Geocities retirement brainstorming

[wickedwords]

As most of you know, Geocitites is shutting down. My gut feeling is that there are several articles that are linked to geocities, and we need to document and fix those links. Can everyone help identify where we need to make changes, and add comments to this post about them? Then people who want to look for easy changes to make can go through the list, and either change the links to the wayback machine, or do screencaps, or make the links to alternate sites if possible.

Other thoughts?

Comments

[aethel]

When I search for "geocities" on fanlore, I get 7 results, but that only includes instances where the name appears or the URL is provided raw.

Typing "site:fanlore.org geocities" into Google gets more results.

Typing "site:fanlore.org link:www.geocities.com" into Google gets a few results, but not the results I was expecting.

[aethel]

By which I mean, there ought to be a way to find all the geocities links in Fanlore without going through the whole thing manually, and Google seems a good place to start.

If there isn't a more efficient way, it might be worthwhile to go through the Fanworks Category and check the links to the fanworks in question.

[wickedwords]

Thanks for starting on this! My gut feeling was that there should be more than a few links, but I have no idea what the size of the effort is.

[aethel]

I like brainstorming.
Another way to go about this would be to think of significant rec sites, authors, and archives that are hosted on geocities and then see if they are referenced by name on Fanlore.

For example, a rec'd story I was just reading turned out to be a part of The Kirk Fuh-Q-Fest on Geocities (I don't know how significant this site is), but it doesn't appear to be referenced on Fanlore...

[facetofcathy]

Shouldn't it be possible to search the source code for the links with a bot or a spider or something via the web, if it isn't possible to search the source code from the 'inside' as it were.

From my reading, the link search on google is not supposed to be able to be combined with any other search type, so that's why it's not returning more than 4 hits.