The OAI updater is for incremental updates of search indexes using MWSearch.
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > > > Mostly I meant the user data (especially the passwords). The relative > > value > > > of them compared to the rest can be shown by anyone who tries to create > a > > > fork. > > > > In the dumps, these are always done first: > > <http://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20090506/> > > > Pretty much in order of importance (except that I don't know what "Update > dataset for OAI updater system" means). > > I suppose the stub dump is also important as it's not widely replicated and > contains the author information, but in a month or so the GFDL is going to > be dropped anyway so that wouldn't be such a huge loss I guess. > > In any case, the Library of Alexandria analogy kind of forgets about the > "no > original research" policy. Even if the current versions of all articles > were lost, it wouldn't be all that horrible. It might even be a good > thing. Consider Citizendium's decision not to go the route of the fork but > instead to start from scratch. > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
