Diederik van Liere wrote:
I've suggested to generate bulk checksums as well but both Brion and Ariel see the primary purpose of this field to check the validity of the dump generating process and so they want to generate the checksums straight from the external storage.
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PS: not sure if this proposal should be on strategy or mediawiki...
I think standard practice nowadays is a subpage of http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment.
MZMcBride