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FORUMS.STARWARS.COM
ForumsStarWarsCom.jpg
URL http://forums.starwars.com
Status Offline 2011-06-03 10:10 AM PDT
Archiving status Not saved yet
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Forums.StarWars.Com Shutdown

StarWars.Com announced the closure of their forums on 03 June 2011. (Forum will lock on 3rd May 2011) tf.n report

"The StarWars.com forums have been online since October 2001 and have featured conversations with various Star Wars VIPs. Lucas Licensing's Sue Rostoni had an ongoing dialog with Del Rey customers where she responded to fan questions and concerns. The forums received a facelift in July 2010 that gave users several new features."

Closure Update :

"Update: Due to a forums outage over the weekend of April 22-24th, we've extended the time before the forums will be locked into read-only mode. The new date for that is Tuesday, May 3rd."


ArchiveStrikesBack on IRC

Please use channel #archivestrikesback for project coordination. (EFNet network.)

Preliminary discussion happened at #archivewars . (EFNet network.)

Preliminary Project Scope

Main forums.starwars.com Page Types and Preliminary Counts
Page Type File Name Preliminary Count Estimate
Announcements : ann.jspa?annID=# Uncertain (probably under 10)
Category : category.jspa?categoryID=#
category.jspa?categoryID=#&start=##
(## = 0, 15, 30, 45, etc.)
1 thru 20 each with multiple start values
Forum : forum.jspa?forumID=#
forum.jspa?forumID=#&start=##
1 thru ~193 (don't seem to be sequential)
3,500 estimate (One page for every 15 threads)
[Highly used forumID=61 has at least 1102 pages start=16515]
Messages : message.jspa?messageID=# ~2 million : according to stats on main forum page
[quick scrap found a high value of 17965717]
Profiles : profile.jspa?userID=# ???? : quick scrape found a high value of 9782310
[Seem to be sequential. Earlier # have earlier creation date]
[Random numbers do find blank error-500.jsp pages]
RSS : rss.jspa?feed=rss%2Frssmessages.jspa?forumID=# [Please confirm if these are scrape worthy]
Tag : tag.jspa?tagName=__NAME__ ???? : Quantity Unknown
[Main Star Wars terms each have their own __NAME__ tag]
Thread Message : thread.jspa?messageID=# ???? : quick scrape found a high value of 17966647
[Similar to 'message'. Maybe redundant.]
Thread Thread : thread.jspa?threadID=# 50,574 according to stats of main forum page
???? : quick scrape found a high value of 275287
Other : Folder 'dwf', 'resources' & 'scripts' have JavaScript (.js)
Folders 'images' & 'share' have .gifs
File types 'index' and a few other misc. types
Note: these are the main categories found from a quick scrape.
Possible repetition : File type 'messages' might be the same as 'thread message'

Profile Download Sheet

--It's better to use the automated script if possible, which I'll put up sometime today. :) Underscor 10:54, 11 May 2011 (UTC)

ArchiveStrikesBack members to aid in the final archive production, please list the .tar/gz/zip collections which were uploaded to the project FTP site. Thanks.

Archive Name Archive Type Size (Compressed) Size (Uncompressed) # of Profiles Volunteer
p1900000-none295 .zip 3.5MB 12.2MB 1,022 none295
pRESWEEP-none295 .zip 96.4MB 29.0MB 412,461 none295