EQ Legends - P99 Wiki Request

[xmaerx]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Do it late at night and throttle your scraper (even late night folks shouldn't lose access completely).

As long as you do that (ie. as long as you are considerate and thoughtful about how you do it), I doubt anyone will have any issue.

Yep! We would ideally just get a thumbdrive-style clone of the existing wiki db sans logins instead of having to scrape the site at all, which is way easier on the site than either scraping or utilizing the mediawiki export/import functionality (which is the fallback plan).

The main concern was providing credit where it's due for all the work that's gone into the P99 wiki over the years. Taking that approach would retain all of the edit history, including contributors [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Unlike the P99 wiki, it wouldn't be hosted by nor owned by the project. This means we're still free to attribute the efforts of the P99 community, despite the EQLegends project itself clamping all emulator mentions, including P99.

In theory, we will likely chunk things into three baskets: Stuff that we've verified to be applicable to the new server (zones, quests, mob and item lists), stuff that likely is not applicable without some edits (guides, mechanics), sticking a banner at the top making that obvious. And then a third basket that is specific to P99 that we just discard (patch launch timings, install guides, etc) This should give people a clear path to contributing without having to start from scratch.

[WarpathEQ]

The original wiki is effectively dead so I would be most concerned about understanding why it consistently doesn't function and ensuring that any future iteration you build doesn't succumb to the same short comings.