User blog:Mio Amore/My Apology for Irresponsibility

I lied about the Fandom of Halloween Specials Archive. I said I would archive everything the wiki used to have, but I have not, and now, it is impossible to do so.

If you do not know, the Fandom of Halloween Specials Archive is an archive of the Fandom of Halloween Specials Wiki, a former wiki on FANDOM. It shut down on August 12th, 2021 after various acts of FANDOM's terms of service, including vandalism and lack of moderation.

The wiki was one of the primary places where I made content at the time, so I thought it was a good idea to archive the wiki.

I used two sources as the materials used to archive the wiki: the Fandom of Halloween Specials XML file that contains the most recent edits of every page, message, and many other articles at the time, and the cache of Fandom of Halloween Specials images that were up online even with the Fandom of Halloween Specials Wiki itself closing down. I downloaded the images, uploaded them, and copied the text from the XML file, and that's how I made all the pages. At that time, I recreated about 500 of the original pages from that wiki onto here, which was only a fraction of how many pages there actually were.

However, even with the materials in front of me, I neglected to archive the wiki altogether, calling it "too much work", and only archiving select pages and pages wanting to be archived by the request of users until neglecting those too over the Summer season.

The image archive eventually closed down on August 12th, 2022, with the majority of the Fandom of Halloween Specials wiki's images being removed from FANDOM's image cache.

I am sorry for neglecting what I set out to do and disappointing you with many of the pages still missing.

I realize that it is upsetting that I made you expect I would archive the entire wiki and for me to end up not delivering, and I was wrong to neglect your request to archive more pages and to assume the image archive I was using would last forever. I was irresponsible with downloading the archived images, only downloading less than a fifth of the thousands of images that were on the original wiki, and I am sorry.

I would like to offer to create more pages for this wiki, even without the original images.

From now on, I will be more responsible, treat the archive with respect, find as many lost wiki pages as I can, and upload them here.

Comments

 * awww, so sad :(
 * So terrifying! After 8/12/22 we still have to do some