I have recently run my head up against the limitations of the conversion
script several times.
It can be very helpful to see if the talk comments refer to the current
version of an article, or to a previous version. Sometimes, this is
difficult to determine unless one can see the article history.
So, I'd like to see if we couldn't get
up and running, as
it does not seem like we are making much progress on importing the old
history into the new mySQL database.
Yours
Mark Christensen
-----Original Message-----
From: Jimmy Wales [mailto:jwales@bomis.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:43 PM
To: wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] History of pages, author issues.
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?
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