Wizards forums migration tool

[MerricB]

Strictly speaking, we should only be moving content *we* own, not content made by someone else. The license we've granted to Wizards does not remove our own rights to our own material; however, we haven't magically gained access to someone else's right by virtue of its being on the Wizards forums.

In many cases, you should be able to gain permission to move content from its creator. (Move? Duplicate is what we're doing).

Cheers!

 

[MerricB]

New version up - should deal with the line breaks in a more sensitive way. I've also reduced (slightly) the size of the header font to fit on EN World pages better.

Let me know if you notice any odd behaviour... although I'm likely to be in bed. I've been working on this the last 10+ hours without much of a break.

Cheers!

 

[Morrus]

I've stickied this, Merric. I think a lot of people are going to owe you some major thanks!

 

[MerricB]

One of the reasons there are oddities in the conversion is because there are oddities in the formatting. I mean, how do you deal with this line of html?

<p style="margin-right:10px; margin-bottom:10px; color:rgb(68, 68, 68)>

Really? You want a little space below the paragraph and on the side, and the colour to be some sort of grey?

You can have a newline and that's it!



Cheers!

 

[Ferghis]

Serious kudos MerricB. You've always been a great poster, ever since I saw you for the first time over a decade ago on Dragonsfoot. Thanks for doing this.

 

[RealAlHazred]

Hmmm... I was converting along, no problem, and then I hit this page: http://community.wizards.com/forum/dd-encounters-season-15-murder-baldurs-gate/threads/3889061

When I try to "Convert" it gives me the "You are not authorized to access this page" page. I'm still logged in. I can see it just fine on my browser...

 

[koga305]

This looks fantastic. For those of us with Macs, would other folks be willing to run a few threads through the program and send us the BBCode? I'd love to repost my Fighter Guide on ENWorld and this looks like the perfect tool to do it, but I don't have access to a Windows computer.

 

[Giles the Cleric]

Thank you very much, Merric. Copying over the coloured text is probably the most important bit; other HTML-to-BBCode converters I've found don't have that capability. I've added your tool to my "how-to" in the GitP index of 3.X material, here:

giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?444041-Threads-from-the-Wizards-forums

If anyone is moving 3.X stuff over, please PM me a link or make a note of it in the thread, and the mirrored thread (from any site) will be added to the index.

 

[Morrus]

Hmmm... I was converting along, no problem, and then I hit this page: http://community.wizards.com/forum/dd-encounters-season-15-murder-baldurs-gate/threads/3889061

When I try to "Convert" it gives me the "You are not authorized to access this page" page. I'm still logged in. I can see it just fine on my browser...

That page isn't accessible to people not logged in, for some reason. You were logged in, but Merric's tool isn't.

That sounded dirty.

 

[MerricB]

Hmmm... I was converting along, no problem, and then I hit this page: http://community.wizards.com/forum/dd-encounters-season-15-murder-baldurs-gate/threads/3889061

When I try to "Convert" it gives me the "You are not authorized to access this page" page. I'm still logged in. I can see it just fine on my browser...

Ah, but you're not logged in using the program's internal browser, which is running in IE7 mode, because it feels like it. And IE7 won't log-in to the Wizards site. There's meant to be a registry entry that can fix that, but it's proving very troublesome to fix.

Cheers!