Yes, I agree! It will be fine to use the German wiki. It is large enough to have lots of links to test, but small enough to be quick and easy.
Magnus Manske wrote:
Larry, that's a misunderstanding: We only want to copy the German data to my test wiki!
Don't panic, Magnus
-----Original Message----- From: lsanger@nupedia.com [mailto:lsanger@nupedia.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:13 PM To: Michael Dill Cc: Magnus Manske; jwales@bomis.com; lsanger@nupedia.com Subject: RE: PHP wikipedia
What we need is a test wiki. I don't much like the idea of using the German wiki as a test wiki--they've done a huge amount of work already, and we don't want to mess it up. Maybe we can make a copy of it and put it at http://test.wikipedia.com/ .
Larry
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Michael Dill wrote:
Magnus,
Go ahead and try the German version for the first tests. We can probably get Clifford Adams or someone to help sort out the current perl/CGI data formats. I beleve that Jimbo might have some information there...
I don't know enough to help with the data conversion, but if we cant get any support from Clifford or someone at BOMIS, I will see if I can find a programmer or two to look at the tarball and help you with the structure.
Jimbo,
Would you help point us in the right direction here.
Thanks to you all for great work!
Mike Dill Phone 408-545-3675
--- Magnus Manske Magnus.Manske@epost.de wrote:
--- Mike Dill michael_dill@yahoo.com wrote:
Yes, call the current PHP script at wikipedia.sourceforge.net a Beta.
OK!
I think we need to clear out everything in the
test
database and see how to install a copy of the
current
data. This will allow us to test/debug the script
for
the data conversion. It will probably take a dozen trys at porting it before we get the conversion
script
into a reasonable shape. Then we can ask all the wikipedians to look at all the pages to check for
the
remaining script inconsistancies.
We not necessarily need to clean the DB. And, should we try another wikipedia (e.g., the German one) first? It's much smaller, so conversion won't take that long for the first tries. If that works, we can purge the DB and install the "real thing". What do you think?
If we can get those bugs out, then asking Jimbo to make the transition would be a reasonable
proposition.
Until we can port the current data with some
accuracy,
I feel that we should not push it on the world.
Agreed.
Lets try a data convertion from the tarball and
see
what comes out. When it seems reasonable to us
then
Larry and Jimbo can decide when it should be implemented.
I looked at the German tarball, which seems to be quite old, and I suppose the "real" data is in the "page" sub-sub-...-subdir. Do you know if that's it? Are just the old versions stored as diffs, or the current version as well? I'm not that good at perl/CGI, so...
Magnus
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