Thank you very much for the forward, Nemo.
Ariel, could you please post to these lists if/when you're having IRC discussions on this topic? It's of the highest importance to me and Aaron Halfaker at least, and to many others. I have written down some ideas in the article that I would like to defend in meetings / debates.
On Saturday, February 21, 2015, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
FYI
-------- Messaggio inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [Xmldatadumps-l] Your comments needed (long term dumps rewrite?) Data: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:30:01 +0200 Mittente: Ariel Glenn WMF ariel@wikimedia.org A: Xmldatadumps-l@lists.wikimedia.org
The MediaWiki Core team has opened a discussion about getting more involved in and maybe redoing the dumps infrastructure. A good starting point is to understand how folks use the dumps already or want to use them but can't, and some questions about that are listed here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_MediaWiki_Core_ Team/Backlog/Improve_dumps I've added some notes but please go weigh in. Don't be shy about what you do/what you need, this is the time to get it all on the table.
Ariel