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Aims of Shareaza Wiki recovery

are following:

recovery as much as possible
reinstate reliable content
prevent content for all system versions against loose it
clean/verify/update wiki content
make wiki better and easier than it was before
make wiki actual documentation for Shareaza

Current Shareaza Wiki content status

Current Shareaza Wiki content consist of last aviable for us backup and recovered pages which are being added one by one. This is backup from 2008 year so it is quite old, however can be useful. You can use it as trusted content, however have in mind it is outdated in many places. We are sorry for that, but the only way to change it is to recover lost Shareaza Wiki pages. Or get it back from person who had sabotaged it, William Shields Erwin, but that would require his good will and cooperation hence we think we can't count on this. Reasons and background are described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareaza.

Rules for recovering

Aim is to place as much of content as possible. If you are going to help in this please try to follow below listed general rules, otherwise we can waste lots of time and reach no effects.

Sources

Shareaza Wiki is recovered from many sources. We recover only our own, by Shareaza community created and owned, content. Unfortunately this also means that the content have to be selected and gathered manually to be useful (bot is useless when no rules can be set), and this make it will take a longer time to obtain effects, as in total there can be even about 5000-6000 unique pages to examine and process them to become Shareaza wiki pages again.

Formatting

Seems in many cases formatting will have to be done again. Plain text is pasted in most cases.

Date of recovered content

Date mentioned in source of recovered page is placed at the end. This is date of last edition in sabotaged wiki.

Reinstated structure

We try to reinstated structure, but please do not use subpages if this is not need. This is very fancy but make much more difficult reading (for users), editing, recovering, and verification (have we recovered all and is it actual content) . Also translating of subpages is more difficult when context is lost, and in many cases subpages are untranslated orphans. Avoid it please, at last during recovery.

Template Usage

The wiki hosted on sourcefroge does not support all the same functions as the old wiki. One example of this is the #if function. The result of this is that the language template used on almost every page is now broken on many pages. In order to fix as many pages as possible with as little work required the following steps are necessary:

1) parser functions have been removed - if a page is not available it will be listed anyways and the link will be red (allowing for the creation of a new page at that location)
2) The page name is now a required parameter - this will make the template work only on the translated pages, but since there are far more translated pages then english pages this is the best method to correct the problem
3) creation of a new "language" template - this is intended to be used only on english pages as it will not support the pagename parameter. This will make it much easier to correct the broken language template on english pages

One thing in one place only, in the whole Wiki

Please take as a general rule "one thing is to be described in one place (page)". If it is needed should be linked with "[ [ name_of_wiki_page ] ]" like in Wikipedia. It will allow to make updates in one place only and will make whole Wiki more actual and easy to use.

Content about older systems

Please do not remove parts about older system versions, they are needed for many users, but add info about newer and mark them as such. Also please do not move it to subpages. Order of versions is following: more actual system related go first. So,first goes: W7 > XP > Me > Win2k > 98. If something is system related point it directly, as users usually when "system" is mentioned think "my system, the one I have", and it could what any system.

Content from last backup

If there was a content from backup at page it has been moved below pasted recovered content for verification purposes. It was indicated with comments.

Comments at recovered pages

Recovered pages have below listed comments. Please use them if you are going to add any recovered content.

At the beginning of recovery content:

At the end of recovered content: <end of recovered content>

List of recovered pages

Recovered pages list

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 We try to reinstated structure, but please do not use subpages if this is not need. This is very fancy but make much more difficult reading (for users), editing, recovering, and verification (have we recovered all and is it actual content) . Also translating of subpages is more difficult when context is lost, and in many cases subpages are untranslated orphans. Avoid it please, at last during recovery.
+===Template Usage===
+The wiki hosted on sourcefroge does not support all the same functions as the old wiki. One example of this is the #if function. The result of this is that the language template used on almost every page is now broken on many pages. In order to fix as many pages as possible with as little work required the following steps are necessary:
+'''1)''' parser functions have been removed - if a page is not available it will be listed anyways and the link will be red (allowing for the creation of a new page at that location)<br>
+'''2)''' The page name is now a required parameter - this will make the template work only on the translated pages, but since there are far more translated pages then english pages this is the best method to correct the problem<br>
+'''3)''' creation of a new "language" template - this is intended to be used only on english pages as it will not support the pagename parameter. This will make it much easier to correct the broken language template on english pages
 ===One thing in one place only, in the whole Wiki===
 Please take as a general rule "one thing is to be described in one place (page)". If it is needed should be linked with "[ [  name_of_wiki_page ] ]" like in Wikipedia. It will allow to make updates in one place only and will make whole Wiki more actual and easy to use.

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