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[The_J]

Okay, short update: Besides some minor issues the logic and code for moving all the posts which could be identified via the internet archive is working.
Second challenge now lies in identifying the rest and where they should go. A mixture of time stamps of the posts and the users should make it possible to separate that for a good part, I would think. Will be an ugly hack though.

 

[Finwickle]

Okay, short update: Besides some minor issues the logic and code for moving all the posts which could be identified via the internet archive is working.
Second challenge now lies in identifying the rest and where they should go. A mixture of time stamps of the posts and the users should make it possible to separate that for a good part, I would think. Will be an ugly hack though.

A big thanks to you and the rest of the team for all the work you’re doing, and for keeping us updated! And good luck with all the remaining work.

 

[The_J]

I'm right now looking at the data. Overall there are 22625 posts.
There are 10490 which are from current or former moderators, so they probably belong to the internal threads which got merged. The exception is Leoreth, who has 1447 of these 10490 posts, because his modding thread got merged.
From the remaining 12135 posts only 3499 can be assigned to a thread based on the internet archive.
I'll now have a look at the rest if the time stamps are unambiguous.

 

[The_J]

I currently have an assignment for 18963 out of 22625 posts.
From the remaining 3663 in total 1062 belong to Leoreth, and 2319 to 599 other users, and the last 282 seem to be deleted posts which I by accident also pulled into the analysis .
This is under the assumption that 4690 posts which are assigned based on unique username come from users who did not post in any of the 21 threads which were not archived in the internet archive, which is as assumption a bit soso.
I'll now see if I can put things together based on quotes in the thread.

And then I need to let the bot itself run and split the monster thread... based on a rough calculation this should take.... ugh... 55 hours, as each time there is waiting times when the forum gets loaded.

 

[Blake00]

There are 10490 which are from current or former moderators, so they probably belong to the internal threads which got merged.

Keep in mind I posted a lot in the Civ2 threads that got merged.

 

[The_J]

I hate you lol.
I'll start running the bot later tonight probably without the quote chains, as I want to get some of the stuff finally recovered. The remainder I can still sort out later.

 

[The_J]

The bot has overnight moved 5387 posts, of which are 3143 for the enhanced user interface by @bc1 (158 pages out of 175), and so far 1889 for @Leoreth 's "Dawn Of Civ" (95 pages out of 290). At this point I stopped the bot because I have to use this computer right now , I'll restart it before I go to bed.

 

[Patine]

The bot has overnight moved 5387 posts, of which are 3143 for the enhanced user interface by @bc1 (158 pages out of 175), and so far 1889 for @Leoreth 's "Dawn Of Civ" (95 pages out of 290). At this point I stopped the bot because I have to use this computer right now , I'll restart it before I go to bed.

Import MSN auto-moderator algorithms, and you're on the way to self-obsolescence. "The forums practically run themselves!"

 

[The_J]

We tried that last year https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/april-fools-xenforo-enables-new-ai-features.688868/ , didn't work out .

 

[The_J]

The bot run through the night, didn't report any issues, but I see it didn't split a part.
I'll let it run again over night, maybe it had to do with the connectivity of the forum, you never know.

It also seems I mis-identified a thread, so instead of having 69 pages which need to be recovered for one thread, it is only 1. That one is not archived, need to guess at the end.

I've already made one thread again public, as that was an ongoing game and only 3 pages. For the other threads I'll need to do some spot-checks first before I do anything with them.