"MacGyverMagic/Mgm" wrote:
>Has anyone got a clue for how long the database will be locked for this
>update?
Some hours, don't know how long exactly. Probably less than a full day,
but no guarantee. :)
All our other wikis remain open for editing in the meantime, so feel
free to slake your wiki-thirst in Commons, Wiktionary, Wikinews, etc or
Wikipedia in another language while
en.wikipedia.org is locked.
Phil Boswell wrote:
Is this causing the strange doubling effect wherein
the last edit is
appearing twice at the top of each history page, and single-diffs are
failing?
Yes. The old database schema stored the current revision and older
revisions in separate databases. The new schema rearranges things so
revision data is stored in one place more consistently.
The conversion works by first copying the current data in to where we
had the old revisions, then breaking that off into the new text-storage,
revision-metadata, and page tables.
So in the meantime if you look at history, you will see two copies of
the current revision -- one in each table.
...and is it possible to make the notice announcing
the upgrade a little
larger?
I sailed into a correct without noticing the Site-Notice and was somewhat
startled to face the "locked-out" version of the edit page.
I'll poke at it a bit...
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)