On mer, 2002-03-20 at 13:57, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Bryan Derksen wrote:
Last I saw on the bug report page: "We introduced new separate tables for the linking information, but they were only filled with a tiny fraction of the actual links. This is mainly due to me not telling Jimbo clearly enough what he should do. I've given him new instructions now and hopefully Jimbo gets around soon to redo the procedure soon. Apologies for the inconvenience. --Jan Hidders 2002 Feb 27 "
Not meaning to sound demanding, of course, but that particular bit of housekeeping is starting to get in the way of some of the stuff I've been doing.
Well, I'm not sure what the status is on this. :-(
One problem was that there was a script that needed to be run zillions of times over and over from the web. A commandline tool would be a lot better, because I could just open a window, run it, and come back hours later when it is done.
Run as "php rebuildLinks.php". I've just checked in a fix to CVS that disables the execution time limit and goes for all entries by default, so it'll take as long as it needs without timing out.
I'll try tweaking the wiki conversion script to import the old usemod article histories similarly painlessly.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)