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Okay, yeah, that's just rude. Obviously trying to copy the body text of a page and all the links is more inconvenient than linking the article. You're not helping any side of the discussion, there.
>silly arguments about wiki being better than a booru
As far as I can see, they're just different means to do the same thing. Neither is intrinsically better, although if other people are actually willing to help tag and sort art in that system, it would be a big advantage.
The only technical difference I think of is that the wiki doesn't actually host the vast majority of the art in its galleries. Anything that uses the {{fanart}} template instead of [[Image]] just redirects to images hosted on the imageboard, rather than hosting them directly. Presumably, art uploaded to a booru would be hosted there (unless we hacked the booru to somehow be directly connected to the imageboard). Not that this really maters, unless we're really desperate for server space.
>The work on the wiki has already been done.
>You lose all the metadata already on the wiki if we transfer
We only lost anything if we attempt a transition in the terribly disorganized fashion we started out. If we get a booru up and running, it wouldn't be hard to slowly migrate existing galleries from the wiki over without loosing the metadata.
Ie, it's easy to keep it 1 to 1 if you only remove images from the wiki once you've made sure they're available on the booru. Move, instead of purge and rebuild.
Honestly, from that keeping-the-stuff orderly standpoint, what I'm leaning towards now is just reversing the edits (except for quests belonging to test, lawyerdog, or anyone else who really objects to porn), waiting for this booru to appear, and then moving the galleries over and linking them and/or editing what's on the wiki down to reasonable selections. I have no problem with a reasonable and orderly transition to a new and/or better system, if and when we get it set up. I have a problem with making a mess.
>because of tireless Dakdo!
Thanks for the compliments (I think?), but I can't really be used as an argument for one system or another. If we had an organized and functional system for sorting images, I'd be happy to carry on the tireless whatever there.
>how much art is actually on the wiki?
Less than half, I think. I've been working through the fanart threads backwards, and I've only gotten as far back as February 2011, or fanart thread 8. And I haven't even pushed all the edits yet- I've got a text file full of sorted stuff waiting for me to get to.
>other people to help tag
Now for that, I would be hella grateful. An encyclopedic knowledge of every character and artist ever to grace the site, I do not have.
>keep Booru tags in sync with wiki namespaces for quest titles
That would certainly be the organized way to do it.
Be nice if somehow the original post ID or post time / date were included as metadata for transferred images. Would make cross referencing for tagging easier, and it would make it possible to sort images by when they were originally posted, rather than the order they were transferred.
>>26278
Don't bother. The porn hole is terrible idea that's not helpful for keeping data on the wiki, or moving it elsewhere, and it's locked, anyways.
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