On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 07:38 +0200, MaPhi Werner wrote:
Overnight? There is no "overnight" on a system that's accessed world-wide, 24x7.
In my opinion, if the wiki syntax is changed dramatically, then the db table should receive a new column called "syntax version". This would allow the parser to distinguish between old and new syntax, rendering both correctly.
That's another way to do the conversion: leave both parsers in for the time it takes to do the update. By "overnight" I mean "10-20 hours, or however long it takes". I don't think making the English Wikipedia read-only for that long is unacceptable at all (and all the others are small enough that it's not an issue).