i found this post

Burner wrote on Apr 21^st, 2009 at 12:55pm:

http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1239817824/30

what wiki is he refering to?

Whilst searching for this lost treasure, I came upon this http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1258589631 which has a link to said wiki. Sadly, the wiki seems to be inactive.

johan wrote on Jun 13^th, 2017 at 2:31pm:


Maybe .

The wiki was a part of the forum early in its existence.

It was intended amongst other things to gather in a more coherent form 'wisdom' accumulated on the site. Some people did a considerable amount of work on this, but access was lost following various things like spamming attacks on it, and reorganizations and upgrading of the forum. There was an English translation of Hondero's book on the sling which took many hours of work on the part of a few Spanish speakers.

I'm 90% sure it has been inaccessible since at least end of 2013 when efforts to recover it seem to have faded out.

The last reference I think was here: http://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1364304526

I believe that the wiki files are still there - and possibly might be recovered.

The wiki used PmWiki, run from a script at http://slinging.org/wiki2/index.php.

If you try this now, you will see a prodigious list of repeated errors thus:

Deprecated: preg_replace(): The /e modifier is deprecated, use preg_replace_callback instead in /home/slinging/www/www/wiki2/pmwiki.php on line 834

with similar for various line numbers.

However, buried amongst this stuff is some meaningful text - which is from the original home page of the wiki. Links from this behave similarly, so I suspect that substantial amounts of the wiki content still exists, it's just that the rendering engine is screwed up.

Possibly it needs 'just' an update of the pmwiki scripts - but in any case it would be very nice to confirm the wiki content still exists.

Edit: I see that the English translation of Hondero's book is still there (part of the wiki) - if you try this:

http://slinging.org/wiki2/index.php/Paleolithic/TheDiscoveryOfTheSling

and scroll through the garbage you will find a perfectly readable extract . Particularly encouraging that at least this page has images. However I don't know if this because the content has actually been rendered properly by the wiki engine, or because it is (perhaps) referencing a .pdf file or something similar.

wanderer wrote on Jun 14^th, 2017 at 4:42am:


It looks like it's using php to generate the pages.  I viewed source and cleaned up that page (grep'ed out the Deprecated lines and extraneous <br > lines..
http://www.zachfamily.org/sling/ here is what I did.. 

The whole book could probably be saved and converted to static html like that pretty easily..  or maybe setup a different wiki (I run a dokuwiki wiki for my team) and have a team of volunteers to salvage/move over information from the old wiki? 

Just some ideas..