On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:11:43 +0100
Adam Spiers
But surely the remaining articles *need* to be in the new wiki, so that they can be maintained properly?
Right, but we miss since ever maintainers, that will go and fix problems. Currently it is C. Boltz for technical issues, and me for all other stuff. Both not available that much. There are also guys that translate wiki to other languages and fix problems on the go. You stumbled on one that was forgotten in a rush to transfer as many as possible before release. Later we didn't do that much to check what is left in the old wiki. (See above for manpower :-) There could be some other, but old wiki is not small and it will take time to go trough and find what is not transferred, find someone that understands topic to make estimate what to do, and finally transfer. Not impossible, but a lot of work for available man-hours. I can try to check articles, but I'm not good at making things simple and usable, at least not in a short time. (That was main reason we had transition the way we had. I was always late with proposals, or they were too complicated.) I have not much time recently, but I'll think about review of old wiki and how to do it.
And article history can be preserved during a transfer? I thought that was the point of Special:Import/Export?
It is. Problem was with some pages that have huge history that created problem during the transfer. I guess it was problem with available memory on the server. I can't recollect exact error, but while it was solvable configuration issue, it would take time to get someone at Novell to do that. So we resorted to copy and paste method. It is much later that we got Matthew as server admin that was, and still is very responsive, although he is on a different job now. Combine that with all other problems we had during transition, like time pressure, relatively complicated, not completely thought through and consequently not well documented transfer procedure (as you noticed), and we are good that new wiki came out pretty usable in its initial release. -- Regards, Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+owner@opensuse.org