{"id":9,"date":"2008-06-08T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T22:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/?p=9"},"modified":"2008-12-10T22:16:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T05:16:47","slug":"reconstituting-the-metaweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/2008\/06\/reconstituting-the-metaweb\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstituting the Metaweb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bringing a wiki back to life reminds me that I’ve wanted to reconstitute the Metaweb, the wiki covering Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle.<\/em> Of course, I had the database for hbmobile, which made that easy; I didn’t get it for the Metaweb, due to apparently bad timing. It got bogged down by spammers, there was an inability to upgrade the software, & it wasn’t golden, but still…<\/p>\n

I read about the Nielsen Haydens’ work to reconstitute from caches & whatnot<\/a> after a server died, & it sounds familiar.<\/p>\n

archive.org covered the Metaweb,<\/a> & so did I. It sorta looked like I’d have to set up a wikibot to read the archive & push it back out to another wiki, possibly having to massage the input for formatting (no, you can’t log in!) & massage the output to preserve timestamps. Now it looks plausible to feed the html into something that spits out an sql dump.<\/p>\n

This also got nudged a bit by finding out that Stephenson’s got a book, Anathem,<\/em> coming out late this year. Aaand now I see a name I remember from the Metaweb asking about it. So I’m going to go ask if he got a copy of the database.<\/p>\n

Updates (8\/17): Since writing this, I’ve been in touch with Metaweb collaborators Jeremy Bornstein (who gave me an Anathem<\/em> copy), Alan Sinder, & Patrick Tufts (due to a question I asked on Metafilter<\/a>). There’s a small (four meg), corrupted, empty copy of the database at hand, & a larger (forty meg) copy hiding somewhere.<\/p>\n

He’s doing a tour of readings; he’ll be in San Francisco for its release party September 9th,<\/a> with Anathem<\/em>-inspired music & Q&A.<\/p>\n

A friend from hbmobile has offered the use of cryptonomicon.net, which I’m considering.<\/p>\n

Update (12\/10): There’s an Anathem Wiki.<\/a> the database hasn’t made an appearance, & computer problems have provided another obstacle.\u00a0 I’ll note any progress here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bringing a wiki back to life reminds me that I’ve wanted to reconstitute the Metaweb, the wiki covering Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. Of course, I had the database for hbmobile, which made that easy; I didn’t get it for the Metaweb, due to apparently bad timing. It got bogged down by spammers, there was an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}