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How to copy and edit pages from Destinypedia

Welcome to Destinypedia! The Destiny wiki and definitive source for Destiny information that anyone can *copy*. Last updated:

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Welcome!

To preface this I want you to know that Destinpedia has this section where you can do something similiar on-site. However if you want to have a full control over the page you can just rip and edit a page and this is a tutorial on how to do it.

To do this you will need to know quite a bit about html and a bit about css. Also - it's a lot of editing! So you'll also need patience.

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Let's get to it

This tutorial doesn't cover mobile version - the page will still display but it will look like pc version. Also the page doesn't support switching between light and dark mode (but I mean. Who wants to get their eyes blasted by Destinypedia light mode?).

Copying the page

  1. Make a folder where you want to store the page (or not, you do you).
  2. Go to a page you want to rip.
  3. Rightclick anywhere on the page and choose "Save the page as...". This should give you a folder and a .htm file in your downloads folder.
  4. Go back to the folder on your Neocities you've created and upload the .htm file there.
  5. Create a folder in the same place as the .htm file and name it like the folder you've just downloaded.
  6. Upload the contents of the folder on your computer to that folder. Done.

Editing the page

  1. Change the title of the page.
  2. Delete the google analitics code.
    <script async="" src="[articlename]_files/google-analytics_analytics.js"></script>
  3. Fix the link color by puting this somewhere in the .htm file: 
                          
                      <style>
                      a:link {
                      color: #00A0FF !important;
                      background-color: transparent;
                      }
                      a:visited {
                      color: #00A0FF !important;
                      background-color: transparent;
                      }
                      </style>
  4. The most difficult part is changing the background. I'm lazy so I decided to stuck my page in darkmode because it's easier that way.
  5. Go to load_003, find "https://destiny.wiki.gallery/images/9/9a/HQyeD3R.jpg" with search tool and change it to "https://destiny.wiki.gallery/images/7/73/DP_Dark-bg.jpg".
  6. Paste 
    "; background-repeat: no-repeat;background-attachment: fixed; background-size: 100%"
    between 
    "url(https://destiny.wiki.gallery/images/7/73/DP_Dark-bg.jpg)" 
    and
     " repeat-x left top".
  7. Delete "repeat-x left top / contain".
  8. Go back the .htm page. The actual editing really starts after around 550th line with the "Did you know…?" box. The article title should be around 600th line.
  9. Make sure to change/delete the "Recent contributors" part for clarity.

Notes

Some things I think are important about the process.

  • You can delete images of the contributors from the folder. Also you can only have one image of your character, it doesn't really change anything.
  • I recomment starting by titying up the code.
  • Pick an article that has the most similiar structure to yours. I picked Asher because I was also making a guardian page.
  • Use "find on the page" tool in your browser to find you you haven't forgotten to delete something.

And that's it! If you have any ideas on how to improve/fix this process, let me know.