Timwi wrote:
I mean, we're not hosting anything for the users
except for their
preferences. A user can re-create an account (and re-set all
preferences) within a few minutes. Wouldn't it be worth starting with a
whole new userbase? It has the added bonus of getting rid of inactive
users in the old system.
Well, all of the article histories attribute edits to particular
people. So, you know, just starting over willy-nilly seems like a bad
idea to me.
Or perhaps we could make it so that a Phase-IV user
can "claim
ownership" of a Phase-III user (by entering their e-mail address and
password) and then all their article history and contributions will be
transferred to them.
Sure, something like that makes sense.
If I started this as another whole new Phase-IV
software, would there be
a chance it would be used on Wikipedia? As I'm sure you understand, I'm
reluctant to starting it if it's not going to be used anyway. And I
can't really judge this because I haven't been here for very long yet.
If yes, would anyone object if I bring us back to Perl this way? :-)
Yikes, I wouldn't recommend doing that. I personally wish it was perl
all along, but since I have only rarely coded anything since the old
UseMod days, and since I'm embarassed at how crufty my coding is (you
should see the bailing wire and chewing gum that holds Bomis
together!)...
But, really, it seems like we have a *lot* of really good code that
should be reused, even in a radical refactoring of the code?
--Jimbo