User:MarioMario456/restoration guide

Here's a more in-depth explanation of how to restore shit from old ED. It includes some useful tricks and methods I use when restoring shit, to ensure the restoration work is high quality.

General notes

1. If you're looking to add your own methods to this page, then do so. Many of you fellow EDiots have your own methods of restoring shit, so I'm not gonna restrict this page to "just me".

Restoring images

1. Copy and paste the URL of the article with missing images into both the Wayback Machine and archive.today, and replace .online with .rs.
2. Select the newest archive from both of these sites (make sure it's from BEFORE August 24, 2019).
3. Most of the time, the missimg image will be a thumbnail and not the full image (this can be noticed if the image you're downloading starts with "(anything)px-"). To get the full images, there are various methods, but these are what I use:
   1. Sometimes, the Wayback Machine has the full image. To get it, right-click the missing image, select "Open image in a new tab" and remove "thumb/" and "/Xpx-Y.png" shit (for example, "thumb/a/ab/Example.png/300px-Example.png" becomes "a/ab/Example.png"). If you're lucky, Wayback will have the full image. PROTIP: If the page title is "Wayback Machine" and not the filename of the image, Wayback doesn't have the image, use the other methods.
   2. If Wayback doesn't have the full image, try to Google the filename (make sure that your search doesn't contain the "File:" prefix). If it doesn't find anything, try again but replacing all the spaces with underscores.
   3. If you couldn't find the missing image on Google Images, you can try to use the filename to identify the source of the image. Common filenames used by websites include:
      • maxresdefault.jpg, hqdefault.jpg or anything similar: YouTube thumbnail.
      • (name) by (artist)-(seven random letters).(file extension): deviantART. (You need an account to download images)
      • (three random characters).(file extension): Know Your Meme.
   4. If you couldn't find the sauce, try to reverse image search the original. If it doesn't find the image you're looking for, try to replace the text Google guessed with the article name. Download the highest-resolution image that looks the most like the image you're restoring (make sure it isn't a shitty upscale), and reupload it here, with the filename of the missing image.
   5. If you couldn't find higher-resolution versions of the thumbnail, upload the thumbnail, but make sure to tag this thumbnail with {{thumb}} so that our competent team of SysOps and EDitors can find higher-quality versions.
   6. If the image is broken on the archive, tag the article with the missing images in question with {{MissingImages}}.
4. Repeat from step 3.

Some notes:

1. Most of the time, the Wayback Machine will have an archive, but archive.today will not. However, we'll do this for the sake of both: 1. redundacy; and 2. to make sure archive.today has a newer archive than Wayback.
2. If you get a .webp file instead of a .jpg or .png (this is a big problem when grabbing images from WordPress blogs), try to download the image with wget or curl (if you use Linux, both of these should be preinstalled), it will bypass the .webp shit.
   • iFunny will most of the time serve the image as .webp, but this can be easily bypassed by changing the extension on the URL to .jpg. Also, crop that watermark.
3. If you're lucky enough to have the original image saved, upload it by yourself.
4. Once you have saved the image, remove the .rs exif data from the photo using an external website. That way the image won’t clog up the wiki with its filesize.
5. Sometimes, Know Your Meme has similar (and sometimes identical) versions of the missing images. So, make sure to open the page's respective KYM article and go to the "Images" section.

Restoring the latest revision of articles

The latest ED article archive we used is from early 2019, just a few months before ED2 was dun goofed. However, this also means that some articles are missing newer information.

1. Copy and paste the URL of the article with missing images into both the Wayback Machine and archive.today, and replace dramatica.online with encyclopediadramatica.rs.
2. Select the newest archive from both of these sites (make sure it's from BEFORE August 24, 2019).
3. Go to the page history on .online. If the latest revision is newer than the one from .rs, ignore this article and look for another one.
4. Try to view the source code on .rs (note that this only works properly on Wayback, it will redirect you to the dead .rs on archive.today, unless someone archived the wikitext at archive.today). If the source code is from an older revision, try to reconstruct the source code of the latest (archived) revision.