Jerome Jamnicky wrote:

On Mon, 31 May 2004 22:20, Christian List wrote:

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On the danish Wikipedia we have already localized everything into danish on the new MediaWiki 1.3, but a couple of hours ago all the newly introduced translations disappeared. Please, whoever deleted them, put them back ASAP.

Regards Christian List

I don't know exactly what went on, but it appears that a buggy script damaged entries in the Mediawiki: namespace, and they had to be restored from an earlier backup. So you'll have to re-do the translations you've recently done. Tim Starling knows what happened, and he should reply to your mail later, when he wakes up

-Jerome

Yes, I ran a script that was meant to update the MediaWiki namespace by overwriting any message which had only been changed by the "MediaWiki default" user, without recording the edit in the old table. At least, that's how it worked in testing. In fact it overwrote all internal messages. This affected all wikis aa-dz plus fr, 28 in all. To fix this, I restored all namespace 8 pages from the most recent backup, which was made about 24 hours ago. This restoration would have appeared as an edit -- the damaged text was copied back into the old table.

Before I run it again, I will modify the script to perform proper edits instead of simply changing cur_text, and I will fix whatever bug caused it to edit human-edited pages, when it was only meant to update unmodified pages.

-- Tim Starling