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. :-)
Ec