Brilliant.

Quote from: Audrada Roibeardet on December 03, 2019, 06:52:38 PM
I'm here!

Thought I logged in but I guess not. Anyway, Azul!

Wazzup!

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on December 03, 2019, 06:35:25 PM
I don't like the Shoutbox because it doesn't leave a record. It seems a very efficient way for people to talk miéidâ about other Talossans without leaving a permanent record. If Lüc wants to set up a "Chat room" of some other sort, I'm fine as long as it leaves records.

+1

Quote from: Lüc on December 03, 2019, 05:28:03 PM

Quote from: GV on December 03, 2019, 05:20:46 PM

Quote from: Lüc on December 03, 2019, 05:10:10 PM

Quote from: GV on December 03, 2019, 04:59:11 PM
How do we archive this board?  I would love native functionality to be able to make an archive of the whole of this Witt each week and in a format that is non-proprietary.

There is no native backup functionality from inside this forum, but it's as easy as making a backup of the database, which has to be done from my own end sadly.

Ugh.  Is it possible for me to have admin rights limited to making such backups?

I might be able to do you one better and set up an autobackup with a link you can just grab every week. I'll get back to you on this.

Sounds good.  I want both me and you (if you are willing) to be on this with saving the database every week.  If you like, I'll add you to the Royal Archives staff officially for this specific purpose.

If you could put through a backup today or tomorrow and get the link to me, that would be excellent.  I want to see how the files work and are arranged.

One thing is interesting, in URLs, "topic"-numbers in our forum don't start at '1'.  Topic number one resolves to a 404, and your first post on the main forum is numbered '4'.  Far more problematic is the lack of subject-lines being in thread URLs.  Also, I see no direct links in individual posts, though in my archving of Witt XI, I always ignore individual post-links, anyway.

You have put in a ton of work on this, already.  Thank you so much!

Quote from: bitravilatx on December 03, 2019, 05:46:36 PM
Azul fellow Florencians,

I am not yet appointed as Governor but I want to, nevertheless, welcome you as the transition to Witt 2.0 gets underway. I hope that this transition will allow our province to start a period of renewal.

See you soon,
Breneir

Actually, Witt 14.0 ;-)

With all documents contained therein vetted for Talossan-name translation, I remind everyone thirsty for more knowledge of Talossan history to visit the Library of Talossa at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DQs53chil5a43Ff6PdSCLn1jaJ_8DCIg

There are literally thousands of pages of Talossana contained here with many more to come - Enjoy!

GV, Royal Archivist

Azul, and welcome to Wittenberg XIV.  At least, that is what I am calling it for the sake of posterity. :-)

As I write this, the Electoral Commission is still in the process of certifying the 54th Cosâ election.  Once that is done, I will be able to Scribe the new OrgLaw text as well as note the election on the Wiki in some way.

Normally, I would wait for such a thing to be finalized before issuing an update, but I want to be the first poster on this particular part of the new Witt.

The very rough archiving of the present Wittenberg XI continues, though it's been held up by my working to bring together the extant archive of the infamous Wittenberg VIII, which includes nearly the entirety of the seneschal-related archives of X. Conâ, Mximo C., and me.

This is turning out to be a prerequisite to my getting the Clarkives together, which will be official and annotated presentations of all extant bills, Clarks, elections, and other national-level things.  Provinces, you are on your own with stuff like that, though in time, Maricopa will be able to get at my Maricopa archives.

In the past two days, I sent the following thoughts to the PM regarding the Royal Archives:

"My vision for the post of Royal Archivist is as a coordinator of minions, each of which has a certain responsibility: one to archive media publications, one or more to keep a future Witt archived, etc. with the Royal Archivist with the specific task of keeping backups of talossa.ca (or a future database) and double-checking on everyone and everything and giving a general direction as to how the Royal Archives should operate: invisibly and transparently with redundancy of jobs and people and in such a way in five to ten years I will be able to happily step down and from thence be able to download all the publicly-available Royal digital archives at-will as any Talossan should be able to do.

Currently, the post of Royal Archivist is that of a KonMari consultant working on their own house.  And since late-summer 2018, my latest attempt at doing that has had incredible success.  This is due to a lesson my stubborn brain failed to grasp when I was PM: seek buy-in first from others.  When others are invited to the dinner party, it comes to life, and when you guys agreed to be my [Royal Archives ]Think-Tank, the Royal Archives became truly alive."

As to the 42 Project, it is the undergirding framework of everything I am doing with the Royal Archives.  By the end of this year (and I keep promising this, I know), I hope to have a full report of the status of that project which, once done, will never ever have to be done again.

Many thanks, all!

GV, Scribe etc.

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The 1997 Organic Law
http://wiki.talossa.com/Organic_Law

El Lexhatx
http://wiki.talossa.com/Law:El_Lexhatx

The Library of Talossa aka the Talossan Public Archives
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DQs53chil5a43Ff6PdSCLn1jaJ_8DCIg?usp=sharing

kingdomoftalossa.net archive uploaded to Library of Talossa on 28 Sept 2019 by Lüc da Schir
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EFi0z2Swfl3iHllTK-Pp6A1duerHicX4?usp=sharing

The 42 Project
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UzbMyC8EOgg8J85rIZEY5C44z3Pqbj70dB2UMmZ9OW4/edit?usp=sharing

The Talossan Royal Archives White Paper - everything you ever wanted to know about the Talossan Royal Archives
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P7szJDxaLlRMNY6FMIZjHkufj1tAcA2kZZvV8jqvyzs/edit?usp=sharing

Big History names-translation project work list at
https://pastebin.com/F6fZZ9XC?fbclid=IwAR3gjmFG9tzHL7vxBiuFuYmY3IZ8CjI8AfGSq8mQq9rDyH3xwM066HViHP8

Quote from: Miestrâ Schiva, UrN on December 03, 2019, 05:34:36 PM
Can we renew the "latest unread (59) posts" feature?

+1

Quote from: Þon Txoteu É. Davinescu on December 03, 2019, 02:32:38 PM
As Premier of Maricopa, it is my pleasure to officially open our new home on Witt!

This is a great day for Talossa.  We are free of ProBoards!!

As a former Maricopan Governor, I heartily wave to all of you.

Quote from: Lüc on December 03, 2019, 05:10:10 PM

Quote from: GV on December 03, 2019, 04:59:11 PM
How do we archive this board?  I would love native functionality to be able to make an archive of the whole of this Witt each week and in a format that is non-proprietary.

There is no native backup functionality from inside this forum, but it's as easy as making a backup of the database, which has to be done from my own end sadly.

Ugh.  Is it possible for me to have admin rights limited to making such backups?

Quote from: Lüc on December 03, 2019, 05:14:42 PM
This is the perfect way to inaugurate the new Wittenberg :)

Thank you!  If we can get at least three years out of this Witt, it will be a success in my book.  It is important to know this is the first Witt since X that has been put together and put online in a unified/re-unified Talossa.

My chief concern is native-archival functionality.  I cannot yet find out how to archive this thing.

How do we archive this board?  I would love native functionality to be able to make an archive of the whole of this Witt each week and in a format that is non-proprietary.

Talossa went online in late 1995 or early 1996.  Originally, our online presence was Ben Madison's old website.

This came a few years after the consumer internet had started to gain traction in this country and around the world, and at that time, it was still a huge novelty and not the hand-cuffing bane it is now becoming.  Those were fun times.

By this time, discussion forums had been around in one form or another for decades, and as a part of Talossa's part in that, a name was needed.  I imagine it was Ben who coined the name 'Wittenberg' for our discussion forum, and of course, the name has stuck.

If one counts the two forums exclusive to the Republic of Talossa, this is Talossa's fourteenth Wittenberg incarnation and the Kingdom's twelfth.  Here is a listing for all of these, using the Roman numerals used since Witt's first incarnation:

Wittenberg I came online, presumably, in late 1995 or early 1996.  It was followed in quick succession by II, III, and IV.

Wittenberg V: This is the Wittenberg that, I believe, saw the 1997-1998 drama.  By the time I came along in 2000, it had been retired, but was still accessible in archive form.

Wittenberg VI: This was my first Witt, and UC was Wittmeister and also kept backups.  The system was such everytime a backup was made, all posts had to be deleted from the live board so that the system would not crash.  VI went offline ca. 2000-2001

Wittenberg VII: I believe MPF administered this one for at least part of its existence.  It was around ca. 2000-2001 and did not last even a year, perhaps.

Wittenberg VIII: The most infamous of all Witt incarnations, a perfect storm of viruses and a failed backup caused the Great Wittenberg VIII Crash of 10 November 2001, which wiped out our records of 9-11.

Wittenberg IX: This was the first Witt that used the single-cascading thread format we use today.  The internet was well into this forum format, but the vast majority of Talossa railed against this, and this Witt lasted literally about a week.  No archive was made of this Witt, as there was nothing of any consequence that went on there.  We went back to using Witt VIII.

IX was online ca. February 2003.

Wittenberg X: Wittenberg VIII was taken offline permanently on 21 February 2003.  Wittenberg X went online on 20 February 2003 and was the Witt that saw us through Halloween and was the Witt 'commandeered' by the Republic in 2004 under circumstances so extenuating it is still a sore spot to many on both sides of the question, but for very different reasons.  Beyond 1 June 2004, the preservation status of this Witt is unknown.

Wittenberg XI: On 1 or 2 June 2004, Pete H. came to the Kingdom's rescue, and this is the Witt which, as this writing has been an absolute champ of reliability.  Unfortunately, it is on the proboards.com service, which does not allow for native archiving and could go kaput at any time imho.

Manually archiving this Wittenberg is still a work in progress.

Wittenberg XII: The first of the two Republic Wittenbergs, it went online ca. 2009-ish (MPF??) and lasted a year or two.  The preservation status of this Witt is unknown.

Wittenberg XIIb: The last of the two exclusively-Republic Wittenbergs, it went online ca. 2009-10 and was taken offline at Reunision on or about 20 April 2012.  The preservation status of this Witt is unknown.

Wittenberg XIV: You're looking at it.  It went online, today, 3 December 2019.

Profound thanks to everyone who has put in time and effort out the wazoo to make this new Wittenberg come about. 

And many thanks to Pete H., who on 1 or 2 June 2004 set up Witt XI on ProBoards.  That forum was our longest-running Wittenberg and served the Kingdom very well, indeed.