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#1 ayadai

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Posted 25 February 2025 - 08:40 AM

In response to this post in The Giveaway thread, as it is a better fit here:
 

I submitted telescope documents to this Website years ago but can't recall how this was done. Documents are available for all to print.  Perhaps someone here knows how to contact the owners. Would be nice if your documents were added to this archive with access to all.
 
https://web.archive....taire/classics/


Archive.org's wayback machine is a repository chronicling the history of the majority of internet. As such, it's imperative that the resources shown are exactly as they appeared when captured.
 
That said, I've mirrored the site and hosted it here: https://islandastronomy.com/classics/. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to submit additional documents or if you find any 404s.


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Posted 25 February 2025 - 01:45 PM

In response to this post in The Giveaway thread, as it is a better fit here:
 


Archive.org's wayback machine is a repository chronicling the history of the majority of internet. As such, it's imperative that the resources shown are exactly as they appeared when captured.
 
That said, I've mirrored the site and hosted it here: https://islandastronomy.com/classics/. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to submit additional documents or if you find any 404s.

Excellent job!

 

Who runs the "Classic Telescope Wiki" here?

 

https://wiki.telesco...m/wiki/Catalogs

 

The replaced the old site that was hosted on an environmental protection website in California. I don't think any changes have been made is a long time. The layout is very good.

 

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#3 ayadai

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Posted 25 February 2025 - 04:31 PM

Excellent job!

 

Who runs the "Classic Telescope Wiki" here?

 

https://wiki.telesco...m/wiki/Catalogs

 

The replaced the old site that was hosted on an environmental protection website in California. I don't think any changes have been made is a long time. The layout is very good.

 

-drl

Wikipedia-based sites are hosted by Wikipedia and are maintained by volunteers. Anyone can log in and make changes subject to review and moderation.


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Posted 25 February 2025 - 04:54 PM

Wikipedia-based sites are hosted by Wikipedia and are maintained by volunteers. Anyone can log in and make changes subject to review and moderation.

Yes, but that wiki is hosted by telescopeclassics.com, not Wikipedia.  I don't see any affiliation to Wikipedia there.

 

(Wiki's are shared community resources that are collaboratively generated and maintained.  While Wikipedia uses Wiki's, they aren't unique to Wikipedia.)

 

ETA:

 

https://en.wikipedia...istory_of_wikis

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki


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Posted 25 February 2025 - 06:18 PM

Yes, but that wiki is hosted by telescopeclassics.com, not Wikipedia.  I don't see any affiliation to Wikipedia there.

 

(Wiki's are shared community resources that are collaboratively generated and maintained.  While Wikipedia uses Wiki's, they aren't unique to Wikipedia.)

 

ETA:

 

https://en.wikipedia...istory_of_wikis

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

Yes it is just the same software, but it is outstanding for this role. I would be more than willing to do the editing if people want to send me their scans. Don't do this yet :) I don't know who owns the site. Years ago there was a guy around here who started the original site, geodata.mumble.mumble something and that got shut down, and another of us migrated the information to the Wiki-like site.

 

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Posted 25 February 2025 - 06:23 PM

In response to this post in The Giveaway thread, as it is a better fit here:
 


Archive.org's wayback machine is a repository chronicling the history of the majority of internet. As such, it's imperative that the resources shown are exactly as they appeared when captured.
 
That said, I've mirrored the site and hosted it here: https://islandastronomy.com/classics/. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to submit additional documents or if you find any 404s.

Thank-you!



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Posted 01 March 2025 - 08:24 PM

Excellent job!

 

Who runs the "Classic Telescope Wiki" here?

 

https://wiki.telesco...m/wiki/Catalogs

 

The replaced the old site that was hosted on an environmental protection website in California. I don't think any changes have been made is a long time. The layout is very good.

 

-drl

That site is hosted by Dan (CN user name Datapanic). It also hosts the Cave Mirror Registry. Dan isn't on this forum much anymore but was last seen on Jan 29th.


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Posted 03 March 2025 - 08:24 AM

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