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Shutting down
by Dominic Hargreaves 07 Jul '25

07 Jul '25

Hi all As we haven't had an active owner for some time, and it's mainly a source of spam these days, I will disable the cambridge open guide shortly. Best Dominic (openguides.org admin)

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[dom@earth.li: Re: [OGDev] A batch of abandoned Open Guides]
by Dominic Hargreaves 08 Dec '16

08 Dec '16

It turns out I forgot all about this list. See below for discusison of the future of cambridge.openguides.org. Cheers, Dominic. ----- Forwarded message from Dominic Hargreaves <dom(a)earth.li> ----- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 21:47:02 +0000 From: Dominic Hargreaves <dom(a)earth.li> To: OpenGuides software developers' list <openguides-dev(a)lists.openguides.org> Subject: Re: [OGDev] A batch of abandoned Open Guides On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 10:41:38AM +0000, Kake wrote: > On Tue 06 Dec 2016, Dominic Hargreaves <dom(a)earth.li> wrote: > > As I'm in the process of moving the config for the server in question, > > I'm looking at whether to migrate the following sites: > > > > http://copenhagen.openguides.org/ > > http://isle-of-wight.openguides.org/ > > http://north-devon.openguides.org/wiki/ > > http://portsmouth.openguides.org/ > > http://swindon.openguides.org/ > > > > These are all sites which seem to have very little genuine content, > > and (where edits are enabled) are sadly swamped by spam. > > Thanks for bringing this up. I wasn't aware some of those sites even > still existed! As a local historian, I would argue that keeping some > of these online but with the spam removed, edits disabled, and a clear > banner saying that they're no longer being updated might be the best > way to deal with the issue. For example, this page: > http://north-devon.openguides.org/wiki/?Terrace_Tapas_Bar might seem > useless, but actually I've made use of similar comments in my own > local history articles. > > Conversely, the Isle of Wight guide does seem not to have any real > content, so I see no reason to keep it. > > It's up to you, though, since you're the one who would have to do the > work of migration. Another option could be to clean up the spam and > then make sure everything's in the Internet Archive before deleting > the sites, though this makes it harder for a websearch to reveal the info. If there was any significant volume of content, or someone interested in keeping it running, I can put the effort in, but otherwise, I'm not sure I have the spare energy. (The owner of North Devon for example emailed me privately to say it should go). > > This site: > > > > http://cambridge.openguides.org/ > > > > has quite a lot of spam but also a reasonable amount of > > genuine content, even if not very up-to-date. > > I pretty much gave up on spamtrapping on the Cambridge guide because > it was non-trivial to update the spamcatcher module. Oxford seems to > be doing OK, though - is that all manual or is someone keeping the > spamcatcher module up to date? If the latter, could the two guides > share a spamcatcher module? Oxford uses an Akismet plugin: http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/tmp/Akismet.pm.txt I've just set Cambridge up to use that too. Dominic. -- OpenGuides-Dev mailing list - OpenGuides-Dev(a)lists.openguides.org http://lists.openguides.org/mailman/listinfo/openguides-dev ----- End forwarded message -----

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Introduction
by Dan 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hello people, Sorry for the delay getting here. I'm keen to help out here (many of the very old photos taken with a useless camera of pubs and colleges were my own work a long while ago). I'm famously disorganised and episodic, though, so I'm not much of an organiser, I'm not even much of a member, though I do have epic wiki binges from time to time. I hope I can be some use despite these things as I think this is a brilliant project! Dan.

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Into
by Neil McGovern 09 Nov '12

09 Nov '12

Hi all, Also a quick hello from me - I'm Cambridge based, and am CAMRA's current press officer. I'm also involved with various other bits an pieces around, but hope to keep the pub pages more up to date. Neil

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Hello world
by Lucy Sheppard 08 Nov '12

08 Nov '12

Hi all, I thought I'd set the ball rolling with a quick intro. I'm in Cambridge and may have some spare time on my hands in the near future, though any work I do on OGC is likely to be reactive editing of things I spot around town rather than proactive geekery. I'm subscribed to the digest version of this list, so I'll try not confuse replies, etc. Cheers, Lucy

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