Last modified: 2014-09-23 23:41:32 UTC
This is a followup on http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5689 An error during a Special:Import of several pages/revisions leaves any good revisions in the data base that had been read before the error war detected. This is imho allright, yet the Error Message: "Import failed: ...(probably for some reason)..." appears to be misleading or too terse. Suggestion 1: Add a message: "# pages / # revisions successfully imported." before the error message. Suggestion 2: For each page/revision, once it has been successfully imported, display a line resembing the corresponding entry of the page history. So effectively a content list of the xml records is produced. Suggestion 3: Both.
Mass compoment change: <some> -> Export/Import
(In reply to comment #0) > This is a followup on http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5689 > > An error during a Special:Import of several pages/revisions leaves any good revisions in the data base that had > been read before the error war detected. > > This is imho allright, yet the Error Message: "Import failed: ...(probably for some reason)..." > appears to be misleading or too terse. > > Suggestion 1: Add a message: "# pages / # revisions successfully imported." > before the error message. > > Suggestion 2: For each page/revision, once it has been successfully imported, display a line resembing the > corresponding entry of the page history. So effectively a content list of the xml records is produced. > > Suggestion 3: Both. A line for each revision will get very long very fast - consider importing via XML upload, where you might have many many pages: thousands upon thousands of revs total(!) Probably #1 is acceptable.
Is this still happening?
Yes. Sumana, you can safely assume than any bug in this component is still valid, whether 1 or 10 years old, unless an indication of the contrary is provided.
