Talk:GuildWars.com news

Start fresh or what
Are we going to add older news posts here aswell? | Chuiu 17:29, 21 April 2006 (CDT)


 * The answer depends entirely on whether we can find a chump person bored enough to do the dredgework. 17:30, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Or a bot that reads stuff from the official website and writes to the wiki? Not that I'm advocating for adding the olds d-:  I'm currently neutral on whether we should do it or not. -PanSola 17:35, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * I think we should backfill at least to the beginning of this month. --Rainith 17:36, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Already in the process of writing the damn bot, since it seems like I'm the only botmistress around these parts. 17:36, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Dredge work or drudge work? Seriously though, I think we should try to collect back to the start of April. --161.88.255.140 17:38, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * The pun there was intentional. 17:41, 21 April 2006 (CDT)
 * Doh! I was getting ready to do it myself.  I don't really do things like this by hand I use regular expressings to find/replace tags and what not to wiki formats. | Chuiu 17:45, 21 April 2006 (CDT)

Bot status: very highly irritating. No two news archive pages use the same format, and the format often varies within the same archive page. Thse news archives were clearly created by hand instead of automatically from some database. I don't think this is automatable without a lot more gruntwork. Better to do them by hand and not go all the way back to March 2003, I think. 19:13, 21 April 2006 (CDT)


 * I have pulled in everything upto May 2005, which clears all the red links from the GuildWars.com news page itself. I'll also do the April 2005 news posts, which will take us up to the release date of GWP. I seriously don't see any purpose in going further back than that, but it's up to the community. 07:45, 22 April 2006 (CDT)