Magnus Manske wrote:
- As Wikipedia articles have no author, there's no authorship.
Well, there was a good bit of useful data there. There is authorship in some sense, and we do like to keep the history.
- AFAIK, the UseModWiki only stored the changes of the last two weeks (or
something like that).
It was previously two weeks, but I extended it, I forget how long, but our intention is to keep the history more or less permanently, subject to disk space constraints. (But disk space is cheap.)
- AFAIK, there will be "old.wikipedia.com", with a patched UseModWiki that
doesn't allow to edit/save articles, only view them, with the contents from before the switch.
That's right. But we should still see about getting the old history into the new database if it isn't impossible.
- The reason why I didn't convert the article history as well as the
"current" versions is simply that I didn't figure out how to read the UseModWiki history format. I asked several times, even on the 'pedia, for help, but...
*nod* I don't know the answer to this. I've tried it myself and did not succeed.
Maybe Clifford Adams could help us?