Kurt Jansson wrote:
- The conversion of article titles didn't work. So many articles are now
in http://de-beta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial%3ALonelypages (e.g. [[Brian De Palma]] should have been converted to [[Brian de Palma]]).
Whoever did the conversion (Lee? Magnus?), what exactly did you run? For Usemode-to-phase II conversion there is a *separate* script (recaseLinks.php) that does the renaming/case correction, which is to be run after importing the data into MySQL.
- /Talk-pages should have been converted into the Diskussion:-namespace
(like the /Diskussion-pages). It didn't work, but a "See also: " (should be: "Siehe auch:") has been inserted.
- I thought all old revisions since beginning of the German WP should
have been integrated into the database. Or is it better to do this later?
The usemod wikis are configured to destroy old items in the edit histories after a few weeks. For some reason, no one's ever paid any attention whenever I've pointed this out on the mailing lists.
Unless someone has regular backups going back to the beginning and wants to figure out how to paste them together, they're gone.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)