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) 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 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/ 

Kind regards,
Tyler

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From: Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk@gmail.com>
To: Indology <indology@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.  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 


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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