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> So why can’t we put a read-only archive online currently? > The Wiki, even in it’s read-only state, was presenting security risks, and it was deemed necessar
by richardboegli 7y ago
> So why can’t we put a read-only archive online currently?
> The Wiki, even in it’s read-only state, was presenting security risks, and it was deemed necessary to take it offline.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-and-releases/1739154-changes-to-the-official-unreal-engine-wiki/page2#post1739689 https://forums.unrealengine.com/unreal-engine/announcements-...
- treve 7y agoSeems like a poor excuse. You can make a read-only version of a Wiki without running wiki software. Just mirror the HTML. At the very least they could have made this open source
- toomuchtodo 7y agoIt would’ve been trivial to crawl the forum and dump the resulting WARC files into the Wayback machine to provide a permanent archive. This is just apathetic laziness on their part. https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/grab-site
- jsjddbbwj 7y agoPretty sure the wayback machine already has a full archive
- toomuchtodo 7y agoI haven’t enumerated all of the Wayback captures for the forum yet, so I can’t speak to how recent and complete the archive of the forum is.