On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 07:38 +0200, MaPhi Werner wrote:
Overnight? There is no "overnight" on a
system that's accessed
world-wide, 24x7.
In my opinion, if the wiki syntax is changed dramatically, then the db
table should receive a new column called "syntax version". This would
allow the parser to distinguish between old and new syntax, rendering
both correctly.
That's another way to do the conversion: leave both parsers in for the
time it takes to do the update. By "overnight" I mean "10-20 hours, or
however long it takes". I don't think making the English Wikipedia
read-only for that long is unacceptable at all (and all the others are
small enough that it's not an issue).
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