This website holds a lot of valuable information, representing tens of thousands of hours of work. To recreate it would take literally years, and in some cases the information is irreplaceable as the original contributors have already passed away.

As a website is a surprisingly fragile thing, this newsletter looks at some of the steps that are in place to keep the Gwulo's information available for the long term.

1. Backups: Coping with short-term damage

A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2017.

#10 - UA-Citygate Cinema / UA 東薈城戲院 [2000-2016] (6,729 views)

This is a modern cinema, so you might be surprised to see its page on Gwulo, and in the top ten! The page is part of a larger project to document Hong Kong's cinemas (see #4 below), and I guess it attracted web searchers looking for information after the cinema was closed.

Read about the UA-Citygate Cinema / UA 東薈城戲院 [2000-2016]

A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2016.

#10 - A wintertime wander through Shau Kei Wan (8,977 views)

Join Phil and me exploring Shau Kei Wan: A temple, tunnels, British military sites (including one relic over 170 years old), a mysterious pillar and lots of curvy buildings.

In Part 1, we looked at the slides Ms. Lorraine J. Ford took with her own camera when she visited Hong Kong in May 1960. Today we'll look at the first of two sets of commercially-taken slides that she bought during her visit. There's good news that there are lots more scenes than in Part 1, but also bad news in that time hasn't been kind to the bought slides. Many of them have developed a strong red tint, so when I scan them they look like this: