User:Raidarr

I'm a netizen who's been here and there and has some interest in data contingencies, having seen a disaster take place once or twice.

The following (possible) projects appeal to me and, time and interest permitting, I wish to do my part by doing a little archiving and documenting with them based on my experience.

In rough order of personal priority;

• Total War Center - Forum and associated wiki, I expect the wiki to be fairly simple but the forum to be a real PITA and Internet Archive saves for the forum are sparse. The forum started in 2002 and the Wiki has roots in 2006. There are decades of community politics, video game modding & discussion, handcrafted insights from history nerds and other developments. The problem: TWC is operated by an absent, unresponsive owner who may or may not keep the lights on depending when he feels it's no longer worth it. Admins have virtually no contact with him and there are no active technical staff able to maintain things. Software updates are currently impossible. Staff morale is limited. I don't claim TWC is more important than say, Reddit, but of the items in my interest it is both the most exhaustive and has the longest history to preserve. The Wiki is a slightly dated version of MediaWiki and the forum is based on vBulletin 4.2.5.
• PureDiablo/PureDMG - PureDiablo is a site about the Diablo video game series with multiple components: a XenForo forum (connected with the rest of the far smaller PureDMG platform), a wiki for Diablo 2 which I believe is based on custom pages within XenForo, and a MediaWiki site for Diablo 4. All are fairly new and forked from the late Diabloii.net forum (which I believe is irreversibly lost aside from scattered Internet Archive entries) and diablowiki.net (an oldschool Diablo wiki that's fallen out of date and is at risk of being terminated by Icy Veins, the entity that acquired and terminated Diabloii.net). I'm unsure how to format and present all this at this time, probably with DiabloWiki.net as its own page as a priority endangered project (priority relative to this page of course), Diabloii.net as its compliment, and a page with dedicated sections for PureDiablo. PureDMG technically merits its own page as the host for PureDiablo, but it is a frankly not too successful attempt of the Diablo-based community to try and expand the "pure" brand. I'm not sure what the plans are with it but it may be endangered for this reason and tbqh it wouldn't take long to save all non-diablo PureDMG content by hand.
• WikiTide - a recent fork and counterpart to Miraheze. My experience with its operating group and Miraheze itself leads me to believe having this farm shadowed is a wise idea. Same for its premium compliment WikiForge.
• Audiovisual Identity Database - a wiki from Miraheze with extensive logo related information. It specifically is a very major Miraheze wiki with one of the platform's most active local communities and has elected to (eventually) move to the aforementioned WikiForge premium service following recent Miraheze instability. I can probably get my hands on raw dumps of this wiki whenever I want with a few inquiries so this shouldn't be hard to pull off. Given its relative instability as a project and its transition to being more independent, I'd suggest it as a viable page for ArchiveTeam's consideration.
• StrategyGaming - StrategyGaming.com is a fork of Total War Center that just didn't have the stuff to make it as a fork. There is some effort there but for the most part it didn't get off the ground. As one of the people who participated in its initial forking I can tell you that morale in keeping it alive or backed up is incredibly low. I may be able to provide an outline for this otherwise I don't have quite the right access to get a full backup on a good day. Its hosting lapsed and there is some behind the scenes effort to try and recover/get a backup. If this makes progress I'll note it for posterity. I'll definitely make a note if it manages to come online otherwise this may be a lost effort before it started.

Why this list? I can't promise I'll get far with any of these in a timely manner and I'm not so savvy with any of ArchiveTeam's tools. The wikis I can probably bumble through but the forums I'm at a loss. If they strike someone else's interest to work with they shouldn't stop on my account, though I'm happy to provide any native context needed.

I also see an awful lot of existing references to ancient dates and unupdated statuses of things and again, from time to time I may work on these for existing pages.

In general I wish to preserve the projects I work on particularly, even in the case of Miraheze where residents here would no doubt recognize me from. As time permits I may be able to offer 2c on that wiki farm as well though my current account status there makes my options limited.