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Bug 22695 - Put Simple English Wikibooks in locked state rather than inaccessible
Put Simple English Wikibooks in locked state rather than inaccessible
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wikimedia
Classification: Unclassified
Site requests (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To: Rob Halsell
http://simple.wikibooks.org
: shell
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Blocks: 22674
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Reported: 2010-03-02 14:02 UTC by aaron.adrignola
Modified: 2010-03-23 19:37 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description aaron.adrignola 2010-03-02 14:02:37 UTC
Many recent wikis that were proposed for closure were made entirely inaccessible, while in the past the wikis were simply locked.  Simple English Wikibooks was recently closed and made inaccessible.  However, this blocks the process that was underway at English Wikibooks regarding a merge or adoption of useful content (see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Simple_English_merger).  

An XML export of the content was made available (http://toolserver.org/~catrope/closedwikis/), however that is not of use to administrators at English Wikibooks, who do not have the importupload right and who would need to selectively import pages such that existing pages are not overwritten and to select only the content that is appropriate to bring in.  That can only be accomplished through the traditional transwiki import via Special:Import and can only be done if the wiki is accessible.

As discussed on Meta (http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&oldid=1875222#Simple_English_Wikibooks_Deletion) the recently closed Simple English Wikiquote remains available but locked (http://simple.wikiquote.org). This wasn't done for Simple English Wikibooks.

While other closed projects could return to the Incubator via import of their XML file, Simple English wikis would not be permitted to return to the Incubator due to the fact that they are not their own language.  Effectively this project is deleted rather than closed.  I request Simple English Wikibooks to be made available, but locked, allowing transwiki import of content while still maintaining the community consensus for closure.
Comment 1 Casey Brown 2010-03-02 20:42:50 UTC
Note to the sysadmin who does this:  you should just be able to re-add the db's to all.dblist.
Comment 2 Filemon 2010-03-03 07:36:23 UTC
Note that also several other wikis (eg. ng.wikipedia.org) were treated the same way (deleting instead of closing) recently. I think that this should be fixed too.
Comment 3 JeLuF 2010-03-21 10:24:37 UTC
Done for simple.wikibooks. I don't know whether the other wikis have been deleted on purpose or not.
Comment 4 Filemon 2010-03-23 08:21:47 UTC
The wiki can be edited now, but it was requested to be in locked state. See also bug 22927.
Comment 5 Sam Reed (reedy) 2010-03-23 08:24:12 UTC
Reopening as it is indeed editable
Comment 6 Casey Brown 2010-03-23 11:10:58 UTC
Was the change synced everywhere with sync-common-all (apparently just a scap isn't enough). http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Close_a_wiki
Comment 7 JeLuF 2010-03-23 19:24:59 UTC
Yes, the change was synced (I wrote the howto...)

The problem was in the way group permissions are being set. The wiki-specific settings overruled the settings for the "closed"-servergroup.

Now it should be fixed.
Comment 8 Casey Brown 2010-03-23 19:37:32 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> Yes, the change was synced (I wrote the howto...)
> 

I know you wrote the howto, but everyone makes mistakes or gets distracted while they're doing something.

> Now it should be fixed.

Yep, it's fixed now, thanks.

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