Archiving content from GeoCities websites
Jul 5 2009 11:06
#32
Correct. If there's any additional information or something, or pictures or whatever you could do a quick update but otherwise don't worry about it.
Jul 5 2009 11:08
#33
Correct. If there's any additional information or something, or pictures or whatever you could do a quick update but otherwise don't worry about it.
Jul 5 2009 11:58
#34
I know this is basic, but if I really can't think of / find an appropriate image, should I leave it blank, or put in a generic filler image?
Jul 5 2009 12:04
#35
If there's nothing appropriate, just leave it blank.
Jul 5 2009 12:06
#36
And actually Jack, having a quick look the source credit for the text should be at the bottom of the article, ideally in italics, rather than in the intro field. Cheers.
Jul 5 2009 12:09
#37
Also Jack, only tag a country if the article is specifically about something that has happened in that country, you don't need to tag it if only the group that wrote the article is from that country.
Jul 5 2009 12:13
#38
Steven. wrote:
And actually Jack, having a quick look the source credit for the text should be at the bottom of the article, ideally in italics, rather than in the intro field. Cheers.
This is the kinda thing I was trying to avoid! I'll go back and sort the ones so far - I was copying formating off Ret! 
Jul 10 2009 19:28
#39
Red and Black Notes all done.
Jul 10 2009 20:02
#40
Just seen the other stuff on the site - do we want the Glaberman archive and against capitalist war/against capitalist peace stuff?
Jul 10 2009 20:05
#41
jack wrote:
I was copying formating off Ret! wink
Well some of my formatting is from before the guidelines were set - and I've ignored them sometimes anyway.
Jul 11 2009 00:29
#42
Yes, Ret is a formatting rebel
Jack, I would have thought that we would want to backup everything that might be lost. If it's rubbish of course, don't worry about it, but if it's good then we should try to archive it. Nice one with all the work though!
Jul 11 2009 01:57
#43
Found another geocities site.... http://www.geocities.com/insurrection_raven/en_texts/index.html
The one I'm more interested in out of the small collection is Werner Bonefeld: The Capitalist State: Illusion and Critique, but I don't have time to read this right now, so I can't get an idea of how to summarize or if it even fits with this site. I'll try to get to it sometime this weekend, unless someone else does.
Jul 11 2009 11:12
#44
Cheers, I'll edit that in to the original post.
Yes the Bonefeld book looks interesting. We have some of the other stuff on that site, like the class war book, already.
Jul 11 2009 14:14
#45
Okay, Red and Black Notes now definitely completely done including bot archives.
I'll get started on Wage Slave X next.
Does anyone know who Internationalist Perspectives are? There's a load on the Wage Slave X website - are they in our remit?
Jul 11 2009 14:18
#46
Can someone who speaks French put a better intro on this and just check it's okay?
http://libcom.org/library/travailer-pour-la-paie-les-racines-de-la-revolte-martin-glaberman
(I've also pm'ed Jef)
Jul 11 2009 16:20
#47
Wage Slave X is on our World in Common discussion list, and I've told him about this, so he may be in touch. He's also on Libcom (though I don't know how often).
Imo, with the amount of councilist and KAPD stuff they have, they *should* be saved, and I am inclined to say everything else as well, (except already duplicates) - and not just for for this particular site, but all in the anti-statist, anti-capitalist, and anti-reformist sector, broadly defined (but maybe that's just me and my WiC ideas!). In any case, we can slot the entries wherever appropriate later, or even just off load them to some folks who desperately want them and don't want to be associated with the likes of us,if we want. It's a real service you guys are performing 
, and I applaud it, though fairly incompetent to do more 
.
Let's face it, if we already have Lenin and Trotsky (and worse)on the site, there's no reason we can't store places of interest (not that I'm accusing Wageslave X of that! - He's a Left Communist, iirc- which we also have here in the library)
Jul 11 2009 18:54
#48
I'll claim Practical History
Jul 11 2009 22:13
#49
Jack wrote:
Does anyone know who Internationalist Perspectives are? There's a load on the Wage Slave X website - are they in our remit?
Internationalist Perspective was originally a split from the ICC, but are in my opinion more interesting and less dogmatic. Some of them have been posting here. They have their own website at http://internationalist-perspective.org.
Jul 12 2009 08:20
#50
Hi, I'm Wage Slave X, hence my user name: wa...sla...x. Please do go ahead and copy as much of my old site to libcom as you like. The Internationalist Perspective texts on my site were put there before IP had its own website. I think most if not all of the IP texts on my site are now on the IP site. I am now a member of IP, hence, one reason there has been little new on the Wage Slave X site for the last few years. IP is left communist, but doesn't dogmatically defend Left Communism as a finished programme, but rather sees it as a work in progress that needs to be critiqued and renewed. If the spectrum of left communist groups was laid out from partyist at one end (Bordigists) and councilist at the other end, IP would be closer to the councilist end. While all the other larger left com. groups label IP as councilist, we don't think we are councilist, and have several times tried to show why we aren't.
Again, thanks for all the work you're doing on this, comrades.
Jul 12 2009 08:24
#51
A little note as appendix. The guy who did the Red & Black Notes site (and hard copy bulletin) is also now in Internationalist Perspective, and I'm sure he also appreciates that you have been able to archive his old site here too.
Jul 12 2009 09:35
#52
You can also feel free to help copying your site over here, and if you need any assistance we can provide a
Jul 12 2009 18:45
#53
Okay, I would just need to learn how to do it. You can pm me about that if you want. Also, it seems Jack has already started on my site, so we should be clear on what's been done and what still needs doing.
Jul 12 2009 18:58
#54
Haven't started on Wage Slave X site - just put on the couple of articles that were on Red and Black Notes. I'll pm you tonight about dividing it up.
Jul 12 2009 23:35
#55
Hi,
This is my first post, although I've been a long time observer.
The guy who produced Red and Black Notes has posted on his blog that he wasn't sure what he was going to do with the material on his geocities website. So maybe if Waslax or anyone else who knows him could contact him and let him know that his material has been posted in the libcom library.
Jul 13 2009 09:55
#56
Thanks for pointing that out, I've left a comment on his blog.
Jul 14 2009 06:06
#57
Yeah, he knows about it, and appreciates it. Cheers, Steven.
Jul 23 2009 15:38
#58
Egyptian libertarian communist site: http://www.geocities.com/aggoa2000/index13.html It'd be a real shame if this got lost.
Jul 23 2009 20:40
#59
Sorry, but I'm having a really hard time keeping track-
So at this point, what is totally done?
What is in progress?
What sites are totally untouched yet?
Jul 23 2009 21:48
#60
I've had, and will have, absolutely no practical input to this process whatsoever, being pretty computer illiterate (and I'm not proud of that). Just to say thanks for all the hard work that's going on here. For what it's worth - 'If in doubt, don't leave it out' - I've still got ring binders stuffed full of print-outs of KAPD stuff off John Gray and Cordoba Cafe that's no good to anyone in that state - keep it online. Well done.
I presume for stuff we already have we don't need the R&B Notes version?