Fremantle
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I've been this evening to pick up the entire content dump of https://freotopia.org from Garry Gillard. He's donating it all to Wikimedia Australia so that we can incorporate it into https://freopedia.org (or rather, so Freopedia can expand to include a new wiki that will contain Freotopia and other material).
At first glance, there are 4,254 HTML files and 9,218 JPEGs (out of 28,476 all up). Here's a random sample:
./buildings/._federationwarehouse.html ./davidson/img/51.jpg ./schools/img/._.DS_Store ./fremantlewalks/porcelli.jpg ./river/melville/22.jpg ./society/newsletter/img/1975/3-3/._9.jpg ./readingroom/6.2/Richo2.html ./buildings/._primaries.html ./clubs/freoworkers/images/._DailyNews1928Aug21.jpg ./fhs/fs/2/img/straw2.jpg ./people/img/naylor.jpg ./clubs/freoworkers/images/._WorkersIzzy.jpg ./people/._greencharles.html ./readingroom/doco/ozdoco/ozdoco.htm ./hotels/._licensees1892.html ./society/newsletter/img/1974/jan/9.jpg ./fhs/fs/1/img/._harcourt1.jpg ./people/img/._scott.jpg ./clubs/freoworkers/images/conceptplan.jpg ./fhs/fs/7/contributors.html ./fhs/fs/5/img/statham4.jpg ./maylands/._index.html ./hotels/img/._oddfellows1851.jpg ./parks/img/oval1174C(1925).jpg ./society/newsletter/2004Aug.html ./park/img/hutchison2/16.jpg ./people/ingleknight/img/._inglemugshot2.jpg ./hotels/img/._freemasons.jpg ./fhs/fs/1/img/harcourt3.jpg
My plan of action is something along the lines of:
- Upload an as-is zip file of the whole lot to the Internet Archive, as a point-in-time archive. (Edit: now done, see Freotopia_2024-06-17.)
- Filter out all actual files that are part of Freotopia (e.g. there are lots of files, I think created by Dreamweaver, starting with
._— and a few that don't relate to Fremantle at all). - Create a list of all the wanted files (HTML as well as images) on Freopedia, and map these to the page names that they'll end up with.
- Use pandoc to convert the HTML to MediaWiki markup.
- Upload all images.
- Upload all pages, with a
{{freotopia}}header that'll indicate their source and link to the project page. - Progressively go through all the pages, tidying things up and bringing it all up to date.