On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Purodha Blissenbach purodha@blissenbach.org wrote:
There has been a project in the past that converted a MediaWiki code base from SQL to use svn or git as message store. I do not remember which. It worked afaicr but was discontinued as not being used irl, and pretty slow, too.
If you could dig up more details on that project I'd be very interested! Those who don't learn from history, etc. I'd love to read through the code and see what was done. It would be relevant to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004 --scott
I can't remember the name, but i played around previously with a software project that read in mediawiki XML dumps and converted them to a format usable by git-fast-import. A quick google turned up levitation[1] which seems to be a similar concept, but not the same one i used before
[1] https://github.com/scy/levitation
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 8:58 AM, C. Scott Ananian cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Purodha Blissenbach purodha@blissenbach.org wrote:
There has been a project in the past that converted a MediaWiki code base from SQL to use svn or git as message store. I do not remember which. It worked afaicr but was discontinued as not being used irl, and pretty
slow,
too.
If you could dig up more details on that project I'd be very interested! Those who don't learn from history, etc. I'd love to read through the code and see what was done. It would be relevant to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004 --scott
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"C. Scott Ananian" cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
There has been a project in the past that converted a MediaWiki code base from SQL to use svn or git as message store. I do not remember which. It worked afaicr but was discontinued as not being used irl, and pretty slow, too.
If you could dig up more details on that project I'd be very interested! Those who don't learn from history, etc. I'd love to read through the code and see what was done. It would be relevant to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004
I assume Purodha might have referred to Levitation (http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation; current state and links to spawns at https://workflowy.com/s/jJtGnQ8p3W).
Tim
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Tim Landscheidt tim@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
"C. Scott Ananian" cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
There has been a project in the past that converted a MediaWiki code
base
from SQL to use svn or git as message store. I do not remember which. It worked afaicr but was discontinued as not being used irl, and pretty
slow,
too.
If you could dig up more details on that project I'd be very interested! Those who don't learn from history, etc. I'd love to read through the code and see what was done. It would be relevant to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004
I assume Purodha might have referred to Levitation (http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation; current state and links to spawns at https://workflowy.com/s/jJtGnQ8p3W).
Also, lots of git-related discussion in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:HaeB/Timeline_of_distributed_Wikipedia_pr...
On 09/25/2015 08:58 AM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
If you could dig up more details on that project I'd be very interested! Those who don't learn from history, etc. I'd love to read through the code and see what was done. It would be relevant to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004
Probably not the same project, but someone linked to https://github.com/webplatform/mediawiki-conversion on IRC a few weeks ago.
-- Legoktm
On 9/25/15, C. Scott Ananian cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Purodha Blissenbach purodha@blissenbach.org wrote:
There has been a project in the past that converted a MediaWiki code base from SQL to use svn or git as message store. I do not remember which. It worked afaicr but was discontinued as not being used irl, and pretty slow, too.
If you could dig up more details on that project I'd be very interested! Those who don't learn from history, etc. I'd love to read through the code and see what was done. It would be relevant to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004 --scott
There was also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebDAV which allegedly allowed you to make svn checkouts of a MW wiki.
-- -bawolff
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 5:58 PM, C. Scott Ananian cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Purodha Blissenbach purodha@blissenbach.org wrote:
There has been a project in the past that converted a MediaWiki code base from SQL to use svn or git as message store. I do not remember which. It worked afaicr but was discontinued as not being used irl, and pretty
slow,
too.
If you could dig up more details on that project I'd be very interested! Those who don't learn from history, etc. I'd love to read through the code and see what was done. It would be relevant to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113004 --scott
gollum for github: https://github.com/gollum/gollum, and jingo: https://github.com/claudioc/jingo are examples of wikis using git as document store.
rupert
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