ESpages

A compilation of (defunct) Eastern Sun wiki contents.

Please note this is a work-in-progress repository, and there will be inconsistencies!

The Wayback Machine has a (relatively) working snapshot of the Eastern Sun wiki from 12 Nov 2020. You can access the main page from this link.

Procedure

AKA how I've compiled these pages

1. Save web pages from Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org)
2. Copy the html page to ./raw
3. Remove headers, footers and navigation column
4. Make sure that the content is not inside <table> and there are no extra <td> tags
5. Run pandoc: pandoc raw/$PAGENAME.html -f html -t markdown -s -o markdown/$NEWNAME.md

• $PAGENAME: Whatever name the downloaded/copied page has
• $NEWNAME: If old name has spaces or is super long, give it a more sensible name. Otherwise you can reuse the old name

6. Clean up

• Remove extra fenced divs (blocks starting with :::)
  • Add where needed
• Hyperlinks
  • Use internal links when applicable
  • Remove web.archive.org where applicable
    • References to original ES Wiki should use archived links
    • Same for other currently broken websites, if there is a working archive site
  • Add a note to broken links
• Inline styles (use classes instead, e.g. [1]{style="color:blue"} --> [1]{.note})
  • Remember to add the definition to css file!
  • These are called bracketed spans
• Line breaks in odd places
  • Prefer semantic line breaks within paragraphs
• Tables
  • Justification
  • Empty rows
• Images

7. Run pandoc again: pandoc markdown/$PAGENAME.md -f markdown -t html -s -o html/$PAGENAME.html (Add css file(s) with -c css/style.css)

• For combining two or more .md files into one .html file, create a .txt file in includes and list the .md files in the order they should be included. See includes/amazon.txt for example.
• Use following command to run pandoc: pandoc -s $(cat includes/$NAME.txt) -f markdown -t html5 -o html/$NAME.html

8. If satisfied, add the command to build.sh file

• Remember to include css files, if any!

Copyright details

The content is lifted from Eastern Sun Wiki pages, as detailed above. The relevant html parts are included in /raw folder and whatever images I've reused are in /img. The copyright status for the wiki content is unknown, most likely held by original wiki contributors.

The markdown files are slightly edited to fix any formatting and styling issues arising from the conversion. Also the PukiWiki related code (e.g. edit-links) is mostly removed. Hyperlinks to other Eastern Sun wikipages are converted to relative links to other pages in this repository or to the Eastern Sun Database.

The raw html pages may contain remnants of code from Wayback Machine, which is copyright by the Internet Archive.

The index page and scripts found in /scripts, /css, and /js folders are original work by me, unless otherwise noted. As that work is rather trivial, you can use it freely. (For non-original work please follow their license or usage permissions.)