On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 11:00:17AM -0700, lcrocker(a)nupedia.com wrote:
I got all the conversion scripts working well now, and
the runtime
down to under 3 hours (it was over 12 when I started!), so I think a
smooth transition will be possible. The code has been running on the
new server for couple of days now and seems fast, but then it has no
load. If someone out there has a good way to stress test it, let me
know.
We've had a great round of QA--lots of testing this last week, and
while I've kept the code semi-frozen I did fix some things that would
have been problems for the live installation, and I've got a good
list of feature requests to work on (though I suspect the first week
or two after installation will be devoted to performance tuning the
server settings with timing data we get from live operation).
Special thanks to Magnus, who did a lot of testing and found some
good stuff.
I still don't have all the images--I'd really like to get all of
those over and installed and tested before I do anything else, but
assuming that goes well, below is my initial idea for a transition
plan. Give me some feedback on it:
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1. Where is test site for new Wikipedia now ? Old address doesn't seem
to work anymore.
2. Will links from non-English Wikipedias to images on their old
locations still work ?
3. Will non-English Wikipedias be affected by the move.
(I cc to intlwiki because of these issues)