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The Wiki has been reinstalled - call for editors

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Hiya,

I started the wiki from scratch. It was just too much work to fix it after years of being broken.

Anyone who wants to help recreate and edit it will have to register and I'll have to give you access. This is done in order to stop the spammers who hit the wiki hard!

http://homedistiller.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

I have backed up all the old images to:

http://homedistiller.org/old_wiki_images/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Which hopefully will help getting things back over time.
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Exciting "addition", Uncle Jesse!!
C'mon you experts. Populate this thing!
I'm anxious to read!
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You will have to "request" an account folks. This again is to keep the spammers out.

Don't worry about the "Other information" parts of the account creation process. You'll have to submit 15 words in the "Personal biography" section. Doesn't have to be anything other than 15 words long.
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Uncle Jesse wrote:You will have to "request" an account folks. This again is to keep the spammers out.

Don't worry about the "Other information" parts of the account creation process. You'll have to submit 15 words in the "Personal biography" section. Doesn't have to be anything other than 15 words long.
Sorry UJ, do you have to request an account to view the info as well or just to edit it?
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Swedish Pride wrote:
Uncle Jesse wrote:You will have to "request" an account folks. This again is to keep the spammers out.

Don't worry about the "Other information" parts of the account creation process. You'll have to submit 15 words in the "Personal biography" section. Doesn't have to be anything other than 15 words long.
Sorry UJ, do you have to request an account to view the info as well or just to edit it?
shouldn't, no, but since there's no info there we need editors.
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When registering for an account:

Database error
A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.[WZWtKq6IYGsAAE2IIdkAAAAA] 2017-08-17 14:50:18: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError"

And thanks for doing all the work to get the Wiki back. You're too good to us.
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Single Malt Yinzer wrote:When registering for an account:

Database error
A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.[WZWtKq6IYGsAAE2IIdkAAAAA] 2017-08-17 14:50:18: Fatal exception of type "Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError"

And thanks for doing all the work to get the Wiki back. You're too good to us.

I'll look at this tonight. Thanks!
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Please try to register again!
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Hi Jesse,

I'm a relative noob here, but I am a professional writer and editor so I could probably bring some value.

I think the wiki idea is excellent, because my problem with learning from scratch via the the forum was the somewhat disorganized nature of it. Having a coherent 'consensus' document linked to the forum would fantastic for other noobs.

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DavidR wrote:Having a coherent 'consensus' document linked to the forum would fantastic for other noobs.
...would be fantastic...
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DavidR wrote:Hi Jesse,

I'm a relative noob here, but I am a professional writer and editor so I could probably bring some value.

I think the wiki idea is excellent, because my problem with learning from scratch via the the forum was the somewhat disorganized nature of it. Having a coherent 'consensus' document linked to the forum would fantastic for other noobs.

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MichiganCornhusker wrote:
DavidR wrote:Having a coherent 'consensus' document linked to the forum would fantastic for other noobs.
...would be fantastic...
I set myself up for that. Hoisted with my own petard. :lol:
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I figured out how to confirm account requests!
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Here is what it used to look like...

http://web.archive.org/web/201203080408 ... /Main_Page
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Ok folks, I've restored a few pages by going to the wayback/internet archive site, selecting a page, clicking "view source" and cutting/pasting it into the new wiki...

Pretty simple. Of course, images will be another issue.
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Some of the wayback pages don't have the source, which sucks.

Anyone think they can use this:

http://web.archive.org/web/200906210936 ... rohibition

To recreate this:

http://homedistiller.org/wiki/index.php/Prohibition

?

I already uploaded Prescription.jpg

Time for bed here. But I recreated quite a few pages in the wiki.
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I figured it out.

In case anyone else actually helps me tackle this, use http://homedistiller.org/wiki/index.php/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow on the wayback machine, not http://homedistiller.org/wiki/index.php/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Source showed up and I restored it.
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As a newcomer to this site, I would like to do my part and help out. I'm not sure how much help I'd really be seeing as I'm pretty green to this hobby as well, but I'd be willing to do what I can.
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Tagged. I have a working account now and will be happy to help. I'm traveling for the next couple of weeks, but will jump in when I get a chance.
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FlintHills wrote:As a newcomer to this site, I would like to do my part and help out. I'm not sure how much help I'd really be seeing as I'm pretty green to this hobby as well, but I'd be willing to do what I can.
Anyone can help. If you aren't yet an accomplished distiller, you can help with routine edits - spelling, grammar, logical flow.

We need that as much as we need folks to fact/error check the info.

I have restored a couple hundred pages I'd bet, along with a bunch of images.
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Tried to register, keeps saying my biography isn't long enough ?.
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googe wrote:Tried to register, keeps saying my biography isn't long enough ?.

Has to be 15 words. Just put in random stuff. It's not important what it says.
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Uncle Jesse wrote:
FlintHills wrote:As a newcomer to this site, I would like to do my part and help out. I'm not sure how much help I'd really be seeing as I'm pretty green to this hobby as well, but I'd be willing to do what I can.
Anyone can help. If you aren't yet an accomplished distiller, you can help with routine edits - spelling, grammar, logical flow.

We need that as much as we need folks to fact/error check the info.

I have restored a couple hundred pages I'd bet, along with a bunch of images.
Sounds like something I can do, I'll get registered :thumbup:
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Uncle Jessse,
I received the email asking me to confirm my email, which I did. I never received another with a password?
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I saw a lemma I really wanted to edit.
A certain Erwin (I spuppose Erwin Croissant) said some things about Holland. But Holland is only a small (and rather insignificant) part of the Netherlands. And what is more: I have an article of a lawyer which shows in layterms what the rules and practice are.

But I could not yet find an entrance.
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Kareltje wrote:I saw a lemma I really wanted to edit.
A certain Erwin (I spuppose Erwin Croissant) said some things about Holland. But Holland is only a small (and rather insignificant) part of the Netherlands. And what is more: I have an article of a lawyer which shows in layterms what the rules and practice are.

But I could not yet find an entrance.

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