weedendrider, I should have addressed this earlier. A lot of people don't have backups of what they had posted on 650rider, that is why I posted for people not to go crazy when it is back up because I could image 200 new threads in one day and setting up the redirects would be crazy. If you have a tech write up saved on your computer that is also on 650rider and want to post it here, that's fine as long as you aren't concerned with saving he replies that your tech write up received over at 650rider. If you repost almost identical information here, that thread from 650rider won't get transferred but a redirect will be put in it's place and those replies will be lost. (Well not lost, because I'll always have access to them, but they won't be displayed on either site).
Now maybe you posted a long tech article and received just a few insignificant replies that didn't really add to the tech article. Maybe you then posted a little more information on say post 10 in that thread. Re-posting it over here might be the way to go since it'll allow you clean up the tech article by merging the two relevant posts and not transferring the insignificant posts.
If you go that route, once I start the 650rider transfer forum, be sure to indicate that this information has already been re-posted here and provide the link to the thread on 650rider, as well as the link to the thread here. Otherwise, that information on 650 rider will probably get identified as worth saving and be transferred here and we'll have two almost identical threads.
Now for things like build and restoration threads and certain tech threads, you might want to have the thread transferred here so that it can preserve all of the discussion and updates that typically go into one of those threads.
inxs and Skull said it well:
...in some ways it would be better to recreate the knowledge with the advantage of hindsight...i keep many of my posts filed on a reserve harddrive or usb stick...
As i said earlier the info from 650rider it can never be recreated as the treads themselves evolve with ideas and information that can never be read in a write up.
So I'm trying to accommodate both views while keeping the redirects organized. If someone created a thread over there that would be nice to clean up and rework into a great tech article, then by all means post it here in whatever manner you wish. If there is a thread there that evolved quite nicely and contains a lot of tech from a lot of different members, and someone wants to preserve that, hopefully we can get it all transferred over just like it was.
So once we get 650rider is back up, the plan is for people to identify which threads and information should be transferred and which ones the owners want to recreate here. If something is recreated, I'll need the link for the thread there and for the thread here.
So if you have saved content that you already know you want to re-create here rather than having me transfer it, go ahead and post it! Just remember that once the 650rider transfer forum is started, to post in there with links to both threads.
I hope all of that makes sense to everyone and if not, it should all come together once the forum is set up and people start to identify the content to be transferred over and the content to be re-created here.
Now having said all of that. There is the possibility that the transfer process won't go as smoothly as I hope it will and we'll end up having to re-create everything here anyway or just leave it on 650rider as and archived site. So I guess the list will be of content to be re-created no matter if the transfer works or not, and content to be transferred if possible.
Why do these responses end up being so long?!
I just re-read your post and realized that I didn't even really answer your questions so here goes:
Travis would you rather mine the info from 650rider or would/should those who have diagrams, tips, tricks go ahead an post photos to their albums? The tip/tech write ups. Just post as a thread and link to those threads as you are doing now? Or posted as pdf's that could be saved or printed by a memeber/user?
I think I addressed this pretty well except for the PDFs. Most tech stuff should probably be a thread so it can be expanded upon and clarified, but if you have something that is pretty well refined and complete, then a PDF is fine.
imho it would save time and add to the knowledge base if members would go ahead and repost to this site.
If the scripts all work fine for transferring threads to here, it doesn't really matter if one thread is transferred or a 1000. Having the computer transfer over threads (if it works) would save time rather than having a lot of members spending a lot of time transferring the content themselves. So I guess it comes down to who's time are we saving? Anyway, I think content should be moved here in a manner that will help create a better XS650 resource and best serve the site members rather than worrying about which is quicker.