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Bug 5701 - Failed Special:Import leaves imported pages behind, but does not say so.
Failed Special:Import leaves imported pages behind, but does not say so.
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Export/Import (Other open bugs)
1.21.x
All All
: Low minor with 2 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2006-04-24 14:39 UTC by Purodha Blissenbach
Modified: 2014-09-23 23:41 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Purodha Blissenbach 2006-04-24 14:39:14 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.
Comment 1 Siebrand Mazeland 2008-08-18 18:55:27 UTC
Mass compoment change: <some> -> Export/Import
Comment 2 Mike.lifeguard 2009-01-04 02:34:01 UTC
(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.
Comment 3 Sumana Harihareswara 2013-02-21 22:43:06 UTC
Is this still happening?
Comment 4 Nemo 2013-02-22 05:56:39 UTC
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.

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