> I would suggest > to rename on WMF cluster the ptwikimedia DB to something like > ptwikimedia_old
If you want this, I hope the users will have the patience to wait for when the renaming wikis bug will be solved in 2034. Or, you know, we can create *now* a new wiki with a new name that most users will not notice (it will not affect the domain name, pt.wikimedia.org). On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 24/02/2016 14:56, Waldir Pimenta a écrit : >> Assuming there's no easy way to merge the databases, we are fine with >> dropping the old db. I believe most content was imported to the current >> wiki at the time of the migration, see >> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25537. An xml dump was used, not an SQL >> one, so I suppose stuff like logs may not have been preserved, but in any >> case it's not critical that we preserve all that historical info. I mean, >> it would certainly be nice, but we can live without it. >> >> Or we could use the pt2wikimedia, as that would allow future archeologists >> to recover the data from the beginning of the wiki :) Either option is fine. > > Hello, > > The ptwikimedia database being from 2012, I don't think there is much > point in attempting to upgrade its schema, much less attempting to merge > in the external db in. > > Given most of the useful data/history has been exported, I would suggest > to rename on WMF cluster the ptwikimedia DB to something like > ptwikimedia_old or even just archive a dump of it and drop it. > > Then create a new ptwikimedia and import the external db there. > > > I am an idealist, but I am afraid introducing a scheme like > <lang>2<project type> is asking for various exceptions to be added in > various code and will cause a nasty technical debt down the road. > > My 0.02 € > > -- > Antoine "hashar" Musso > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Jaime Crespo <http://wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
