Last modified: 2014-03-26 05:54:44 UTC
Perhaps this feature should be filed against the website but I couldn't find one. The downloads page at http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html has lots of useful information but it is all clumped together in an arbitrary order. It would be nice to turn this page into a sortable table as is used on some Wikipedia articles where a user can can choose to sort the data by date/time, by project, or by language.
That is a static page (non wiki) so would need to find a script to do it nicely. Probably might be easier if so desired to instead of having that auto generated page, have a bot output the details onto a wiki.
Is the code which creates this page included in the source repository? I might take a look at it.
Andrew: See http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Dumps#Code for the codebase.
(In reply to comment #3) > Andrew: See http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Dumps#Code for the codebase. Looking at the repo mentioned (operations/dumps), I'm not sure backup-index.html comes from there (cf. <https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/operations%2Fdumps/bf268a25cf5556df6cb3dc98db539145cef5677e>). This bug may be a dependency of bug 52055. Ariel would know for sure.
I have added a link to 'sorted by wiki name' which will show up in a few hours on our servers. Is this sufficient for your needs?
I'd still personally prefer a sortable table. :-) If we can point to a specific code repo, I think making this index page a single HTML file that's a sortable table would be a fairly good programming exercise for a beginning programmer (i.e., could use the "easy" keyword).
As long as sortable doesn't mean "needs javascript" I'm fine with that, except that I would prefer css be used to make the layout more table-like rather than usin actual html tables. See modules/snapshot/files/dumps/templates/progress.html in the operations puppet git repo if you know someone interested. In the meantime I'm going to leave this change in place, since it does give a second sort order for those who wanted it.