This is mostly for Aaron and Eric, but David might also be interested, and I'm not excluding the possibility that others might as well.
I have gone through all the titles of articles from the earliest still on the site through the end of December 2002.
Aaron, is there any way that I can create author accounts? I could probably track down Seth and get him to create one, but Gareth-Michael Skarka is probably not talking to me, and Gary Gygax is not talking to anyone anymore (O.K., my dark humor probably isn't appreciated), and it would be better for the authors and for the site to show those articles with the authors' names attached.
Also, is there any way I can delete author accounts? We've got a lot of writers in the stable whose first name is Viagra, who probably don't have any articles or posts on record, and it would be nice to clean out the dead wood.
I was uncertain about two articles. You might remember that back mumble-mumble years ago Ian O'Rourke and I did some "Point/Counterpoint" articles, where we each tackled the same issue in a side-by-side format. In a sense, they are not mine; in a sense they are. I put them under my user name, partly because I don't think Ian has a user name (and if he does, I really don't remember what it was), but I don't particularly want to claim full credit for his work. Since I couldn't create an account, I couldn't make a joint user name one for those articles.
Eric, I think I got all of yours, but you should probably browse through all the article indices up through the end of December 2002 and make sure I didn't miss any. Particularly before the World a Week column began, you wrote a few things that weren't easy to spot as yours.
David, I saw a couple of things I thought might be yours in those months, but I wasn't sure either whether they were or whether you had a user account, so I didn't pursue it.
If anyone else has articles posted that are not showing under their user name, let me know.
As an aside, I also cleaned up the links in the quarterly articles of the Game Ideas Unlimited series for those years. For those who don't remember the weekly series, every thirteenth article summarized the previous twelve and linked back to them, but the links went bad when the site was updated. Those should work now.
--M. J. Young
MJ-
First, thank you so much for the help. This will be a huge step toward making GO's huge archive more accessible.
Aaron, is there any way that I can create author accounts?
Probably. Let me look into it, but my guess is I'll end up granting you administrative access to the article system.
Also, is there any way I can delete author accounts?
Definitely. Again, my guess is administrative access is the best way to go here.
You might remember that back mumble-mumble years ago Ian O'Rourke and I did some "Point/Counterpoint" articles, where we each tackled the same issue in a side-by-side format. In a sense, they are not mine; in a sense they are.
I'd just put them under your name and then, at the top of the article in bold or something, put in "Counterpoint by Ian O'Rourke" or something of that sort. If he has a website you can link his name to, that'd be great. But the system doesn't support multiple authors per article, so I don't think there's another option.
Aaron--
Hit a bit of a surprise.
Two of the "first season" Game Ideas Unlimited articles had pictures in them. In the transfer, the pictures seem to have been lost, although the spots for them were retained in the formatting. I'm wondering if the images are still somewhere on the server and I only have to fix the links, or barring that whether I have to upload the images anew (it appears that I do have these on my hard drive).
The first article is My North Wall, and the link says the image is at http://gamingoutpost.com/images/columns/game_ideas_unlimited/giu004i1.jpg but there is nothing there.
The other is in Empiricism, and shows as http://gamingoutpost.com/images/columns/game_ideas_unlimited/giu010.jpg which again is an empty address.
I think these were the only two pictures I ever included. If they still exist on the server somewhere, I can fix the links; if they can be uploaded somewhere, tell me where/how and I'll replace them.
Thanks.
--M. J. Young