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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
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.
First of all do it better, only then faster
Please always have in mind that reeal power of any documentation is in USEABILITY and RELIABLE CONTENT and how user friendly it is. But not in how fast it was written or how big it is, even if many users claims they are waiting for it. If they will find it is useless they will just leave, even the Shareaza at all. Quality of wiki is the strongest tool in Shareaza marketing. Respect users and others working on wiki.
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. Of course in more and more cases it will be more practical to merge recovered content with existing one.
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.
Comments at recovered pages
Recovered pages should begin with the RecoveredPage template.
Please, if you can, decribe there what is date recovered content, at what date it was edited in lost wiki. Do not leave a date if you are unsure of it, false date is worse then no date. This helps other ppl in work on recovery.
If you think the whole content of page was recovered please mention this, prefereably with date of last edit in lost wiki.
You may wish to write something like:
 Recovered |
The following content has been recovered from <recovery source>. Some content may be outdated, incomplete, inaccurate, or improperly formatted. | e |
You can also use this template to add comments within the page content such as:
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 of page or in template RecoveredPage. This is date of last edition in sabotaged wiki. This is not a date of last edit in current page which is added automaticly by current wiki at the footer of any page.
Language 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
Merging additional/new content
If a content missed in recevered page has been found, especially when in recovery template is written that this particular page has been recovered, then this content ought to be merged in the same way when writting an article.
This is more precisely described in this thread URGENT HELP in RECOVER SHAREAZA RESOURCES NEEDED NOW!! Sources are copies pages grabbed from any aviable internet service cache like eg. Google, Yahoo etc. Grabbed of course by Shareaza volunteers.
How you can help (remember: this is open source project)
The biggest problem we are facing right now is that the people who have the files do not have the time or they are not making them properly available(dead links). For this reason was set up a site where everyone can upload and download these files as they please. Everyone who has anything please take the time to upload it at http://sure-raza.com/backups/ If you do not yet have access to the shareaza wiki and you want to help then please PM at forum to Cyko who will gladly give anyone edit permissions (sourceforge forces us to give edit permissions individually, but it doesn't take long).
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.
Timeline
Jul 19, 2009 - new language templates created and implemented. Edited 150+ pages ( Cyko 01 )