Lars Aronsson wrote:
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
Proposed solution: Let's create a standardized file format (probably something XML-ish) for storing the information contained in a wiki. All the text, revisions, meta-data, and so on would be stored in a well-defined format, so that, for example, upgrading the wiki software (from any version to any other--no need to do one at a time!) could be done by exporting the wiki into this format and then importing it into the new installation. The export format would be publishable
It sounds so easy. But would you accept this procedure if it requires that Wikipedia is unavailable or read-only for one hour? for one day? for one week? The conversion time should be a design requirement.
Of course we've had unplanned downtime that has lasted for more than an hour. Then too en:wikipedia has so far resisted converting to Unicode. :-)
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