Microsoft KB Archive: Difference between revisions

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This is a new part of the wiki - an archive of all Microsoft KB articles (currently with >210000 articles). And perhaps the only archive where you can help make it better and more complete!

See A guide to mass-adding files for a guide on how this was done. This could also be adapted for other situations as well.

Click here to view the forum announcement for this archive. We particularly thank 3155GGfd for allowing us to import his massive collection into the archive.

Important: The copyright requirements for this section are different from the rest of the wiki. Please read the wiki guidelines; this part of the wiki is NOT released under a free licence and reproduction is NOT allowed without prior permission from a moderator or administrator. The main reason is that these articles are technically owned by Microsoft, unlike the rest of the wiki (where the articles are by the individual contributors).

Guidelines

See Guidelines.

List of KB articles

Click here to see the full list of KB articles

You may also use the below to search for any KB article (number or text):

If you want to see a small subset (~20000?) in one page, you may want to check out List of KB articles.

The images themselves are available as a category at Category:Microsoft KB Archive.

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-This is a proposed new feature - an archive of all Microsoft KB articles.
+This is a new part of the wiki - an archive of all Microsoft KB articles (currently with >210000 articles). And perhaps the only archive where you can help make it better and more complete!
-For now, place them as a subpage of this page - so for KB article KB1234567, it should be at Microsoft_KB_Archive/1234567, or [[/1234567/]]. For a real example, see [[/216417/]]. Do NOT include the KB in the link.
+See [[/A guide to mass-adding files/]] for a guide on how this was done. This could also be adapted for other situations as well.
-==Guidelines==
-* Maintain the Microsoft KB structure as much as possible. See [[/216417/]] for an example. Headings should be in H2 form (that is, <code><nowiki>== title == </nowiki></code>).
+[[forum:41583|Click here to view the forum announcement for this archive]]. We particularly thank 3155GGfd for allowing us to import his massive collection into the archive.
-* Do not blindly copy-paste to the wiki - make sure that the formatting is correct.
-* Standard wiki rules with attribution apply - which means that you must attribute the source if you got it from, say, web.archive. Include the link in "Sources".
-* It is fine to add links to other parts of the wiki (for example one to Windows 2000 as can be seen in the sample article).
-==A guide to mass-adding files==
+'''Important:''' The copyright requirements for this section are different from the rest of the wiki. Please read the [[BetaArchive_Wiki:Wiki_Guidelines|wiki guidelines]]; this part of the wiki is '''NOT''' released under a free licence and reproduction is NOT allowed without prior permission from a moderator or administrator. The main reason is that these articles are technically owned by Microsoft, unlike the rest of the wiki (where the articles are by the individual contributors).
-''Multiple unnecessary restrictions by the admins make this harder than it should be''
+== Guidelines ==
+See [[/Guidelines/]].
+== List of KB articles ==
+<span class="mw-ui-button {{#switch: {{{color|white}}} | red = mw-ui-destructive | green = mw-ui-progressive | white = | blue = mw-ui-progressive}}" role="button" aria-disabled="false">{{{1|[https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php?from=Microsoft+KB+Archive&to=&namespace=0&title=Special%3AAllPages Click here to see the full list of KB articles]}}}</span>
-''''This is a short guide on how to import KB articles located in MSDN help files into this wiki.
+''You may also use the below to search for any KB article (number or text):''
-# Look for the .htm file that contains the KB files you want.
+<div style="float:{{dir|{{pagelang}}|left|left}}; width:24em">
-# Use 7zip to extract all the files inside it into a directory of your choice.
+<inputbox>
-# Navigate to one of the directories. You should see full of files of the for''Q''[number].htm.
+type=fulltext
-# Use the pandoc program to convert all the files inside it into MediaWiki. Use a different file extension, and convert it into a different folder. For example, if you want to convert them into a folder convert, use the command (on Linux/WSL)for f in *.htm; do pandoc "$f" -f html -t mediawiki -s -o "${f%}.txt"; done.
+placeholder=Try: KB123456 or Microsoft KB Archive/123456
+</inputbox>
+</div>
-==List of KB articles==
+If you want to see a small subset (~20000?) in one page, you may want to check out [[/List of KB articles/]].
-''Obviously under construction.''
-<splist
+The images themselves are available as a category at [[:Category:Microsoft KB Archive]].
- showparent=yno
- sort=asc
- sortby=title
- liststyle=bar
- showpath=no
- kidsonly=no
- debug=0
-/>