Suggestion for the comicgenesis wiki / broken links

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blarghblargh
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Suggestion for the comicgenesis wiki / broken links

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I love checking out new comics, which is why I usually end up stumbling on your site every couple of months. And I run into the same problem every time. I don't know if I'm using your site wrong, or if no one else has noticed this problem, but here it is. I'll tell you exactly what I did in case I'm using your site wrong.

On your main page, you give a selection of web comic genre links to choose from. I click on "science fiction". This brings me to an unrelated page in the comic genesis wiki, where I can find a link in the first paragraph called "enter the guide", which will presumably help me find comics from your site. This brings me to a page I'm quite pleased to see, called "Categories". I click on "content", assuming this is where I can find the science fiction.

I find the "science fiction" link, and click it. This new page is for sub-categories. I click on "time travel". And now I'm brought to a page with some unusual names, presumably links to the actual web comics on your site.

And here's my problem. Every single one of those links is empty. I click on every link, and with the exception of the first web comic, the same message pops up: "There is currently no text on this page."

I've done this with a number of categories and subcategories, and they're all empty. I'm given the option to search for the web comics on the search data base thingy, so I do, and not surprisingly, the search comes out empty-handed.

Is there any way you can...fix that? Or maybe just delete all of the category links, seeing as they lead to empty pages? The last handful of times I've checked here, they've also been empty, so it's not a recent thing.

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Re: Suggestion for the comicgenesis wiki / broken links

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Bump, because it's been 12 days...

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Re: Suggestion for the comicgenesis wiki / broken links

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There was a CG wiki server update in November, I think. From what I can tell (because I had my comic listed there), that effectively erased all the data in the comics for some reason, but not the comic listings themselves, or the categories those comics had placed themselves in. Unless a comic has updated their info since then there's nothing.
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Allroses wrote:There was a CG wiki server update in November, I think.
Unfortunately, the wikimedia software tends to change in substantial ways between updates that results in things disappearing.

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I hope I sent the right e-mails... oO
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