Constans, Camille (C.C.) wrote:
I have an idea, we had converted the frwiki by converting all the dump in one time. I took around 2 hours for 2.5GB of dump We could convert all tables except old, the biggest and the longest. And running a script which convert old later. Old will be in broken iso-8859 for a few day. I wrote a small php script to convert old from iso-8859-1 to utf-8, cause I broke old on de.wiktionary during the conversion to utf-8 (I forgot that old is gzipped, converting a binary is not very good:) )
What do you think about ?
That would be really problematic, it would interfere with user contributions lists and history, diffs, etc, could cause data corruption on reversions (auto and manual), and you'll have to be very careful to avoid double conversions.
I'd recommend strongly against it.
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