There are quite some bug reports in http://de-beta.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Beobachtete_Fe hler now. Most should be easy to fix, some might already be known from the english WP, but what I think is most important are the bugs in the conversion script. So I translated these:
* The conversion of article titles didn't work. So many articles are now in http://de-beta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial%3ALonelypages (e.g. [[Brian De Palma]] should have been converted to [[Brian de Palma]]).
* /Talk-pages should have been converted into the Diskussion:-namespace (like the /Diskussion-pages). It didn't work, but a "See also: " (should be: "Siehe auch:") has been inserted.
* I thought all old revisions since beginning of the German WP should have been integrated into the database. Or is it better to do this later?
* Not very important: The Link to the Diskussion-namespace should be [[Diskussion:... instead of [[diskussion:... - easy to fix :-)
The first three have already been mentioned on the old test site on http://test-de.wikipedia.com/wiki/wikipedia%3ABug+report Did anybody ever take a look at it? There has also been some discussion about how to name the German user-namespace, and we ended up with "Wikipedianer:". "namespaces" should not be translated to "Namensräume", but to "Verwandte Seiten".
Kurt
Kurt Jansson wrote:
- The conversion of article titles didn't work. So many articles are now
in http://de-beta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial%3ALonelypages (e.g. [[Brian De Palma]] should have been converted to [[Brian de Palma]]).
Whoever did the conversion (Lee? Magnus?), what exactly did you run? For Usemode-to-phase II conversion there is a *separate* script (recaseLinks.php) that does the renaming/case correction, which is to be run after importing the data into MySQL.
- /Talk-pages should have been converted into the Diskussion:-namespace
(like the /Diskussion-pages). It didn't work, but a "See also: " (should be: "Siehe auch:") has been inserted.
- I thought all old revisions since beginning of the German WP should
have been integrated into the database. Or is it better to do this later?
The usemod wikis are configured to destroy old items in the edit histories after a few weeks. For some reason, no one's ever paid any attention whenever I've pointed this out on the mailing lists.
Unless someone has regular backups going back to the beginning and wants to figure out how to paste them together, they're gone.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
- I thought all old revisions since beginning of the German WP
should
have been integrated into the database. Or is it better to do this later?
The usemod wikis are configured to destroy old items in the edit histories after a few weeks. For some reason, no one's ever paid any attention whenever I've pointed this out on the mailing lists.
Unless someone has regular backups going back to the beginning and
wants
to figure out how to paste them together, they're gone.
Aaaaaaargh!!!
That's really sad. I remember that there was a discussion about this long ago. :-(
Kurt
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