On ven, 2003-01-24 at 15:28, Brion Vibber wrote:
Just a warning folks: later tonight I'll be taking
Wikipedia offline for
a bit for regular backups, and conversion to a different database table
format which should better withstand the heavy peer pressure that a
young wiki encounters as it discovers the wonder that is "a whole
frigging lot of users".
Okay,
www.wikipedia.org has been back online for about an hour and
hasn't exploded yet, so I'm declaring it a success for now.
Page view counters have been re-enabled on the English wiki, and the
special page blackout has returned to its previous half-day schedule. If
it holds up well enough, we should be able to remove the blackout
entirely, which I know will please certain Wikipedians. (Additionally,
caching of results is planned so that access to Most Wanted and Orphans
and whatnot will be lightning fast. But, that's not done yet. D'oh!)
If anyone encounters any exciting new database errors, or any oddness
related to searching (particularly with pages that have been recently
created, renamed, etc), please report it with as much detail as
possible.
Users of the other wikis, you might want to take a look too, as you'll
be converted next and will get the same bugs. ;)
Fresh backup dumps of all languages on phase III are available from:
http://http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
(Incidentally, this latest change should make future backup dumps
smaller, as the generated search index fields are moved to a separate
table.)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)