Brion- Then why not use the semi-working conversion script and let the users do the rest of the work by hand? Does the script break anything? Regards, Erik

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Brion Vibber wrote: I'm soliciting opinions on the wiki-it mailing list about the conversion, and the associated manual work. In case it is decided to go ahead, would it be possible to do it in the following days/weeks? Ciao, Alfio

Alfio Puglisi wrote: I'm not a developer, but helping with the manual fixup seems like a good way to improve my extremely limited knowledge of Italian. Is that plausible, and if so, what exactly is the kind of fixup work required? Stan

On 8 Dec 2003, Erik Moeller wrote: Having done the handwork for fy:, I can say that it's quite a bit of work. However, the work can be _greatly_ diminished by running the recently implemented update script for the links-table after the move, since the most work is in making an edit to every page to do so. Apart from that, one will have to move every page of which the title is wrongly capitalized (the script will capitalize every word), and move every page that should go to another namespace. On fy: the conversion cost me about 4 1/2 hours for 120 pages. In the same speed, a really large phase I Wikipedia (ca: or it:) would cost about 180 man-hours. However, as said the hardest work (updating the link tables) can probably now be automated, which makes the process much faster. Andre Engels