Forum:Restore the old anime wiki as an archive

Awhile back there was an anime wiki at anime.wikia.com, it was the precursor to this wiki and the original home base of the Animanga project trying to unite all the animanga wiki here. This wiki was where the original sources and history for every template that was shared to piles of wikis including this one were. Licensing details for a number of shared images were stored there too. And the original sources for the mascot in our logo as well as some derivatives were only uploaded there. Of course that's where the attribution to the creator of said mascot is too. There were also some other resources that were never really moved off of there.

When Wikia's staff redirected the anime.wikia.com domain to here they completely got rid of that wiki. Instead of archiving it to another subdomain as I recommended the many times before when other staff members talked about the idea of pointing anime here.

The staff decided that the admins/community decided the wiki shouldn't be archived and say that a community discussion is needed to restore the data that was removed (email discussion). ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 19:54, May 21, 2013 (UTC)
 * If we need to access stuff there, I don't see a problem with restoring it since it will be penalized by SEO and not be put above us. — S im A nt 02:22, May 22, 2013 (UTC)
 * It also won't have any links to it to drive the search rank up and or enough relevant content to make it notable to search engines anyways. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 03:11, May 22, 2013 (UTC)

Anyone else? ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 05:16, June 7, 2013 (UTC)

Supporting. The main thing is that the original files may be of use to build up out About page, as well as add the original files of our mascot (whose name escapes me once more). And besides, that wiki is a piece of our history. Might as well merge it here to give this wiki some completion. heraldofmeridian♣ 14:07, June 7, 2013 (UTC)

I don't see the point of restoring the whole thing. If its just a couple of pages, they can be extracted from a dump and imported here. Have they made the dump available? --Sxerks (talk) 16:09, June 7, 2013 (UTC)
 * It's more than a few pages. There are image sources there that don't exist in any dump. And relevant data mentioned is spread across a number of pages. An XML dump wouldn't be a good way to pick through that data. As for the dump itself the link the staff gave me doesn't even work anymore. They killed that subdomain that hosted dumps. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk &#8285; Animanga Talk) 15:59, June 8, 2013 (UTC)