Hello,
I have investigated the history of the Low Saxon (nds) Wikipedia a bit. It was updated to Phase III software in January 2004. Apparently lots of edits got lost in this process (even the main page vanished). Looking at the statistics under http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaNDS.htm you can see, that there were only few edits in the six months before conversion. But after conversion the edit numbers went up abruptly. Is this only a effect of lost edits in this time?
Additionaly let me ask: What were the reasons that the conversion script caused so much lost edits? Phase III was already in use by other wikis for six months, so why was the conversion script still buggy in January 2004 when used for Low Saxon Wikipedia?
Aren't there any dumps or archived versions made before conversion?
Would be nice if you could enlighten me a bit or point me to a page, where I can find info about this.
Thanks and Schöne Gröten Slomox Marcus Buck