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Re: [WWdevel] maa webwork site? -- archived forum posts have bad dates.
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From: Michael G. <ga...@ma...> - 2007-06-14 14:06:19
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There were two moves. I'll post a note -- only posts between sometime in December 2006 and June 2007 are affected by the second move. Take care, Mike On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:24 AM, P. Gavin LaRose wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Are there two moves? That is, I know the entire thing moved > several months ago from Rochester to the MAA. Did they move it > again, thus causing the loss of the data information? I think I'm > just confused here, but if I'm right about this (finally) it might > be worth putting a note on the forum front page to say that the > dates on forum posts are all messed up, and why. Otherwise my > inclination is to look at the forum and think that it's at best out > of date and at worst nonfunctional. > > Thanks, > Gavin > > -- > P Gavin LaRose, PhD | gl...@um... | 734.764.6454 | ...you > have > Program Manager, Instructional Technology | to respect someone > who can > Mathematics Dept, University of Michigan | spell Tuesday, even if > they > http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~glarose/ | can't spell it right. - > Milne > > On 2007-06-14 [09:19] Michael Gage wrote: > >> I agree. There is some hope that we can recover this eventually >> since I believe it is a one time >> data loss caused by the move. The posts in the archive forum >> still have the date preserved on the internal >> data. The newer posts from the last 6 months don't have any dates. >> >> As I said I'm still saving all of the original forums -- it may be >> that we'll need direct access to the mysql database >> on the maa machine in order to transfer the posts over with data. >> Except for the archived posts there are only a few hundred entries >> so it could be done somewhat manually. >> >> Anyone have any suggestions? >> >> Take care, >> >> Mike >> >> On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:07 AM, P. Gavin LaRose wrote: >> >>> Hi Mike, >>> I was mainly interested that the site seems to have lost all date >>> information from posts since the site moved to the MAA. If they >>> did a >>> restore from a backup that wiped out all of the old information >>> that's >>> understandable, but it's also really annoying---if I can't tell >>> if a forum >>> post was from 2000 or 2007 it makes it hard to tell if it's >>> useful or not. >>> Gavin >>> -- >>> P Gavin LaRose, PhD | gl...@um... | 734.764.6454 >>> | ...you have >>> Program Manager, Instructional Technology | to respect someone >>> who can >>> Mathematics Dept, University of Michigan | spell Tuesday, even >>> if they >>> http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~glarose/ | can't spell it right. >>> -Milne >>> On 2007-06-14 [09:03] Michael Gage wrote: >>>> Hi Gavin, >>>> I'm not sure that it can be for the old messages. It appears >>>> that there is >>>> data loss when transferring the forums around. >>>> I still have the original forums saved (including the ones from >>>> webhost) -- >>>> however we'll need to figure out a way to transfer the >>>> information in such a >>>> way that it preserves dates. Backup and restore in moodle -- >>>> the usual way >>>> to transfer module data from one course to another does not >>>> preserve dates -- >>>> this must be a bug but I don't see it mentioned in the moodle >>>> forums. >>>> The dates on the archived messages will not be accurate in any >>>> case since >>>> they were re-entered by Arnie. I still have the original data >>>> on webhost if >>>> someone can come up with a better transfer method. >>>> Take care, >>>> Mike >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ----- >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express >>> Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take >>> control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. >>> http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenWeBWorK-Devel mailing list >>> Ope...@li... >>> https://lists.sf.net/lists/listinfo/openwebwork-devel >> >> >> > |
