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I had received this today:

Hello Trak -

We show that you maintain or have maintained an official blog on StarWars.com as a feature of your Hyperspace membership. As Hyperspace services officially ended as of December 31, 2011, we wanted to give you the opportunity to retrieve whatever content you have posted to your official StarWars.com Blog before they are completely retired in 60 days.

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(C) March 13, 2012 6:29:06 PM PDT Lucasfilm Ltd.

So, yeah. The blogs will be taken down permanently in two months. Have we archived everything from them during the mad rush to save forum threads? If not, we'd better get crackin'. Trak Nar ^{Ramble on} 02:51, March 15, 2012 (UTC)

DiscussionEdit

So, I would assume that the plan would be to implement a bot to dump page information into an off-site archive. Would that include the blog comments? No doubt there's information in those... Trak Nar ^{Ramble on} 02:51, March 15, 2012 (UTC)

• I think the blogs have already been archived on archive.org. Pablo took his down a while ago, and I was able to find archived version (see Squib for example). Will this be as simple as updating the template, a la the Databank and old sw.com templates? Menkooroo 20:11, March 15, 2012 (UTC)

UpdateEdit

The {{Blog}} template has been updated by Green tentacle by my request in two important ways. One, it now links to the Wayback Machine by default. The vast majority of blog pages do seem to have been archived. Two, a new field is now available, webcite=, with which you can link to a static copy of any of the blogs we have linked in the main namespace. I did a mass archival request and a list can be found here. The long query ID number goes in the new field. I've already updated a few Featured Articles so you can see what it looks like, as seen here or here. For the url= field in a {{Quote}} template, you'll use the full webcitation.org URL, as also shown in those examples. ("THWOMP," by the way, is the sound it makes when we thwart the evil designs of the StarWars.com webmasters.) -- Darth Culator ^(Talk) 20:36, April 20, 2012 (UTC)

Why webcitation.org and not archive.org? webcitation.org just infected my PC with a trojan. —Unsigned comment by Jartka'irn (talk • contribs).

• Are you sure that webcitation.org did that? Virustotal.com says otherwise. Perhaps you mistyped it? And please remember to sign your comments with four (4) tildes (~~~~). Trak Nar ^{Ramble on} 07:38, May 26, 2012 (UTC)
• Kaspersky flagging it as Trojan.Script.Iframer Jartka'irn 09:06, May 26, 2012 (UTC)
  • Then Kaspersky is freaking retarded. WebCite uses iframes to show the header that identifies it as an archived website, but I've examined the container, top frame, and bottom frame, and there's no malicious code. I've run multiple archived pages through multiple scanners and come up with not even false positives. If there's an infection anywhere, it's either on your computer, or in your head. -- Darth Culator ^(Talk) 10:05, May 26, 2012 (UTC)
    • My brother has gotten false positives with Kaspersky before. Its problem is that it can be too good. It will oftentimes tag innocent and even vital things. I suggest looking into a different program, as you may be getting false positives from elsewhere as well. Trak Nar ^{Ramble on} 03:06, May 27, 2012 (UTC)
    • Whoa! "in your head"? No need to start insulting me. I was simply making a query as to why we were using webcite.org and that my virus scanner had identified a line of malicious code injected into the said website at the said time. Jartka'irn 03:10, May 27, 2012 (UTC)
    • I agree. That was uncalled for, DC. He's just reporting what happened, even if Kaspersky is acting up. -- Riffsyphon1024 10:53, May 28, 2012 (UTC)