[OSM-talk] Test Import of forum.osm.org to community.osm.org

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Old links will continue to work, right?

Including links in posts linking other posts (that now
link to the original forum)


Feb 21, 2023, 13:27 by openstreetmap at firefishy.com:

> Hi OSM Talk,
>
> In the near future we will be moving the old forum.osm.org content to
> community.openstreetmap.org
>
> If you used the old forum, please login to the test import site
> https://forum-import-test.openstreetmap.org/ to check your old posts.
>
> The imported content is at the bottom half of the test import site.
> The database snapshot used for the test is from 02 Feb 2023.
>
> The old forum has 847000+ posts by 35000+ users in 91 categories. The
> longest thread has 14700+ posts!
> The old forum used fluxbb bbcode markdown, while
> community.openstreetmap.org uses discourse's flavour of markdown.
> The import markdown conversion can never be 100%, but it now appears
> to have reached "good enough".
>
> We heavily extended the original fluxbb discourse importer with
> additional features:
> * Significantly improved fluxbb bbcode -> discourse markdown
> converter, including fixes.
> * Added Permalink support (To test for now use old forum url path +
> parameters on forum-import-test.openstreetmap.org)
> * OSM specific old forum to community account merging allowing
> seamless login using osm.org account oauth flow.
> * Added unit tests
>
> We are trying to contribute the improvements upstream where appropriate.
>
> There will also be a few tasks the forum governance team will be
> responsible for post final import, notably:
> * Manually merge duplicate categories (eg: country categories)
> * Mark old abandoned categories as read-only.
> * Manually merge duplicate users where the importer did not
> automatically merge (very limited cases).
>
> Big thank you to Harry Wood, Tom Hughes and others who have helped
> write code, fix bugs or assisted in other ways.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Grant
> Part of the OpenStreetMap Ops Team
>
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