is the file gone? --[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 13:31, 8 April 2009 (EDT)

<s>[[:Image:TFA Headmaster unit facial expression changed.jpg]] missing from [[A Bridge Too Close, Part II]]</s> (I was tempted to steal it back from *mumble*, but the copy there looks blurry anyway) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:37, 1 May 2009 (EDT)
:I resnapped it from my DVD. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 23:41, 1 May 2009 (EDT)


===What to do if you find a image is missing===
#Find a cached version of the page with the image on it (at this stage, it's decreasingly likely Google will have a pre-crash version of the page, so you may be best going for the saved versions linked from the [[#Files]] section of this page).
#Find the image thumbnail which should be present there, and choose to "view image" or "copy image location" (in Firefox, terminology may vary in other browsers, and in IE, you may have to click "Properties" and copy the address from there).
#The URL will be something like <nowiki>http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/</nowiki><font face="monospace" color="red"><u>thumb/</u></font><nowiki>b/b9/Ravageboxart.jpg</nowiki><font face="monospace" color="red"><u>/350px-Ravageboxart.jpg</u></font>. Delete the sections marked in red and go to the altered link (Which should be in the form <nowiki>http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/b/b9/Ravageboxart.jpg</nowiki>. The exact bits after /images2/ will vary, of course) to check that it works.
#Copy that link and go to [[Special:Upload]]. Choose to upload from a URL, and paste that link in the lower "source filename" box. Preferably fill out where it came from/etc at this point, ''but if you don't know'', put '''<nowiki>{{bookworm|5|Needs description and copyright tag}}</nowiki>''' in the lower box and submit it (you may get a "page (but not file) exists"-type message. If so, ignore it and save the file anyway).
- [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 15:37, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

:I think, if the image had descriptive text before, it'll show up again when the image is reuploaded. I had that happen with Image:Tww1_oracle_tank.jpg and Image:Movie_OptimusPrime_MicroIR.jpg. However, it did not happen with the image I crossed off my list above. I'm guessing that one never had a description. It might also be dependent on whether you get to the upload page by clicking on the toolbox link or by clicking the link for the missing image. I've been doing the latter.--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 01:30, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
::What's happened is that some of the PAGES exist, but the database has lost the FILES that are associated with them (The files are still on the server, but MediaWiki is blind to their existence). That leads to the "page (but not file) exists"-type message, and the description which existed before (which may *not* be sufficient, given the rollbacks) will be there when you go to the Image:page. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 14:40, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:I wonder if there's an easy way to search for missing images.  Also, when we move servers, are we going to be able to take ''all'' of the files with us and not just the ones that the MediaWiki database knows about? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 16:55, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

<s>I can't find the source for the Rise of Safeguard one. :\ And I can't find the thumbnail for Image:Stunticons-collectallfive.jpg either.</s> Nevermind. Found them manually. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 07:23, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

== Category link backs ==

I think I removed all the wikia links from the category pages.  We could probably remove that bit from the main page now.  There is a possibility I may have missed a few, but I did go through systematically.

I had no idea we had that many category pages.  Wow. --[[User:Bluestreak7|Bluestreak7]] 12:02, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

== Making things less tedious ==

Because reformatting &lt;gallery&gt;s is tedious, I've made a tool to do it for us.

*[http://www.aldenbates.com/gallerizer Gallerizer]

Copy and paste the gallery code into the form, hit the submit button, copy the reformatted text back out.  Will do multiple galleries, though I don't think we have many pages with more than one. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 20:34, 26 March 2009 (EDT)

===Comic template converter===
I've created a tool to convert the HTML on comic pages to <nowiki>{{comicstory}} and {{comicnav}}</nowiki> templates.  

*[http://www.aldenbates.com/htmltocomic Comicnav conversion tool]

I'm pretty sure I managed to get all of the many many parameters the comicstory template can take, but please check to make sure that they match what's on the original page, and, as always, if it fails to convert something, leave a link to it on my talk page. :)

Interrobang, do you want one for the episode template? --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:11, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:Wow. That's awesome! - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 11:05, 29 March 2009 (EDT)
::Be careful when using it. I lost a non-standard credit of "Finished Pencils". It was just dropped. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 11:26, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
:::When writing the converter, I was working off the current (ie June 2008) version of the comicstory template, however a number of credit types were added since June 2008, so those won't be supported.  This is why I mentioned about checking to make sure the credits match what's on the page. :) --[[User:Abates|abates]] 14:58, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

== Totally scrambled pages ==

All right, I've fixed all of the pages that failed to convert at all and ended up as HTML mess.  At least, all of the ones I could find. If anyone spots any more, feel free to drop a note on my talk page! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 06:56, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

== Infobox template for books? ==

Do we have one for books like do we with comics? I can use the comic ones fine, but I can't figure out how to get the ISBN to show up in the info box and, indeed, how to the get the ISBN function that you can click to search for the book on Amazon and such retailers. Thanks. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 14:57, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
:The ISBN one confused me at first, but it appears if you just write an ISBN, MediaWiki recognises it and turns it into a link: ISBN 1-84023-527-6 --[[User:Abates|abates]] 18:22, 27 March 2009 (EDT)
::We used to have a book infobox, but it must have been new enough that it didn't get saved. We need one, though, I find that trying to cram book page info into the comicstory one is just too awkward. (*would rebuild it herself, except that those infoboxes kind of fall into wikivoodoo territory code-wise*) --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 21:32, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

== Redirects ==

Has a bot been set up to find and remove all the Wikia linkbacks? Because by doing a [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Special:Search&ns0=1&redirs=0&searchx=1&search=wikia&limit=500&offset=0 search for the word Wikia], I've noticed that a lot of them are on redirect pages, and that accessing the redirect page doesn't show that link until you're on the Edit page... --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 20:39, 27 March 2009 (EDT)

== Moved/deleted pages ==

We got a lot of pages back which we had in June 2008 which we didn't before the crash.  I did a diff on the current list of pages and the one we were saving caches from and have 43 pages left to check.  So far, these pages are ones I'm not sure what happened to in the intervening 8 months:

{{collist|3|
# <s>[[Overlord (rank)|Autobot Overlord]]</s>
# [[Clamp]]
# <s>[[Dinocons]]</s>
# <s>[[Gone Forever]]</s>
# <s>[[Holly Kaneko]]</s>
# <s>[[Matrix Buster]]</s>
# [[Monorail transport]]
# <s>[[Seattle-Tacoma area]]</s>
# <s>[[Steamer]]</s>
# <s>[[Taitem Kusunoki]]</s>
# [[Transformers books]]
# <s>[[Transformers in 3D issue 2]]</s>
}}

Dinocons, I'd have assumed was deleted, but our cache copy of [[Dinobot (disambiguation)]] links to it. Holly Kaneko and Taitem Kusunoki are copies of [[Harii Kaneko]] and [[Taiten Kusunoki]] respectively.  Someone with a better grasp of Japanese may know where they belong. Matrix buster and Seattle-Tacoma area may have been merged with [[Big Cannon]] and [[Seattle]].  Steamer, I have no idea what happened to, as "Steamer (G1)" redirects to [[Chuffer]]... --[[User:Abates|abates]] 00:50, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:Yep, I'd moved "Seattle-Tacoma area" to "Seattle" when I realized there were more specific references to that one city in the canon. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 01:19, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:Dinocons is definitely an unrecovered page, possibly one of G1MarvelBlaster's cache recoveries... It's the Shattered Glass Dinobots who ally themselves with Decepticons in that continuity. --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 01:21, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
::Those would be at [[Dinobot (Shattered Glass)]] though!  G1MarvelBlaster's pages all start with O and P. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:42, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Well, no. The "Dinobots" that ended up in Decepticon hands following Dungeons & Dinobots got renamed Dinocons once Do Over started. (literally. The first line of Do Over is "Good morning, Dinocons!".) --[[User:Detour|Detour]] 07:00, 28 March 2009 (EDT)
[[Transformers in 3D issue 2]] was moved to [[Transformers in 3-D issue 2]], following the title on the cover. [[User:Interrobang|—Interrobang]] 13:04, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

==Double redirects==
The restoration process has resulted in [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Special:DoubleRedirects&limit=500&offset=0 quite a lot of double redirects,] and we probably haven't seen the end of it.  I've got other projects I want to use my time on right now, but I figured I'd point this out so that anyone interested could tackle it and keep an eye on it in the future. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 14:59, 28 March 2009 (EDT)

== IDW Gen1 issues completed ==

These have all been fixed.  Still outstanding (as far as I know) are Hearts of Steel, Beast Wars and Movie continuity. Oh, and reprint series. --[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 11:18, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
:Update: HOS and movie issues are done.--[[User:MistaTee|MistaTee]] 16:46, 1 April 2009 (EDT)

== Current status of the wiki ==

So, at the moment how are we? I have read all of this page but I'm still not sure what exactly is left to do at the moment (IE how many pages have we lost, how close are we to being back to normal, what is the extent of the damage to pages etc etc) P.S. how much space does the wiki take up (I'd prefer to have images and articles seperately) because I thought that maybe toghether we could all back up the wiki on our computers (as in we each get a little bit of it). P.P.S. I'll probably be registering soon, any ideas on a good name? [[Special:Contributions/81.108.237.26|81.108.237.26]] 11:25, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
:So far as I can tell, the lost pages, at least in the main article space, has been minimal.  It's hard to tell, but if I had to make a guess, I'd say we had maybe 1/4 to 1/5th of the articles left to fix.
:The Help and Transformers Wiki article spaces, we have caches of, but I don't think they've been updated.
:There still seem to be a few pictures missing, but not many.  Maybe 1 or 2%.  Actually ''finding'' which ones are missing is the trick. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:08, 2 April 2009 (EDT)

== Big Sweep 2.0 ==

Deceptitran's ''first'' big sweep is done.  The Wikia links are (mostly) excised.

Prep now begins for a second sweep-- Scout has dome some prep-stuff that'll let me target Deceptitraan better, as well as giving it a more complete page list-- yay!

===What's Broken===
What's broken?  What templates are still mangled HTML you want [[User:Deceptitran]] to try and fix?  Provide a page link showing the broken code, and say what template you want it to turn into, and I'll take a poke at the coding, yes? -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 19:00, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

Generally replace '''<nowiki>&amp;#39;</nowiki>''' with '''<nowiki>'</nowiki>''' and '''<nowiki>&amp;amp;</nowiki>''' with '''<nowiki>&</nowiki>'''. Templates follow in their own sections... - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 19:41, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

:There are a handful of pages where this might be inadvisable... I'm thinking of cueing the substitution only if it finds <tt>&amp;lt;table</tt> or <tt>&amp;lt;div</tt> on the page as a safety catch. <small>—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:Derik|DEEERRRIIKKKKK!!!]] ([[User talk:Derik|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Derik|contribs]]).</small>

::Makes sense to an extent - but the 39s seem to be everywhere.
::[I'm also not sure I caught all the stub-templates below, FTR] - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 21:55, 31 March 2009 (EDT)

:::Seems to be that <nowiki>&amp;#39;</nowiki> occurs mostly in captions on images, if that helps.  I believe that all of the ongoing, canceledtoy, bigquote, charstubfiction, charstubtoys and charstub templates have been dealt with.  From searching it looks like there are still around 200 picsneeded and 370 stub tags to get fixed.  Deceptitran's work in converting the escaped HTML will at least make them look normal in the meantime though. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:26, 5 April 2009 (EDT)

====<nowiki>{{charstubfiction}}</nowiki>====
Rendered as the following on [[Soundwave (G1)]]:

&lt;center&gt;
&lt;table cellspacing="0" style="width:80%;"&gt;

&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="padding:0 1em 0 1em;text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;div class="tti_messageboxdiv" style="width:100%;padding:.5em; background-color:#efefff; border:solid 1px #9f9fff;text-align:center;margin:auto;"&gt;[[Image:Rad-sm.gif|left|93px|No, really.  HE WANTS TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE TRANSFORMERS.]]
&lt;span style="font-size:125%;font-weight:900;"&gt;I want to tell you about the Transformers!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;
''This character article is a [[:Category:Character stubs missing fiction|stub]] and is missing information on their '''fictional appearances'''. You can help '''Transformers Wiki''' by [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Soundwave_%28G1%29&amp;action=edit expanding it].''


&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/center&gt;

Also places in <nowiki>[[Category:Character stubs missing fiction]]</nowiki>, which the import script adds to the list of categories at the bottom, and which should be removed.

====<nowiki>{{ongoing}}</nowiki>====
Rendered as the following on [[Soundwave (G1)]]:

&lt;table cellspacing="0" border="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"&gt;

&lt;tr bgcolor="#ececec"&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10px;line-height:1;"&gt;This section covers fiction that is '''ongoing'''.  It will be added to as the story progresses. If it isn't current, you can help by &lt;span class="plainlinks"&gt;[http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Soundwave_%28G1%29&amp;action=edit updating it]&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

====<nowiki>{{picsneeded}}</nowiki>====
[[Arcee (G1)]] has:

&lt;center&gt;
&lt;table cellspacing="0" style=""&gt;

&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="padding:0 1em 0 1em;text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;div class="tti_messageboxdiv" style="width:100%;padding:.5em; background-color:#efefff; border:solid 1px #9f9fff;text-align:center;margin:auto;"&gt;[[Image:PicsNeeded.gif|left|80px|They&#39;re actually both looking for characterization.]]
&lt;span style="font-size:125%;font-weight:900;"&gt;Let's see what you can see...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;
This article is in need of images.


&lt;/div&gt;&lt;small&gt;'''Specifics:''' some toys&lt;/small&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/center&gt;

<nowiki>[[Category:Articles in need of images]]</nowiki> to remove

====<nowiki>{{canceledtoy}}</nowiki> (FIX'D)====
<strike>Another [[Arcee (G1)]]:

&lt;center&gt;
&lt;table cellspacing="0" style=""&gt;

&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="padding:0 1em 0 1em;text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;div class="tti_messageboxdiv" style="width:100%;padding:.5em; background-color:#efefff; border:solid 1px #9f9fff;text-align:center;margin:auto;"&gt;[[Image:Unicron-canceled.png|left|100px|Your bargaining posture is highly dubious.]]
'''Proceed on your way to oblivion.'''&lt;br /&gt;''This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.''


&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/center&gt;

<nowiki>[[Category:Unreleased toys]]</nowiki> to remove</strike>

====<nowiki>{{quote}}</nowiki>/<nowiki>{{bigquote}}</nowiki>====
From [[Dinobot (G1)]]:

&lt;table align="center" style="border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td width="20" valign="top" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;padding:9px 10px 0 10px;"&gt; “
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td valign="top" style="padding:4px 10px 5px 10px;font-family: &#39;lucida console&#39;, arial, sans-serif;"&gt; Crash and Burn!
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td width="20" valign="bottom" style="color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family:&#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif;font-weight:bold;text-align:right;padding:10px 10px 0px 10px;"&gt; ”
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td colspan="3" style="padding-top: 0"&gt; &lt;p style="font-size:smaller;line-height:1em;text-align: right"&gt;&lt;cite style="font-style:normal;"&gt;—Dinobot unit motto, [[Maximum Dinobots]]&lt;/cite&gt;

&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

====<nowiki>{{charstub}}</nowiki>====
From [[Dinobot (G1)]]:

&lt;center&gt;
&lt;table cellspacing="0" style="width:90%;"&gt;

&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="padding:0 1em 0 1em;text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;div class="tti_messageboxdiv" style="width:100%;padding:.5em; background-color:#efefff; border:solid 1px #9f9fff;text-align:center;margin:auto;"&gt;[[Image:AniMegsHeadStub.jpg|left|100px|You will be whole again.  I promise.]]
&lt;span style="font-size:125%;font-weight:900;"&gt;I cannot remain in this unacceptable operational status!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;
''This character article is a [[:Category:Character stubs|stub]] and is missing information. You can help '''Transformers Wiki''' by [http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Dinobot_%28G1%29&amp;action=edit expanding it].''


&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/center&gt;

Places in <nowiki>[[Category:Character stubs]]</nowiki>

====<nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki>====
Example: [[Brasnya]]

&lt;center&gt;
&lt;table cellspacing="0" style="width:90%;"&gt;

&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="padding:0 1em 0 1em;text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;div class="tti_messageboxdiv" style="width:100%;padding:.5em; background-color:#efefff; border:solid 1px #9f9fff;text-align:center;margin:auto;"&gt;[[Image:Kup_piece.gif|left|125px|Kup piece.gif]]
&lt;span style="font-size:125%;font-weight:900;"&gt;You left a piece out!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;
''This article is a [[:Category:Stub|stub]] and is missing information. You can help '''Transformers Wiki''' by &lt;span class="plainlinks"&gt;[http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Brasnya&amp;action=edit expanding it]&lt;/span&gt;.''


&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/center&gt;

Places in <nowiki>[[Category:Stub]]</nowiki>
====Wikipedia links?====
Can Deceptitran do anything with Wikipedia links? Perhaps not, since there is a lot of variation. - [[User:Starfield|Starfield]] 23:01, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
<br/><br/>
&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusters_%28US_game_show%29" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Blockbusters_(US_game_show)"&gt;quiz show&lt;/a&gt;
<br/><br/>
<nowiki>[[wikipedia:Blockbusters_(US_game_show)|quiz show]]</nowiki>

:At this point, should we fix those tags as we come across them, or just wait for the bot to do the work of repairing them? [[User:Magnusblitz|Magnusblitz]] 00:05, 31 March 2009 (EDT)
::IMO, I would think it'd be more productive to do other things instead of something that Deceptitran will eventually do anyway. Of course, that's looking at it purely from an efficiency standpoint.--[[User:Tigerpaw28|Tigerpaw28]] 01:04, 31 March 2009 (EDT)
:::Deceptitran doesn't appear to have done particularly well with the remaining Wikipedia links - all it's done is convert the &amp;lt;/&amp;gt;s to &lt; and &gt;s. Since <nowiki><a></nowiki> tags don't render - to do a working link, it MUST be rendered in wikicode - that's not much of an improvement. - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 09:05, 5 April 2009 (EDT)

===Go-boxes===
Can someone take a look at them? Currently, [[:Image:GB-Sunstreaker.jpg]] needs to be re-uploaded and [[:Image:GB-WolfangPred.jpg|Image:GB-WolfangPred.jpg]] leads to Wolfang (BWTS) which doesn't exist (Correct one would be [[Wolfang (Predacon)]]. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 04:59, 1 April 2009 (EDT)
:Both fixed! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 23:33, 1 April 2009 (EDT)

===Sweep status===
Sweet #2 has ended-- it does less than I'd hoped (the regex's were consistently being annoying greedy) but all the <nowiki>{{canceledtoy}}</nowiki>s are fixed (which i figure is important because they represent a permenant article fixture) and all the garbage HTML has been converted to ''real'' HTML-- which means pages will at least start ''looking'' right, even if they're not properly templated under the skin.  I'm currently running a sweep to get rid of our remaining Wikia spam (~4000 instances hiding in redirects) after which I'll tackle setting up a sweep for some of the other templates.  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 21:35, 5 April 2009 (EDT)
:I think something the next sweep may have to do is fix ''all'' the remaining links - even if it entails, as you suggested before, ripping them apart and putting them back together as something like a bare <nowiki><a href="LINK">Text</a></nowiki> so that the converter can do them properly. There's still a few, and they're one of the only HTML tags that don't render (presumably as an anti-spam thing). - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 23:21, 5 April 2009 (EDT)

== Article lock down so anons can't edit them ==

Since the crash, articles that were set so only registered members could edit them have once again become free-for-all. For example, [[Revenge of the Fallen (film)]] and our Main Page both appear to be editable by anybody (I don't see a warning about only registered users being able to make edits for those pages). Perhaps a staff member can change the settings for such articles to save us some headaches in the future? Honestly, I'm surprised if it hasn't been done yet. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 03:41, 2 April 2009 (EDT)
:Sorted. I'm sure there are others which ought to be protected which have been overlooked. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:11, 2 April 2009 (EDT)
::Thanks. Can somebody lock down [[All Hail Megatron]] as well? I'd rather not have anon apologists for that series muck about with our discrepancy list. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 15:13, 3 April 2009 (EDT)

== MIA? ==

[[Super Ginrai Gets Blown Away in the Desert!?]] and [[The Autobot Warrior, Sixknight?!]] don't appear to be among the cache files we saved.  MSN has both cached, although the versions are from late January and are pretty much the same as what we have... --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:48, 4 April 2009 (EDT)
:Odd, thought I saved it in my cache. That, or Jeysie hasn't updated the additional cache I sent her... --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 05:58, 5 April 2009 (EDT)
::The zip I have of your cache files has Masterforce episode 1, 13, 17, 18, 28 and 42 in it. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 06:01, 5 April 2009 (EDT)
:::Crap, I forgot I hadn't uploaded that already. Uploaded and linked from the Files section above. --[[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]] 07:10, 5 April 2009 (EDT)
::::Ahh! Excellent!  I should check the other shows and see if there are any other episodes which didn't get updated. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 08:04, 5 April 2009 (EDT)
:OK, having checked all of the cartoon episodes (or at least the ones [[User:Interrobang|Interrobang]] hasn't got to yet), ''all'' of them have been updated from cache.  The only issues I could see were (a) some of the [[Beast Wars II (cartoon)|Beast Wars II]] episodes are missing bits of HTML, causing the body of the page to render as part of the episode box (e.g. [[Enter Lio Junior]]), and (b) one or two of the Headmasters/Masterforce/Victory episodes have the episodenav template instead of the episode template, and are therefore lacking the Japanese/Romaji titles. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:21, 5 April 2009 (EDT)

== Quotes ==
{{note|This discussion has been moved to [[Transformers Wiki talk:Community Portal#Quotes]].}}

== Clone Pilot? ==

I dunno if this should be discussed in an earlier section, but... I fixed up [[Clone Pilot]] well before the crash, but for some reason, all our saved caches are the same as the old piece of crap we have right now. Did Google just never save it between the cleanup and the crash, or what? More importantly, can it still be repaired somehow? There was a lot of work put into it. --[[User:Apoc|Apoc]] 21:25, 8 April 2009 (EDT)
:It looks like Google didn't update their cache until a couple of days the crash. :(  I can't find the page at all on yahoo or msn. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 22:50, 10 April 2009 (EDT)
::I think we should all start saving major edits onto text files in case of database crashes, google screw ups and the regular server outages we've been having lately. That's what I do. --[[User:FFN|FFN]] 06:12, 12 April 2009 (EDT)

== Damage: Controlled? ==

Have we handled most of the issues concerning the crash?  It has been a month at at casual glance (and even some closer glances), we appear to be back on target.  Is it now necessary to have a link to this page from our main page?  Discussion appears to have stagnated from what I can tell and the most recent conversation is about quotes, which is not crash-related. (As the user who initially brought up the quotes question, I thought at the time the change was crash related.  Now I think it should be delegated to Comm. Portal.)

So should we consider "Mission Accomplished" of all major battles fighting and now just cleanup of insurgent pages? Keep the pages, obviously, but get the link off the main page.  The community has done a good job bringing the wiki back (yeah!) and I'd like to especially thank [[User:Jeysie|Jeysie]], [[User:abates|abates]], [[User:Derik|Derik]], and [[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]] for what to me was above and beyond work. 

Thoughts? --[[User:Bluestreak7|Bluestreak7]] 19:40, 14 April 2009 (EDT)
:I am still finding the occasional borked/codelicious template. Yes, we've gotten the worst of it, but we should still keep an eye out. Does anyone know if there's anything we're still outright missing? I know Monzo was in the process of manually uploading some images.--[[User:Rosicrucian|Rosicrucian]][[User Talk:Rosicrucian|<sup>Talk</sup>]] 19:48, 14 April 2009 (EDT)

::Most of the work to be done now is in restoring descriptions to images, I think, and restoring any missing images as we find them.  I think it's safe to remove it from the main page - it's still linked via the Community portal. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 21:18, 14 April 2009 (EDT)
:::Agreed-- We've still got a lot of templates that've extended to HTML... but they at least no longer ''look'' broken for the most part... I think we can stop advising people they're stepping into a disaster zone. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 21:53, 14 April 2009 (EDT)

:The "Quotes" discussion has now been moved.  Also, a hearty second on the gratitude to everyone who pitched in on the restoration.  It's looking damn good. - [[User:Jackpot|Jackpot]] 03:33, 16 April 2009 (EDT)


Probably not entirely related damage control-wise, but I kinda miss the ability to "View (newer <# of edits>) (older <# of edits>)" in the Recent Changes page. It only goes up to the last 500 changes. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 04:27, 25 April 2009 (EDT)

== Episode articles missing Japanese title info ==

'''Headmasters:''' <strike>[[Head Formation of Friendship]]</strike>

'''Masterforce:''' <strike>[[Super Warriors - The Godmaster Brothers]]</strike>, <strike>[[The Autobot Warrior, Sixknight?!]]</strike>,
<strike>[[Overlord - Terror of the Chōkon Tornado]]</strike>

'''Victory:''' <strike>[[Big City - Underground Terror]]</strike>, <strike>[[Attack the Shuttle Base!!]]</strike>, <strike>[[Rescue Jean!!]]</strike>, <strike>[[Battle Up of Wrath!!]]</strike>

Those episodes are all using the episodenav template and therefore are missing the Japanese title information.  Also <strike>[[Savage (episode)]]</strike> from ''Cybertron'' is missing the romaji transliteration. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 08:03, 15 April 2009 (EDT)

:And done. --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 01:24, 16 April 2009 (EDT)
::Excellent! Thanks! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 01:37, 16 April 2009 (EDT)

Some more from Masterforce which got upgraded but don't have the romaji translation filled in:
*<strike>[[A Fierce Battle!! The Autobots Are in Trouble]]</strike>
*<strike>[[A Strange Friendship: Cancer and Minerva]]</strike>
--[[User:Abates|abates]] 06:38, 17 April 2009 (EDT)
:Doink! --[[User:Lonegamer78|Lonegamer78]] 07:41, 17 April 2009 (EDT)
::Hooray! --[[User:Abates|abates]] 07:53, 17 April 2009 (EDT)

== GFDL ==

Something I've been wondering for a while now... after the loss of all the page history between the move and the crash, are we in breach of the [[Project:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License|GDFL]], which everything originally submitted to this wiki is licensed under? - [[User:SanityOrMadness|SanityOrMadness]] 18:23, 17 April 2009 (EDT)

:Yes, unfortunately. Though whether anyone actually cares is another matter. [[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]] 16:08, 27 April 2009 (EDT)
:Howso?  The attribution part?  I think our import memos all say 'importing recovered...' etc, which at least ''acknowledges'' that there are undocumented contributions at work there-- it's not like we're trying to pass them off as the sole work of the person doing the import.
:GFDL is a difficult concept on mass-collaboration projects like this.  If we'd done a 'present page state only' export from Wikia instead of a complete history we'd be in exactly the same position.  I ''think'' that intent plays a part here... loving some author attribution is definitely non-ideal under GFDL... but I don't think it's actually ''in violation'' as long as we're open about it and it represents a ''breach'' of the normal way things are done rather than a matter of routine. -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 06:12, 28 April 2009 (EDT)
::We're talking about a legal license here. Sections 4B and 4J are quite clear. You must list at least five of the principal authors, unless they release you from that requirement, and you must preserve the history. The only people who could call you on this are the copyright holders, however.
::On that note, now that [[metawikipedia:Licensing update/Result|Wikipedia's moving to CC]], have you given thought to doing the same? Might save a lot of bother down the line. [[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]] 22:37, 21 May 2009 (EDT)

== Restoring Help/Transformers Wiki pages ==

Do the following articles (not currently present) need to be restored?:

*[[Help:Ignore all standards]]
*[[Help:Timelines is not a continuity family]]
*Transformers Wiki:Power User
*Transformers Wiki:Semantic linking initiative
*Transformers Wiki:To-do (It's served its purpose?)
*Transformers Wiki:WikiProject Movie characters (The cache is from January, so I don't know how out-of-date it is)

Also we now have [[Help:Disambiguation]] and [[Transformers Wiki:Disambiguation]].  I think the former is the redundant one, since there's no cache for it. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 04:24, 28 April 2009 (EDT)

Power User at least not. That one was deleted for being an unused short page of information regarding an editing trick that was far better explained on [[Help:Editing]]. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 05:56, 28 April 2009 (EDT)
:P.S. it seems to me the TW:D is the redundant one, given how many pages link to it (vs. the H:D) and because of its talk page. [[User:Geewunling|Geewunling]] 06:06, 28 April 2009 (EDT)
::I think only the first two need restoring.  Do we have caches for them?  -[[User:Derik|Derik]] 06:14, 28 April 2009 (EDT)
:::Yep, I have caches for all of those from the zip file Scout provides. --[[User:Abates|abates]] 06:30, 28 April 2009 (EDT)