Jay R. Ashworth schrieb:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 01:33:42PM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
Magnus Manske wrote:
I have added an option to Special:Export that will add a list of all contributors of a page to the XML output. The list is distinct (each contributor mentioned only once). I also expanded the XML converter to use this. (Brion et al.: please put the new Special:Export on the live sites soon)
That would be way too expensive, no can do.
Since I'm about to develop an interest in Magnus's translator, a) magnus: can you expand on what you need the new Export for, and brion, b) is there any chance it will go in the mainline distro, even if it's too expensive for the WMF sites?
I have put it back in, with an option, off by default. It can be activated in LocalSettings.php.
AFAIK, for GFDL compliance, a list of the five main authors has to be given along with the document. For automatic processing, that means all contributors. Thus, without such a list, no GFDL-compliant document can be created automatically.
Right now, I'm thinking of screenscraping the page history for the last 100000 revisions. It would be ugly to code, but it will only use existing MediaWiki functions, so no worry about costs there, right? ;-)
BTW, I just tried that (manually) for GWB. Has been running for a few minutes, still not done. Possible DOS approach? We might want to fix that...
Magnus