[Mkguild] Archive Update -- Plus resignation announcement

[christian okane]

Wow! 

 

I do want to thank Virmir for handling the archive for so long!  I seem to remember Virmir was the one who revived it for us!

 

   So is there anyone out there who could take this over for us?"

 

  As an added incentive I'll offer some muffins!

 

 

 

Chris

The Lurking Fox

 

 

 

 

From: mkguild-bounces at lists.integral.org [mailto:mkguild-bounces at lists.integral.org] On Behalf Of Virmir
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 12:30 PM
To: Metamor Keep
Subject: [Mkguild] Archive Update -- Plus resignation announcement

 

Hello all,

I'm please to announce another update to the Metamor Keep Story Archives.

http://metamorkeep.com

This week's update is the Hawl's latest story. Enjoy!



As some of you have surely noticed, I've been less and less involved with the MK community following the completion of my MK arc some years ago. My situation has changed significantly since I first started taking care of the archives in 2007-- namely I have a lot more websites I'm managing, a weekly webcomic, a second sporadic comic I'd like to update more often, plus many weekly commissions and other fun projects going on.  I believe it's time for me to step down from my role of archivist and pass the torch to someone more involved and active as Thaeus had done before me.

That said-- ARCHIVIST WANTED. INQUIRE WITHIN.

Maintaining the archives is not that huge of a deal. You should have basic HTML knowledge and be comfortable converting large stories to this format. There is PHP code in the header of each story that also needs to be added, but it is extremely simplistic and you don't really need to be familiar with the language at all. Some MySQL familiarity would be helpful. I have programed some extremely crude admin panel pages which insert the stories, pictures, etc into the database, but there a few things you need to go into the database directly for (using Xepher.net's PHPmyAdmin panel). I can put together a guide how to do this stuff. Also, you should have a method for resizing images and making thumbnails, as the gallery needs these uploaded manually.

Also, fair warning-- 2008-era Virmir-code is terrifying. I mean, the site is pretty simplistic, but I haven't looked at the code in many years and am afraid of what I might find if I do. ;)

I figure it would be best for interested parties to publicly post to the list so the whole community can share their input. It's not a dire emergency that I step down today, so feel free to send stories to me until we figure out who's going to be doing this for sure. I also don't intend to disappear for good-- I'll be around for guidance and questions!

Thanks, folks. It's been fun!



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-  Virmir | http://virmir.com 

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