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What followed was a long process of recovering article text from Google, Yahoo and MSN caches, reuploading and reformatting them, all of this amid ongoing server problems manifesting as intermittent downtime. After several long months, the restoration was more or less complete. In late May of 2009, the Transformers Wiki was moved to another new server on Slicehost. Lingering teething problems were soon fixed, and the Wiki began preparing for the release of ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' in cinemas. Despite downtime from the flood of traffic created by the movie, the wiki reached a total of 9000 articles just four days after the movie's opening. | What followed was a long process of recovering article text from Google, Yahoo and MSN caches, reuploading and reformatting them, all of this amid ongoing server problems manifesting as intermittent downtime. After several long months, the restoration was more or less complete. In late May of 2009, the Transformers Wiki was moved to another new server on Slicehost. Lingering teething problems were soon fixed, and the Wiki began preparing for the release of ''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' in cinemas. Despite downtime from the flood of traffic created by the movie, the wiki reached a total of 9000 articles just four days after the movie's opening. | ||
On December 14, 2009, the Transformers Wiki celebrated [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Press_release:_TFwiki.net_reaches_10,000_articles reaching 10,000 articles]. In February of 2010, members of the Wiki were invited to Hasbro's fan day at the [http:// | On December 14, 2009, the Transformers Wiki celebrated [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Press_release:_TFwiki.net_reaches_10,000_articles reaching 10,000 articles]. In February of 2010, members of the Wiki were invited to Hasbro's fan day at the [Career Blogs|http://www.careersay.com/]. Not long after, an auction for a rare toy catalog from the 80s led the Wiki and fan site the AllSpark to [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=67034 cooperate in a fundraising drive] to, not only raise the money to purchase the catalog, but to go on and donate money to Hasbro Children's Hospital. The pages of the toy catalog were subsequently placed online for all to enjoy. A similar feat was achieved in November when a number of [http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=74385 behind-the-scenes documents] from the 80s Transformers cartoon were similarly auctioned, and many of the documents were successfully secured, scanned and made available to all. | ||
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