Brion Vibber wrote:
Jimbo, is there any chance we can move the Esperanto
wikipedia over to
the PHP script soon? I've been promising people we'd be upgrading to the
new software (which will fix a number of annoying bugs in the old) for a
while, and the natives are getting restless. :)
Yes!
I'm going to check in a couple more character set
and case-conversion
fixes tonight, after which we should be ready anytime. At this point any
additional problems are only going to be discovered by having real users
bang at the real site with real non-English non-ISO-8859-1 text...
How about this -- tomorrow morning, I will install this. Will you be around
(in email) tomorrow for questions?
Best thing to do -- send me simple step by step instructions,
including instructions about the conversion script. I'll back
everything up, run the conversion, install the new software, and
it'll work perfectly the first try! (ha ha!)
If it isn't working perfectly right out of the box, then I'll back out
the change, revert to the Usemod script, and we'll do a dry run in a
"safer" way with
test.wikipedia.com or whatever.
There are a few switches at the top of
convertWiki2SQL.php for selecting
language-specific processing options, and wikiLocalSettings.php needs to
select the proper $wikiLanguage and $wikiSQLServer, but that's about it.
Other than those two, the PHP source files can be shared 100% between
various language wikipedias. (I've already included the Esperanto
message-localization file in the CVS repository, and I assume others
will be added as they are converted & translated.)
Cool! I don't know anything about the conversion script, though. Jason did it
for the main site, and he's out of town. Oh, wait, he'll be back tomorrow. But
still, if you have information, let me know. :-)
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