[INDOLOGY] NGMCP

[Tyler Neill]

Hi folks,

To catch list members up, this issue now seems to be at least partly solved.

The issue was that the "Descriptive Catalogue" wiki (linked to here
<https://ngmcp.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/>) was temporarily not working. During
some offline conversations about how to use the SQL dump to recreate it,
Dominik noticed that someone at Hamburg apparently completed an important
part of the archiving process. The "Descriptive Catalogue" link at the
above page now leads to a working title list
<https://www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/ngmcp/index.html> with links to the
original wiki HTML content. In other words: it's not Mediawiki anymore,
some ancillary wiki pages (e.g. all the categories) are gone, and the
search interface now involves manually searching a plain-looking HTML page,
but at least we can now access the content again. I'm not in contact with
anyone at Hamburg, so I don't know whether the archiving project is still
in progress. Please also correct any errors in this account of things if
you see them.

I've gone and created a mirror of this content and title list using GitHub
pages, to preserve at least that much, in case it ever goes down again:
https://tylergneill.github.io/ngmcp-wiki-mirror/
<https://tylergneill.github.io/ngmcp-wiki-mirror/>

Kind regards,
Tyler

---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com>
> To: Indology <indology at list.indology.info>
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> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 16:23:58 -0600
> Subject: [INDOLOGY] NGMCP
> I tried to look up a manuscript in the NGMCP wiki (descriptive) database
> just now, and hit a brick wall
> <https://www-archiv.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/ngmcp/ngmcp.html>.  While this
> service wasn't ideal, it was very useful indeed.  But now it is apparently
> suddenly gone.
>
> The page you get to suggests running a search of the type
>
> <search title> site:https://ngmcp.fdm.uni-hamburg.de/
>
> but I've tried that and it doesn't work well.  Items I know very well are
> in the Wiki do not get returned. Many searches do not return any
> information, when the old wiki interface definitely used to.
>
> This is awful, a serious retrograde step.
>
> Could someone put me in touch with whoever is in charge of the remnants of
> the NGMCP project?  I would like to discuss some ideas for improving the
> situation.  This is very important and I am willing to put some resources
> into this effort if required.
>
> Sincerely,
> Dominik Wujastyk
>
>
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> University of Alberta
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