Geocities Rescue links

[arduinna]

It's starting to get down to the wire on rescuing Geocities pages -- I think the purge has already started, given some pages I suddenly can't find -- and there's a staggering amount that hasn't been done yet.

So I thought maybe it would be good to have a post where people could at least leave links to Geocities pages, maybe with a very short description of what they are, so wiki editors would have a starting place. (Links to screencaps of existing pages would also be awesome, so those could be uploaded to Fanlore later, but that would be icing.)

That way, even if not everything gets done, we have a chance of being able to find these pages on the Wayback Machine later -- once we lose the links, we've lost our chance.

I'm already starting to see this:

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OOPS. ALmost got it, but not quite.

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

Old dog, new tricks...

1. I'll worry about my own site tomorrow.
2. I've figured out how to screencap, I've downloaded a complete archive of the second Auron/Lulu site I mentioned above, and I've created a Fanlore page for it: http://fanlore.org/wiki/AuLu_(Geocities_Fansite)

Problem: When I created an internal wiki link to that entry from here:
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_X/Auron/Lulu
the link shows extraneous brackets, like this: [| AuLu]. I think the parentheses in the title are causing problems.

Which means I need to change AuLu_(Geocities_Fansite) to AuLu_Geocities_Fansite. Have I screwed up? I don't see a way to rename an article.

(I can't just title the Wiki entry AuLu, because there's a totally separate Livejournal Community by that name, and it makes no sense to use the Wiki entry for a dead site instead of an active one.)

Re: OOPS. ALmost got it, but not quite.

[arduinna]

Oh, woot! That's fantastic, and you named it exactly right. \o/

No worries on the link; it's just a formatting thing. Internal links need to have the http:/fanlore.org part left off, so it's just the name. I've just fixed it, so now the link goes to [[AuLu (Geocities Fansite)]] and works just fine. (Internal links work better with spaces than with underscores. Confusing, but true.)

(If you ever do need to rename a page, you have to leave a note for the gardeners; they're the only ones who can do that. You leave a note by using the AttentionGardeners template on the page you want moved, with a note explaining what you want done.)

Re: OOPS. ALmost got it, but not quite.

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

D'oh! Forgot. This was my first day creating Wiki entries, so I'm still getting the code down. Thanks for the fix!

I've now transferred http://www.geocities.com/auronlu (my own fandom site) to:
http://auronlu.istad.org/aulu-shrine

I'll create a Fanlore entry for that site too, then enter both of 'em in the Big List.

Thank you for providing all these resources!