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-------- Messaggio Originale -------- Oggetto: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [WikiEN-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered Data: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:53:14 -0500 Da: Joseph Reagle I have the first 10K edits up reconstructed in their various pages at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/~reagle/wp-redux/ -------- Messaggio Originale -------- Oggetto: Re: [Wiki-research-l] [WikiEN-l] Old Wikipedia backups discovered Data: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:03:00 +1100 Da: Tim Starling On 16/12/10 23:10, Joseph Reagle wrote: > On Wednesday, December 15, 2010, Tim Starling wrote: >> There were some changes made to the page text that weren't represented >> in diff_log, specifically changing certain camel-case links to free >> links. > It appears my problems were related to some CR/LF issues not round-tripping between diff and patch, but I hope to be able to address that. And yes, in addition to some of the CamelCase issues, I expect another problem is that if a page is blanked "Describe the new page here." will reappear outside of the diff_log. I don't think that will be a problem. But there are other problems that I've encountered. UseMod had a deletion feature. It turns out to be easy enough to skip deleted pages, since they don't have a corresponding entry in rclog. It also had an admin-only rename feature, which optionally fixed links in all pages. This accounts for the free link changes I was seeing earlier. And it had a link replacement feature which could be invoked without a page move. These features were rarely used, due to the arcane interface, usually people just moved pages by copying and pasting. But during the free-link conversion, a lot of pages were renamed using the admin-only feature. All these admin-only features were unlogged, but it turns out to be possible to reconstruct page moves, because when a page was moved, its name was updated in rclog but not in diff_log. By finding the first diff_log entry with the new name, you can roughly work out when the page moves were done. Anyway, I'm developing a script which will import the dump into a modified MediaWiki instance, the idea being that I can then export XML from it. Once it works, I'll upload the XML to somewhere. I'm not sure when that will be. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l