If this is possible and useful.
Note: In my understanding, this does not mean "Redirect URLs" but is about functionality in the blog software itself.
Also note that we must check that the license is the same as the default license of the tech blog. If it is not, explicitly state the license of imported tasks.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | • srodlund | T242619 Set up Tech blog to share stories from the Wikimedia Technical community | |||
| Declined | None | T243407 Import blog posts from old https://blog.wikimedia.org/category/technology/ into archive of the new Tech blog |
There are also a number of people who have published on Phab or in their own blogs in lieu of a central place to publish posts. We should determine whether offer to link to, import (if we can), or republish recent posts, which have been published elsewhere.
There are also posts at https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/category/technology/ that came after blog.wikimedia.org stopped posting new blogs.
@Varnent can you help us out with this by either giving me access to the admin console for blog.wikimedia.org so I can make a content dump for the technology category there, or by making the dump yourself and getting it to me so I can do some testing and then upload it into the new blog?
I chatted with @varnet on irc yesterday (2020-03-24). He should be able to help with this in the next week or so.
I am working on getting access to this site's main database dump. Basically, it is the only one of our VIP sites I did not yet have full access to as it has been inactive. I imagine a direct database dump is the easiest solution - but I can also look into getting you access if you prefer.
Full disclosure, because this site has been dormant, it is not as operational as most of our VIP sites and using an older version of VIP's configuration. However, we are beginning to start it back up and get it aligned with our other VIP sites as we are repurposing the instance for the new community blog that is replacing the Space blog. So put another way, worst case scenario whatever barrier happens to be in place today should be removed in the coming weeks.
If I interpret T254367: Switch blog.wikimedia.org to diff.wikimedia.org correctly then blog.wikimedia.org might redirect to diff.wikimedia.org soon. No idea if all and any content will survive though.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/02/power-outage-in-wikimedias-european-servers/ redirects to https://diff.wikimedia.org/2009/07/02/power-outage-in-wikimedias-european-servers/ and has content! The missing bit is that originally the URL for this post was https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/02/power-outage-in-wikimedias-european-servers/ which is still a 404.
(https://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology redirects to the blog post https://diff.wikimedia.org/2018/01/09/technology-department-highlights/ and the category is at https://blog.wikimedia.org/category/technology)