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The Transformers Wiki continued to grow on its new server, reaching 8000 articles on January 24, 2009. One coup for the Wiki was getting the opportunity to take part in Hasbro's bimonthly website Transformers Q&A sessions. Disaster struck, however, on March 15th, when an attempt to upgrade the software caused the corruption of the database and it came out that the regular backups had been failing. The most recent backup — dating from July 2008 — was restored to the site, along with a message linking to Wikia at the bottom of every article (Wikia had begun inserting this message into their database dumps during the discussion of the original move). This event became known as the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki:Bookworm_Crash Bookworm Crash]. In an unfortunate piece of timing, this coincided with the premiere of a new season of the then-current cartoon "Transformers Animated". | The Transformers Wiki continued to grow on its new server, reaching 8000 articles on January 24, 2009. One coup for the Wiki was getting the opportunity to take part in Hasbro's bimonthly website Transformers Q&A sessions. Disaster struck, however, on March 15th, when an attempt to upgrade the software caused the corruption of the database and it came out that the regular backups had been failing. The most recent backup — dating from July 2008 — was restored to the site, along with a message linking to Wikia at the bottom of every article (Wikia had begun inserting this message into their database dumps during the discussion of the original move). This event became known as the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_Wiki:Bookworm_Crash Bookworm Crash]. In an unfortunate piece of timing, this coincided with the premiere of a new season of the then-current cartoon "Transformers Animated". | ||
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. | 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. By June 28th, 2009, the wiki had reached the 9000 article mark, and continues to grow. | ||
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