On 8 Dec 2003, Erik Moeller wrote:
Brion-
The primary purpose of the conversion script is to preserve the page editing histories. That is the one thing that the current one _does_; it requires manual fixing up of case changes, namespaces, images, etc.
Then why not use the semi-working conversion script and let the users do the rest of the work by hand? Does the script break anything?
Having done the handwork for fy:, I can say that it's quite a bit of work. However, the work can be _greatly_ diminished by running the recently implemented update script for the links-table after the move, since the most work is in making an edit to every page to do so. Apart from that, one will have to move every page of which the title is wrongly capitalized (the script will capitalize every word), and move every page that should go to another namespace.
On fy: the conversion cost me about 4 1/2 hours for 120 pages. In the same speed, a really large phase I Wikipedia (ca: or it:) would cost about 180 man-hours. However, as said the hardest work (updating the link tables) can probably now be automated, which makes the process much faster.
Andre Engels