Kurt Jansson wrote:
Okay, I just wanted to say "Thank you!" to everybody who made this possible: Lee, Brion, Magnus, and everybody else involved. The new software has a really nice "feel", and the features are just great. I knew the software from the English Wikipedia, but it's another thing to see it on "our own" wiki.
As the first non-English to get a production conversion, you're the guinea pigs. Keep finding those problems for us. ;)
I'd like to delete a few pages (empty ones, of course <g>), and make some database queries (yes, I'll be careful), so could someone please make me admin, sysop or whatever I need to be able to do this?
Poof, you're a sysop.
It would be nice to have the old German usemod Wikipedia on a subdomain, just in case something got lost on the way to the new database (like the talk pages from our HomePage). If we do this, could we prevent google and others from indexing it?
I second this; the old stuff needs to be accessible, at least until everyone's confident that large swathes of data aren't missing (anymore).
Which reminds me: how can I get at the old Usemod database for the English wikipedia? I'd like to get the old revisions merged in at some point, but I can't do it without the data!
Google has indexed test-de.wikipedia.com and de-beta.wikipedia.com, so maybe we should redirect from there to www.wikipedia.de, if we don't already do this.
de-beta.wikipedia.org should already bring up the correct wiki; test-de.wikipedia.com needs to be changed in the DNS. Jimbo, Jason?
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