[Fwd: Wiki migration - lost content]

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Sun Jun 8 16:18:12 UTC 2008


It was explained in multiple emails that people shouldn't even bother
reporting this stuff, just fix it.

	-Mike

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:

> For your consideration.
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com>
> > To: webmaster at fedoraproject.org
> > Subject: Wiki migration - lost content
> > Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:19:24 +0200
> >
> > I don't know who to contact about wiki migration issues.
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraProject:Wiki_migration_to-do
> > doesn't mention any contact.
> >
> >
> > Congratulations with the wiki migration. It was 99.9% perfect. Well
> > done, no doubt about that!
> >
> > But:
> >
> > Comparing https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq and
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wikiold/YumUpgradeFaq I can see that old "Tips"
> > boxes with several lines has been migrated to literally
> > "YumUpgradeFaq/code" and a couple of fragments on the talk/discussion page.
> >
> > It is OK that formatting wasn't migrated 100%, but it is not acceptable
> > that content is lost. For this specific page I can fix it manually, but
> > it would be very sad if content was lost randomly all over the wiki. I
> > suggest that the scope of the problem is analyzed and an appropriate
> > solution is found. A solution compromise could be to programmatically
> > add a cleanup-request and a note with the lost content to the affected
> > pages.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mads
>
> --
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>
>
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