Bored and up for some copy’n’pasting?

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## Bored and up for some copy’n'pasting?

I want to have each map’s page link to all the available reviews on “the review sites”: TEAMShambler, Underworldfan’s, Ethereal Hell, RetroQuake (more), Ten Four, Crash’s (yes, utilising the rather random anchors…), Quake Map Hotel, SPQ Level Heaven and even the few at the Quake Terminus. And maybe even linking the relevant maps to erc’s recommendations and the Geniac.Net – Quake Map Played List.

Now I went through TEAMShambler and UWF’s, started on Ethereal Hell and realised that this is a very exhausting task. Especially since some of the remaining sites are rather chaotic if you would like to sort by filenames, heh. Having to find the filename makes it so much more annoying (hello RetroQuake!)…

So I want to ask if maybe there are some masochists who would like to help. I would send you a zip containing all the descriptions currently on the site. They are in XML and rather easy to understand. You would have to insert a new block and then insert the link to the review into it. Compare the source of 4fiffy1 to gmsp1 to see an example. Even if you manage to break the file somehow, it would still make it easier for me, isn’t that something! It would also be nice if you would report missing files (I already found a few). If there are naming conflicts try to determine which one(s) are at Quaddicted and maybe add a note in the map’s description about it (“this map is listed as blah.zip at [that site]“). When done (or terminally exhausted) mail them back to me and be a superstar.

Sounds exciting to you? Send me a mail (spirit at this domain) and say which site you would like to do. Maybe include if you are going to start at the top or bottom (by filename) for the impossible chance that two people want to do the same site. Cheers!

27.10.2008 in quaddicted.com | 2 Comments »

### 2 Responses to “Bored and up for some copy’n'pasting?”

1. ijed Says:
   28.10.2008 03:46

   Spirit, it might be easier to just copy the review entire and paste it into Quaddicted, below the description, download etc.

   I doubt the text will take up much extra webspace and it future-proofs you against link-leakage.

   As to plowing through the XML. That’s the sort of thing I used to do hangover morning, and I’m a reformed character now.

2. erc Says:
   28.10.2008 13:20

   Guess I can go through all of ‘em, by the order you posted the sites. If anybody’s willing to take a site, than I’ll pass that one to him. ;)

   erccn (at) hotmail (dot) com

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