User:Quiettype/Archive index proposal

Discussion should be in one location - on the Talk:Main Page

In order to track progress of restoration, encourage contribution and provide a lookup table, I think we need table (or set of tables) which show the list of old topics (now archived on http://www.gentoo-wiki.info) with corresponding new topics.

The resulting table could then be:
 * manually updated to include links to the new topics.
 * analysed by a bot to generate a 'togo/total old pages' thermometer style contribution banner to encourage restoration.
 * automatically updated by a bot if pages on this wiki contained a consistently formatted reference to the old site

e.g. Howto's:

Proposed method for creating the table (option 1):
Write a script to:
 * 1) download the next topic index page from each of the old index topics
 * 2) parse the page for topic links, throwing local anchor links, keeping section titles (for readability)
 * 3) add the resulting entry to a table (Title, old link, new link - where the new link was optional)
 * 4) save the resulting table
 * 5) upload the table to a topic

If the new link was simply a clone of the old page title, then:
 * Special:WantedPages could be used to track progress. But - this should never be empty.