I develop Oddmuse and run the Emacs Wiki. I have a blog.
I live in Zürich, Switzerland. I have a 60% job as a software engineer. German is my first language.
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Dear Alex, Thank you for maintaining the CommunityWiki. And the OddWiki.
The InformationOverload page links to WikisVsInformationOverload.
The “View other revisions” doesn’t show anything good, but I suspect that there used to be some good content and somehow Oddmuse:Kept_Pages decided to delete that good content.
Would you please look through your offline archives and, if you can find a good version of WikisVsInformationOverload, restore it?
Thank you.
Hi David – if you look at the history of the page, you’ll find that revision 1 is spam. I therefore assume that this used to be a WantedPage and got created by spammers.
Yes, that is the most likely explanation. However, what if something like this happened:
The end result would be the same as what I see now, right?
Would you please look through your offline archives and, if you can find a good version of WikisVsInformationOverload, restore it?
Thank you.
In the scenario you describe the revision numbers would not start with 1. That’s why I’m convinced that no content has been lost.
I also don’t keep any systematic backups of the site. All there is I presume is the backup made by the admins of the host. But I won’t bother them with this.
Sorry to disappoint you.
Thank you for the explanation. I’m glad that no information was actually lost.