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:I agree, <del>but I'm not sure about [http://scribblewikiblog.com/scribblewiki-is-shutting-down/ this link]. It is not very informative (now). It seems they removed all the comments from the page.</del> [Update: Actually the link I had in mind was [http://scribblewikiblog.com/downtime/#comments this one], although everything I said about the other page is true of this one. I believe this to be the correct link because I had it in my wiki before the information disappeared.] (I checked archive.org and Google cache and they have excluded the original page from appearing there.) I however have it in me little brain here. The comments showed what they claimed when the service failed. They claimed the data was safe for quite a while before they mentioned anything about a backup service failing. Maybe there was no third-party backup service. Maybe they had their own backups or they could have recovered the data, but they didn't want to bother. But the main issue is that if people had known earlier, they may have recovered more of their wikis articles from Google cache. They kept assuring people that there was nothing to worry about. [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Angela_Beesley_Starling Angela Beesley of Wikipedia/Wikia] actually came to tell people to hurry and get their wikis from Google cache, before they disappeared. I left the following comment tonight, but I'm betting this is just some way of gathering email addresses and site traffic now (notice there are no comments appearing): | :I agree, <del>but I'm not sure about [http://scribblewikiblog.com/scribblewiki-is-shutting-down/ this link]. It is not very informative (now). It seems they removed all the comments from the page.</del> [Update: Actually the link I had in mind was [http://scribblewikiblog.com/downtime/#comments this one], although everything I said about the other page is true of this one. I believe this to be the correct link because I had it in my wiki before the information disappeared.] (I checked archive.org and Google cache and they have excluded the original page from appearing there.) I however have it in me little brain here. The comments showed what they claimed when the service failed. They claimed the data was safe for quite a while before they mentioned anything about a backup service failing. Maybe there was no third-party backup service. Maybe they had their own backups or they could have recovered the data, but they didn't want to bother. But the main issue is that if people had known earlier, they may have recovered more of their wikis articles from Google cache. They kept assuring people that there was nothing to worry about. [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Angela_Beesley_Starling Angela Beesley of Wikipedia/Wikia] actually came to tell people to hurry and get their wikis from Google cache, before they disappeared. I left the following comment tonight, but I'm betting this is just some way of gathering email addresses and site traffic now (notice there are no comments appearing): | ||
:"What happened to all the comments that used to be on this page? Did you have server crash? ;) You know that scribblewiki.com says nothing but 'It works', now. What works exactly?" | :"What happened to all the comments that used to be on this page? Did you have server crash? ;) You know that scribblewiki.com says nothing but 'It works', now. What works exactly?" | ||
:I say we instead link to a page that describes what happened. If none other exists, maybe I will make one from memory. [[User:Lumenos|Lumenos]] | :I say we instead link to a mirror of the original page or (if that can't be found) a link that describes what happened. If none other exists, maybe I will make one from memory. '''If my comment doesn't appear soon, I would say the link constitutes spam, but I wouldn't delete the link''' however, I would just tell people not to bother commenting and post also a link (from my wiki) that describes what they removed from the blog. ScibbleWiki was almost as good as Referata is, before this incident. And at least ScribbleWiki had a place for people to share information about it, but now they are trying to hide what they did, while continuing to profit from advertising; using the popularity their blog has gotten from their loosing the data of many who put too much trust in their service. [[User:Lumenos|Lumenos]] 18:21, 11 August 2009 (EDT) | ||