On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Stan Shebs wrote:
Alfio Puglisi wrote:
To follow up on the issue... The italian wiki is totally in favor of switching to the new software as soon as possible, whatever is the manual workload to fix things afterwards. So, since we already have over 4,000 pages and it will only get worse with time, please let's do this soon. To lessen the workload of Brion, is there any other developer capable of doing this?
I'm not a developer, but helping with the manual fixup seems like a good way to improve my extremely limited knowledge of Italian. Is that plausible, and if so, what exactly is the kind of fixup work required?
Fixing up a just-imported wiki is mainly a matter of renaming many articles (most of the multi-word titles are going to have their capitalization wrong), and the links pointing to them. Pages that belong to different namespaces (Talk:) must be moved as well. Also, I'm not sure of what happens to user accounts and pages. At worst they will disappear :-) Ah, and if the links table is not automatically rebuilt, all pages must be re-saved at least once to rebuild it.
I'm not sure if this is a good exercise on Italian language, but any help is welcomed! Of course, the actual transition date is in our kind developers' hands. I hope i'm not bothering them too much :-)
Ciao, Alfio