[Wikipedia-l] Test the new software! test.wikipedia.com is up!

João Mário Miranda jmiranda at explicacoes.com
Fri Jan 18 01:29:18 UTC 2002


Is it a good idea to change to the new software after a
press release? Imagine something goes wrong and some 
newspaper features wikipedia in the same day thing go wrong...

Joao
http://www.nonio.com

Larry Sanger wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
> 
> > >http://test.wikipedia.com/
> > >Please visit the website, and report bugs and request any *really*
> > >essential features.
> >
> > Well, my extensive use of subpages in Poker get translated pretty
> > badly, so I'll have to do a lot of manual fixing there.  But I'm
> > probably the worst case on that score, and I don't think the problem
> > is that bad, and I'd much rather do it now than after 20,000 more
> > pages are added.
> 
> I think what would help a lot is if there were added, to the conversion
> script, something that made [[Poker/Bluff]] (for instance) into
> [[Poker/Bluff|Bluff]].  It appears that what the script does right now is
> to convert instances of [[/Bar]] on a [[Foo]] subpage into [[Foo/Bar]].
> I'd say it would be better in 95% of the cases to convert it instead into
> [[Foo/Bar|Bar]].
> 
> > Likewise, I'd like to tweak the code for dictionary lists a bit
> > before I add 20 more pages of poker jargon, but that too can be
> > done post-live, and I can do the code myself as soon as it's in
> > some reasonable source control system like Sourceforge CVS.
> >
> > So I'm certainly in favor of going live.
> 
> Woo-hoo!
> 
> Larry
> 
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