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I think that is because Ward Cunningham wanted to transition to a static site instead of running it old style CGI way. See also: https://github.com/WardCunning

by pkd 10y ago

I think that is because Ward Cunningham wanted to transition to a static site instead of running it old style CGI way. See also: https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling/issues/2 https://github.com/WardCunningham/remodeling/issues/2 http://wardcunningham.github.io/ http://wardcunningham.github.io/

agentgt 10y ago
It appears the root of his problem is an old database in a weird format. If he just gave access (to the DB) I'm sure a fellow githuber / HNer could probably get the database converted correctly for him to some other DB or format. Then again I probably don't fully understand all of the problems.
- zrail 10y ago
  It's not that the database is in a weird format. It's that individual entries have multiple character encodings. The old perl CGI could handle that just fine, but trying to do anything with those files is a pain in the butt, which is why the site was offline in the first place. Ward was attempting to work with a static target instead of a moving target.
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- imode 10y ago
  see my comment floating somewhere in this thread. it took some digging but I managed to grab a dump of every page in JSON. he hid it well but I scraped everything and put it up for people to see (it's in its original markup form, and I'm working on converting it to HTML again.)
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