[Foundation-l] mo.wikipedia is not yet renamed to mo-cyrill as it was promised !!

[Cetateanu Moldovanu]

Hello Mister Vibber,

I'm glad to see you already made a plan, I supose you know the best
mediawiki and wikipedia architecture, aren't there anybody else to execute
those points from that plan ?

Even if those points sounds havy, since the number of articles&files from mo
is not so high, I'm sure you can do all those points in a day or two of
work.

>for each of 22 clusters
I'm sure you have a script to execute a command on all clusters at once and
see the results.

Or in the meantime you build a "infrastructure for conveniently renaming
sites", you can put in place a temporary solution that is easier to build.
You could just make a new vhost(mo-cyrill) that point to the same dir as mo.
And for mo you could make a htaccess (or equivalent) that would redirect all
the request to the mo-cyrill (with a script that get REQUEST_URI and output
a redirect header).

Hope to hear you soon.

Best regards,

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:03 AM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi Cetateanu --
>
> As replied previously, we don't yet have infrastructure for conveniently
> renaming sites. Given that the site has been locked for years and there's
> nothing to replace it with at mo.wikipedia.org, it's no higher on our
> priority list than the other sites that have language code renames pending.
>
> Since we've been in the midst of a slow migration of external text storage
> as well, it's slid farther back on the burner than planned. I'll see if we
> can make sure it's on the radar at least...
>
>
> The problem isn't intractable, but merely inconvenient, and due to the
> number of sites & databases needing renaming it needs to be scripted and
> tested for safety first:
>
> * Ensure language/localization files have been updated for new language
> code
>
> * Lock site
>
> * Rename public file storage subdirectories
>
> * Rename private file storage subdirectories
>
> * Ensure all site config entries have been updated for new language code
>
> * Rename core database on primary database cluster (create new database,
> rename all tables, drop old empty database)
>
> * Ensure that all slave databases were properly updated
>
> * Rename blob databases on all external storage clusters (for each of 22
> clusters, create new database, rename all tables, drop old empty databases)
>
> * Ensure that all slave databases were properly updated
>
> * Make sure it didn't break anything _else_...
>
> * Unlock site
>
> * Rename or move data dump archives
>
> * Check if anything else needs cleaning up in recent changes channels,
> interwiki links, or other output.
>
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
>
>
> Cetateanu Moldovanu wrote:
>
>> *Hi, I want to remind you that on 26 Nov 2008 **
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-November/047554.html**you have promised that subdomain name mo will become mo-cyrl, it's July now
>> and mo is still not yet renamed.*
>>
>> * *
>> *
>> If you cannot rename please delete it altogether.
>>  Hope to get a ETA, or to know at which point is the progress.
>>  Brion Vibber and his superiors, please make a room for this task to be
>> done, also I (as a programmer) can volunteer to help you do this thing if
>> you have a lack of resources !
>>  IT'S IMPORTANT !
>> *
>>
>
>