Who are you people?? I don't know the first thing about all this developer talk!
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024, 3:57 AM Amir Sarabadani <asarabad...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello, > The data migration for several sections have been completed. We will start > dropping the old columns on s4 > <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/dblists/s4.dblist> and s5 > <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/dblists/s5.dblist> this and next week and > right after will start dropping the old columns on s3 > <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/dblists/s3.dblist>. > > The data has not been fully migrated in s1 (enwiki) and s8 (wikidata) but > migrated in some wikis of the rest of the sections. > > If your tools rely on pagelinks, you might need to update your tools now. > > Best > > Am Mi., 18. Okt. 2023 um 13:46 Uhr schrieb Amir Sarabadani < > asarabad...@wikimedia.org>: > >> (If you don’t work with pagelinks table, feel free to ignore this message) >> >> Hello, >> >> Here is an update and reminder on the previous announcement >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org/message/U2U6TXIBABU3KDCVUOITIGI5OJ4COBSW/> >> regarding normalization of links tables that was sent around a year ago. >> >> As part of that work, soon the pl_namespace and pl_title columns of >> pagelinks table will be dropped and you will need to use pl_target_id >> joining with the linktarget table instead. This is basically identical to >> the templatelinks normalization that happened a year ago. >> >> Currently, MediaWiki writes to both data schemes of pagelinks for new >> rows in all wikis except English Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons (we will >> start writing to these two wikis next week). We have started to backfill >> the data with the new schema but it will take weeks to finish in large >> wikis. >> >> So if you query this table directly or your tools do, You will need to >> update them accordingly. I will write a reminder before dropping the old >> columns once the data has been fully backfilled. >> >> You can keep track of the general long-term work in T300222 >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300222> and the specific work for >> pagelinks in T299947 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299947>. You >> can also read more on the reasoning in T222224 >> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222224> or the previous announcement >> <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org/message/U2U6TXIBABU3KDCVUOITIGI5OJ4COBSW/> >> . >> >> Thank you, >> -- >> *Amir Sarabadani (he/him)* >> Staff Database Architect >> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> >> > _______________________________________________ > Cloud mailing list -- cloud@lists.wikimedia.org > List information: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/ >
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