On Dec 8, 2003, at 04:38, Erik Moeller wrote:
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?
That's what I was going to ask you! :) That's exactly what we've done for the Frisian, Finnish, and other wikis, on request.
Does the script break anything?
Hopefully not, other than that it doesn't attempt to make up for the difference in case-sensitivity between UseModWiki and MediaWiki, which breaks a lot of links. (Most links with more than one word that aren't proper names.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)