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nicdumz at gmail

Aug 21, 2008, 9:47 AM

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Category-redirect GSoC : the end.

Hi wikitech :)

GSoC was officially ending on the 18th of august, so here is the
status of category-redirects :

* I spent a large hour today to merge the trunk to my branch ( -_-' ),
it is now available for review and testing in
branch/category-redirects. [1]

* I tried to write some global technical document on what I actually
did during this summer, and what behavior you should expect [2].
Please let me know if any clarifications are needed.

* The only missing thing is a script to convert the old schema to the
current schema, such as maintenance/convertLinks.inc . I do not feel
qualified enough to write such a script, and would be grateful to
receive some help on this issue ;)

[1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=39773
[2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:NicDumZ/GSoC

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roan.kattouw at home

Aug 21, 2008, 12:08 PM

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Nicolas Dumazet schreef:

> Hi wikitech :)
>
> GSoC was officially ending on the 18th of august, so here is the
> status of category-redirects :
>
> * I spent a large hour today to merge the trunk to my branch ( -_-' ),
> it is now available for review and testing in
> branch/category-redirects. [1]
>
I'll test and review this when I have time. I was officially Nicholas's
mentor for this project, after all.
> * I tried to write some global technical document on what I actually
> did during this summer, and what behavior you should expect [2].
> Please let me know if any clarifications are needed.
>
I edited that page to remove a comment saying that "a side effect of
that schema change is that when a non-existing category is linked from
an article, we now need to create a corresponding row in the category
table, regardless of the existence of the said category *page*", as that
already happens AFAIK. (Note that I understand "linked" to mean
"included" here; when creating a redlink to a memberless category
there's really no need to add it to the category table.)

The #REDIRECT [[Category:Foo]] vs. #REDIRECT [[:Category:Foo]] isn't
that big IMO.
> * The only missing thing is a script to convert the old schema to the
> current schema, such as maintenance/convertLinks.inc . I do not feel
> qualified enough to write such a script, and would be grateful to
> receive some help on this issue ;)
Adding a patch to maintenance/update.php is quite trivial, and I'd be
happy to write a maintenance script that populates the new columns when
I have time.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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