[WikiEN-l] Re: Switch to MediaWiki 1.5

Mon Jun 27 16:00:32 UTC 2005

THANKS. MAY NOW BE NOT MUCH CONCERNED.

YOURS,
DANIEL RAY
DANIELRAY at REDIFFMAIL.COM
27/06/05 MONDAY

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 Brion Vibber wrote :
>>"MacGyverMagic/Mgm" wrote:
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>>>Has anyone got a clue for how long the database will be locked for this update?
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>Some hours, don't know how long exactly. Probably less than a full day, but no guarantee. :)
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>All our other wikis remain open for editing in the meantime, so feel free to slake your wiki-thirst in Commons, Wiktionary, Wikinews, etc or Wikipedia in another language while en.wikipedia.org is locked.
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>Phil Boswell wrote:
>>Is this causing the strange doubling effect wherein the last edit is appearing twice at the top of each history page, and single-diffs are failing?
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>Yes. The old database schema stored the current revision and older revisions in separate databases. The new schema rearranges things so revision data is stored in one place more consistently.
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>The conversion works by first copying the current data in to where we had the old revisions, then breaking that off into the new text-storage, revision-metadata, and page tables.
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>So in the meantime if you look at history, you will see two copies of the current revision -- one in each table.
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>>...and is it possible to make the notice announcing the upgrade a little larger?
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>>I sailed into a correct without noticing the Site-Notice and was somewhat startled to face the "locked-out" version of the edit page.
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>I'll poke at it a bit...
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>-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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