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2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
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Home / Help - InfoBox Templates
This page will link to the various InfoBox templates available in this wiki.
Click on a template link to view the usage help:
InfoBox Fields
Here is where we will figure out the various fields each InfoBox needs to have.
The main sections of this wiki are:
- Company
- Convention
- Hardware
- People
- Publication
- Software
I think we should have an InfoBox for each of those sections.
Common
Every InfoBox will have the following fields:
- Name (will use PAGENAME if not specified)
- Photo (will use PAGENAME.jpg if not specified)
- Caption (photo caption)
- Info Source (where did the data come from? Link to other website, or note magazine article, etc.)
- Year - - Year of release/first year (used as a Category)
- Notes
Most items should have a "Category" and "Type". Not sure how to do this. For instance "Game -> Shooter", or "Utility -> Disk".
Company
- End Year - last year operated
- Location - City, State, country they were located?
Convention
- End Year - last year held
- Location - City, State, country they were located?
Hardware
- Category - Cartridge, Serial, ???
- Type - Floppy, Hard Drive, RS232, ???
People
Publication
- Category - Book, Magazine, Newsletter?
- Type - Hardback, Paperback, Floppy Disk, ???
- End Year - last year published
- ISBN
- ISBN-13
- Language
- Pages - how many pages
- Publisher
- Volume - ?
We need something to mark it as a "Book" versus "Magazine" versus "Newsletter", etc.
Software
- Category - Game, Productivity, Utility, OS, etc. (used as a Category)
- Type - Shooter, Word Processor, Disk, etc. (used as a Category)
- Media - Cassette, Disk, ROM-Pak (used as a Category)
- Graphics Mode - VDG/GIME mode: 32, 80, 256x192x2, etc. (used as a Category)
- Memory - 32K, 64K, 128K, etc. (used as a Category)
- Platform - CoCo 1/2, CoCo 3 (used as a Category)
- Requires - Joysticks, 6309, etc.
When I make the master InfoBox, it will be the "one box to rule them all" and include the various sections depending on the type specified. Because of that, fields that are common to subsets need to be noted -- i.e., Software and Hardware might both have Category and Type, but only software would have Graphics Mode.