Re changing the post-specific links in the Wiki, can I pretend the links (slack/topic IDs) will stay the same as in the test import?
IDs are dynamically generated and only known at time of import.
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Ok, than I’ll just wait until the import is done and dusted. Thx.
Oh… can’t someone find a bug so that we can reach the next milestone of 330,000 posts in the old DE forum? Oops… 
A little joke. But by the way, individual technical discussions still take place here. So long running posts are not taken out of context!
Sven
I think the conclusion has been reached: first milestone: 330,000 contributions: MitteloberrheinischerWaldameisenschreck
The next symmetry of contributions has also been achieved: 330.033: User Map_HeRo
The final supersymmetry of the 333,333 posts of the old German forum would now be a very hard job!
OSM is leisure, hobby and occasionally fun… That’s part of it! Thank you.
Better convert now!
Sven
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https://forum.openstreetmap.org is down since midnight.
The final import of the old forum has started.
Once the import is done (~ Wednesday morning UTC), I will then get the old urls working. For now the old forum is completely offline during the import.
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21k of 53k topics are already imported.
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572000 / 847796 (67%) of posts now imported.
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Good news, hopefully transition will finish soon, and email functionality restored, as it still says to me:
All outgoing email has been globally disabled by an administrator. No email notifications of any kind will be sent.
The final import of the old forum has started.
The import has now been completed. All imported content redirects are in place.
There is a simple feed redirect to a static feed asking users to update their feed.
The site certificate now has alt names for forum.openstreetmap.org and forum.osm.org
The @forums-governance will over the next few days merge duplicate categories and make other clean ups.
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I kept a spreadsheet with links to all my posts in the old forum.
Nice to see that the links still work and now point to this forum. Great work! 
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Thanks for mentioning this - I have a short spreadsheet with links to a couple of topix in the old forum which I found most interesting and these linke are also working as before … yes, truly great job and well done @Firefishy (and others who have contributed to this result).
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The quality of the migration is much higher than I expected. 
Many thanks for this to @Firefishy, @TomH, @Harry_Wood and all those I forgot to mention. 
A nice gift for women’s day. 
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What can I say… It works! It really works! I am absolutely thrilled! It took a while, but it was worth the wait! Many thanks to everyone involved from me too! Thanks also for the fact that the impatience of many, including me, was rewarded! Now the pendulum of the mapper and forum user is swinging normally again! Great!
Sven
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Great job!
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Anyone watching… the old test site https://forum-import-test.openstreetmap.org/ has now been removed.
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Question re the old Country categories merging thanks.
I was under the impression that they were going to merge into the new Communities?
Oceania - OpenStreetMap Community says “Duplicate Country categories have been merged”, but we also now have users: Australia - OpenStreetMap Community & users: New Zealand - OpenStreetMap Community
Are these going to be merged into Oceania, or is there something we have to do?
Thanks!
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