Export function disabled, More technical failure Options

[Emperor]

From Jimmy's talk page

Why did Wikipedia change its export function so it no longer works with any other wikis?

Earlier this year Wikipedia changed Special:Export, so that everything exported is in a different format than the one it had previously used for years. This means that other wikis, such as wikia, can no longer import pages. Was that done on purpose? Dream Focus 22:17, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
You will probably get a quicker answer at WP:VPT where the techie types hang out.--ukexpat (talk) 02:30, 1 May 2012 (UTC) I'm afraid I don't know anything about it.--Jimbo Wales (talk) 09:46, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

This is subtle, but a huge nail in the coffin of the interwiki collaboration idea.

For a decade, the writers of Wikipedia assumed that if there was ever a reason to, they could easily take their content elsewhere.

Now database dumps don't work and Special:Export doesn't work.

The WMF has completely broken the trust of the original user base.

New license, new terms of use, and two key features of the wiki are disabled.

[Michaeldsuarez]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vil..._other_wikis.3F (permalink)

It's the result of Wikia's out-of-date software. Wikia users should petition their profit-making masters for more up-to-date software.

This post has been edited by Michaeldsuarez: Tue 1st May 2012, 9:19pm

[Emperor]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vil..._other_wikis.3F (permalink)

It's the result of Wikia's out-of-date software. Wikia users should petition their profit-making masters for more up-to-date software.

With all the millions Wikipedia gets in donations every year, why can't they make it easier? What percentage goes towards improving these technologies? Why is the board not demanding better?

If Wikia can't even get imports to work, what chance do the rest of us have?

So MediaWiki goes from 1.000323 to 1.000324 and the whole system breaks? What kind of excuse is that? If doing the upgrade was going to make Wikipedia's export function break, they never should have gone ahead with it. Idiots! Idiots!