test website delayed copying content from there. Also, it was not possible to transfer data directly from one SQL server to the other, thus the newly developed page export and import feature of MediaWiki had to be used. Several bugs and deficiencies were detected during the process and had to be overcome. Since it was not possible to transfer user accounts and passwords, a volunteer developed and hosted a dual login web page allowing to supply two username/password pairs which were automatically verified against either wiki. If successful, a public list of user name pairs was updated, so the user continuity and proper attribution was guaranteed. Towards the end of April, 2006, the Wikipedia became eventually usable with page data and its history, but cleaning up various remains of the problems left behind by the transition took several more months. The WiKoelsch wiki was kept online for quite a while. It went offline as late as early fall 2007. It is but to some degree available in the Internet Archive. Wikipedia Though a Colognian localization of MediaWiki had already been begun during the preparation phase, it was incomplete and had in part become outdated. With the advent of the Wikipedia, a new move was made to continue collaboratively; initially in the German Wikipedia and later, since mid-2006, in the Ripuarian one. Although it had been planned to provide at least two varieties of Ripuarian, that did not work out due to a series of mishaps. In the last days of August, 2006, only one of the localizations went online. Towards the end of the year 2006, a series of harsh and in part unnecessarily personal arguments were held about the spellings in the Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages. They led to almost two months of edit-warring and an apparently non-serious proposal of a Colognian-only Wikipedia. In early 2007 some regular, productive contributors withdrew. On January 9, 2009, the ksh Wikipedia was mentioned in an own short article in a local newspaper. Statistics There are articles on this edition of Wikipedia and a total of pages. This language edition has an article depth of , compared to the English Wikipedia's . As of , this is the Wikipedia with the third-highest article depth. total edits were made. There are registered users, including active users and administrators. References External links Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages mobile version of the Wikipedia of Ripuarian languages (not