There's [url=
http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/SNES/ZeldaALinkToThePast.html]7[/url] GameResourcepagesthat [url=
http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/PSX/CrashBandicoot.html]are empty,[/url] and I've made most of them... Time to fix that. I'll try my best to add useful information to these pages, and learn about said games along the way, I'll post my progress here, so I don't have to rely on said pages or the IRC.
Not only this, but this is also a good chance to update the pages that haven't been updated for years, such as Ocarina of Time, Mario 64, among others so the Game Resources section of the site really gets the cleanup it needs.
It will be a difficult task since I have TAS projects, I have a schedule for making YT videos and also my limited time using the PC, but I hope it will be worth it. Also hoping to make Nach proud by doing this.
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Considering those 6 that you have done had no content on them for almost 2 years, the 7th which wasn't made by you was only a year (Paper Mario 64, created by Malleoz).
The most illogical one was how the Crash Bandicoot one was set up. It was set up as a Crash Bandicoot 1 to 3. What?
Each Crash Bandicoot game runs differently from one another, I'll explain to you what you could've done, separate each of the Crash games, and force me to do it or alternately splice off pirohiko's information from the two Crash Games he TASed. Crash 1 | Crash 2
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Whatever you do, please do not create any Game Resources page without any meaningful content (that includes pages with just "todo"s). They do nothing but falsely give the impression on the main Game Resources page that we have information about a particular game or series when we actually do not. This is why I deleted that list of pages yesterday.
Only create a Game Resources page when you have meaningful information to put in it.
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I would personally leave them empty/deleted until someone with in-depth knowledge comes forward and offers to start filling them in. It'll take a lot of work and experience to really fill out each page to an acceptable level.
I do wish that more people would take care of the Game Resources in general. Hopefully we can convince some people to restart and populate the recently deleted pages.
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Not related to what's been said before me... but:
There are some images shown on Game resource pages that are hosted externally. Those images should be hosted on the site server instead to prevent them from getting lost in the future.
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Not related to what's been said before me... but:
There are some images shown on Game resource pages that are hosted externally. Those images should be hosted on the site server instead to prevent them from getting lost in the future.
While I agree, I'm not sure how would one replace them if let's say, the image taker noticed a mistake, but doesn't have permission to replace the pic. Is there some system/policy for this?
Some images in the Castlevania page are not hosted on the site, too.
http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/NES/Castlevania.html
The ones in the "Misc. tricks" tab and the two images used for the hunchbacks on the "Enemies" tab.
I briefly skimmed through some of the linked pages above again and it looks like nothing has been done about images that are hosted externally. Nobody even removed the content that was lost.
If nobody does anything, then I might as well do it myself. But I need the ability to upload images to tasvideos' server. How can I receive it?
EDIT:
This is not a sufficient solution. Sometimes images cannot be retrieved. Additionally you have to manually check each page regularly to make sure the images are intact since broken images don't fix themselves via waybackmachine.
Please do something to make the wiki a better place that will last for more than 2 years.
I briefly skimmed through some of the linked pages above again and it looks like nothing has been done about images that are hosted externally. Nobody even removed the content that was lost.
If nobody does anything, then I might as well do it myself. But I need the ability to upload images to tasvideos' server. How can I receive it?
EDIT:
This is not a sufficient solution. Sometimes images cannot be retrieved. Additionally you have to manually check each page regularly to make sure the images are intact since broken images don't fix themselves via waybackmachine.
Please do something to make the wiki a better place that will last for more than 2 years.
You quote me on that but you didn't quote everything:
<mugg3> spikeymuffin, yeah that worked out fine for this image http://tasvideos.org/3250S.html
<mugg3> I would like to be safe than sorry
<SpikeyMuffin> It's your own fault for using imageshack
<mugg3> and what do you tell people that used photobucket?
<SpikeyMuffin> It's your own fault for using photobucket
<mugg3> and people other than me have used it on the game resource pages
<SpikeyMuffin> etc. etc.
<mugg3> short story: give me rights to upload to the server + I will do the cleanup
<SpikeyMuffin> Same thing happened with people's avatars. Some were recovered.
<mugg3> some but not all?
<SpikeyMuffin> others, deleted.
<mugg3> I want something that will last for more than 2 years
<SpikeyMuffin> Which is why if you wanted to complain about *that*, you'd complain about it 2 years ago.
<mugg3> spikeymuffin if you want you can post your thoughts on the topic so more people can see your standpoint
<SpikeyMuffin> mugg3: I'm lazy tho.
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I don't think using webarchive would be a good idea, since some pages use videos/twitchy, and it does not appear to be archived. Example
https://web.archive.org/web/20150317163306/http://tasvideos.org/GameResources/NES/Contra.html
I'm aware there's no twitch links used, but it was used a lot on another site 2 years ago I edit on for certain citation links and it became problematic once twitch removed them and there were no backup on youtube/waybackmachine. The same problem can happen here for relying on only webarchive for everything.
EDIT:
You quote me on that but you didn't quote everything:
<mugg3> spikeymuffin, yeah that worked out fine for this image http://tasvideos.org/3250S.html
<mugg3> I would like to be safe than sorry
<SpikeyMuffin> It's your own fault for using imageshack
<mugg3> and what do you tell people that used photobucket?
<SpikeyMuffin> It's your own fault for using photobucket
<mugg3> and people other than me have used it on the game resource pages
<SpikeyMuffin> etc. etc.
<mugg3> short story: give me rights to upload to the server + I will do the cleanup
<SpikeyMuffin> Same thing happened with people's avatars. Some were recovered.
<mugg3> some but not all?
<SpikeyMuffin> others, deleted.
<mugg3> I want something that will last for more than 2 years
<SpikeyMuffin> Which is why if you wanted to complain about *that*, you'd complain about it 2 years ago.
<mugg3> spikeymuffin if you want you can post your thoughts on the topic so more people can see your standpoint
<SpikeyMuffin> mugg3: I'm lazy tho.
So your additional points are:
- We should just accept it if some images get deleted
- You are too lazy to care
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MUGG wrote:
So your additional points are:
- We should just accept it if some images get deleted
- You are too lazy to care
No. The additional points you left out that I wrote are.
- We should just accept it if some images get deleted (Yes, that was correct.)
- If you were here 2 years ago when the incident first occurred and you actually still had the images on hand back then on your computer it's your fault if you deleted it between then and now.
- I can't even do that to begin with, so there's no point for me to do anything about it.
- Not my problem.
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- We should just accept it if some images get deleted (Yes, that was correct.)
No, we shouldn't.
- If you were here 2 years ago when the incident first occurred and you actually still had the images on hand back then on your computer it's your fault if you deleted it between then and now.
First, even if the page editor is at fault and didn't save his images, why should that be a reason to present the site visitor with broken/deleted images?
Second, what if the page editor lost images due to computer or hard drive failure? (That's precisely what happened in my case.)
Even if I could retrieve deleted images from my hard drive, I'd still have to go through the trouble of
a) checking and realizing if images have been deleted to begin with
and b) replacing them.
Those two steps cause a lot of work. It took me like 2~3 hours to compile the list above. Nobody would need to check for broken images if we simply uploaded them to TASvideos' servers.
- I can't even do that to begin with, so there's no point for me to do anything about it.
- Not my problem.
Can't do what, upload images? Care?
Thanks for being very helpful. (/sarcasm)
adelikat said he is too busy to upload those images to the site's server at the moment. Only he or Nach could do that.
If they give me a list with the new URLs, I would volunteer to replace the old URLs.
I got an idea. I'm not sure if it works on other formats, but for gif, jpg, png, etc they can be converted to an url
https://www.abeautifulsite.net/convert-an-image-to-a-data-uri-with-your-browserhttps://www.base64-image.de/
I know it's not the best, but having an extremely long string is at least "storable" here since all you need to do is tell people to "paste this long string onto browser" and they will see the image.
Thoughts?
Edit: The strings are extremely long for gifs. Might make sense to somehow either make a subpage for them, or make some way to "hide" them until clicked.
http://imgur.com/zKaWQSL for example converts to
http://pastebin.com/fip0QdEu
