James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
> On 06/27/2013 03:24 PM, MichaelJF wrote:
> > James Holsenback <nom### [at] nonecom> wrote:
> >> Just a heads up, that I did some cleanup over on the Wiki. A while back
> >> the reference section was moved to it's own namespace. For example
> >> Documentation:Agate Pattern was moved to Reference:Agate Pattern ... the
> >> cleanup just removed the now duplicate files in the Documentation
> >> namespace, so if anyone notices any irregularities please let me know.
> >
> > Hi Jim,
> >
> > what really needs a cleanup is the link-collection. A lot of them are down, may
> > be some of them moved and others were changed over the years and have no
> > POV-content any longer since their author switched to Autodesk. At the moment
> > POV is occupied at both of my machines - the Suse as well as the Windoze (typo?)
> > one - searching for more realistic pyroclastic flows around Mt. Rainier using
> > Rune's particle system so I have a little time to lend a hand with this issue.
> > Unfortunatelly I cannot find the "`create accound"' option at the POV-Wiki. As
> > it seems this option is deactivated due to spam bots.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Michael
> >
> >
>
> A while back someone was actively working on resolving some of the sites
> that (like you pointed out) had moved or gone away. I'm not sure how far
> they had gotten with that effort. I'd have to check, but IIRC he'd made
> /some/ progress. The user "Mr" posts here from time to time .. he's the
> chap that maintains the Blender->POV exporter. Perhaps he will notice
> this thread and fill us in on where he stopped. Something I remember
> about his effort that he was able to find some of the disappeared sites
> on some archive site ... waybackmachine or something like that. At any
> rate I can create accounts, but would have to classify that as low
> priority. Since I'm not someone who turns done help I /might/ be able to
> get to it later next week. Still interested?


Hi!
I have not given up but it's been a while since I haven't worked on it:
So far, I have done entirely with all their subsections:


    3D Animation Utilities

    3D Image and Texture Resources

    3D Magazines, Lists, and FAQs

    3D Programs


What remains:


    3D Discussion Forums

    3D Link Sites

    3D Model Sites

    3D Prototyping

    3D Resources

    3D Tutorials

    POV-Ray Include, Macro and Object Files

    POV-Ray People Pages

What help I would like: a first pass from someone who would not delete any link,
but just correct the ones obvious like when the name or directory tree has
changed a little but the site and/or content still exists at the same host or
otherwise if possible linked by its original author. When in doubt do nothing.

For the deleting of dead link, I'd rather do that myself after I triple checked
that the Internet Time Machine; reocities and other such archeological tools ALL
fail (that way I managed to declare officially dead less than 5 or 10 links over
the sections mentioned in which hundreds were failing. So If you find one just
leave it as it is. The rest that you'll have done will speed up my finding it.

I hope this is not too directive? in any case, if you happen to finish that pass
get in touch with me via the discussion page my wiki account is Maurice.
Thanks a lot for your help

Post a reply to this message