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Can anyone help me?

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by user Alex Holowczak

You may or may not have noticed (probably the latter), that myself, and more latterly Thecrookedcap have been working on the Formula One section of the wiki-section of the site.

I am working my way through from 1950-2006, and after putting in the schedules, I hope to expand further, by writing reports with results for each of the races, and putting profiles in place for everybody involved.

Fundamental to this is the F1 calendar.

I have managed to do the results page for F1-1950 through F1-1991, and with the frailties to my computer, I am struggling to get work on it with such intensity lately.

The template is already in place for the schedules, all that needs to be done is to copy and paste the year's schedule you are doing, and copying and pasting it to the next year, (which have links on the page). You would then need to copy and paste each Grand Prix result onto the Grand Prix page, deleting the flag column and Grand Prix column. (This is all that needs to be done on F1-1996 and F1-1997 Note it is simpler to do than to explain.

There are a few complicated parts involving track configuration, but I would be happy to iron out the faults if some kind user put the raw format and results in place (i.e. the winning Driver and Constructor).

I will do the drivers' standings for 1950 and then that format too can be copied and pasted to a new page (again linked to each year's page).

If some kind, generous, (or even bored) user could find it in their hearts to help me with this project, I would be grately appreciative.

By the way, I will not be slacking on it, when my computer works, I will be linking all the tracks together neatly, and writing reports for each race in the history (about 800 Grands Prix... - which is the complicated stuff).

All the information is available on wikipedia, and by simply typing in "(insert year) Formula One season".

So if anyone could help Thecrookedcap and I, we would appreciate it, as we are both currently struggling to get time to work at it.

I will help you every step of the way, and I would answer any questions about it that you have. Each page can be found with the simple action of typing F1-(year) into the find box, and it will pop-up.

  • Sample work - F1-1991 - British Grand Prix - South African Grand Prix
  • I will be doing things like - Zandvoort - Reims - 1950 Monaco Grand Prix

I would like to hear from anyone that would like to help.

For anyone saying "Why bother if it is all on wikipedia?", believe me this is going to be much better! Proper reports for all races, track diagrams for all GPs, better Standings' tables, videos in the reports when appropriate. It'll take time, but it'll be good. This site could become the Number 1 stop for Formula One information on the Internet, and I believe this will be achievable over the next year or two. This would be a good way for anyone that wants to learn about Formula One to do so, and it will be helping the site in the process.

N.B. It doesn't take long - I just did F1-1992 and copies and pasted all the results to the Grand Prix page in about half an hour.

Date

Mon 07/24/06, 11:12 am EST


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Yakob878MVP
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great idea
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