Assuming there's no easy way to merge the databases, we are fine with
dropping the old db. I believe most content was imported to the current
wiki at the time of the migration, see
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25537. An xml dump was used, not an SQL
one, so I suppose stuff like logs may not have been preserved, but in any
case it's not critical that we preserve all that historical info. I mean,
it would certainly be nice, but we can live without it.
Or we could use the pt2wikimedia, as that would allow future archeologists
to recover the data from the beginning of the wiki :) Either option is fine.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:13 PM, This, that and the other <
at.light(a)live.com.au> wrote:
Why not just delete the old ptwikimedia site and put
the new one in its
place, using the same dbname?
The old wiki is inaccessible, since
pt.wikimedia.org redirects offsite,
so it's unclear if the old DB even needs to be preserved. And presumably
any configuration bits that refer to ptwikimedia will still be relevant to
the new site.
If for some reason that is not feasible, I guess pt2wikimedia is
acceptable, though only as a last resort. As I've said before, there really
needs to be a better way to rename wikis without wasting hours of
everyone's time...
TTO
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Hi all,
A request has come up (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126832) to
re-create
pt.wikimedia.org on the wikimedia cluster. Unfortunately it was
previously hosted there and so the 'ptwikimedia' database name is already
taken.
Since database renaming does not really appear to be an option, does anyone
have any objections to using 'pt2wikimedia' (or similar, suggestions
welcome) instead for the new wiki? I know this doesn't fit the existing
pattern so I'm unsure about just going ahead without asking for input from
a wider audience.
Alex
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