On Jun 16, 2014 5:53 AM, "John Mark Vandenberg" <jayvdb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could we have our cake and eat it?
>
> pywikipedia-l closes down as-is, but remains accessible so that
> existing links work properly.
>
> pywikibot is a clone of pywikipedia, with the archives roughly
> stitched together, but the ops team able to take any and all shortcuts
> in the process.

I think you should do it right if you're going to do it. But as Ryan says, you have to be sure.

There's not really even such a thing as a rename AFAIK. Rename is make a new list and copy over the config to the new list and then set the right new list name in new list settings and then copy over the archives. Also, set redirects at the old name for both HTTP and SMTP. And this whole time you're either hoping no one mails the list or you've stopped message processing for every list on the server. (they are queued not lost)

I guess then you also need to regenerate archives to fix some links. But old links will keep working as redirects so maybe that's not critical. (I know first hand that regenerating archives even without having done surgery can be a problem)

-Jeremy