From: "Gregory Szorc" gregory.szorc@gmail.com
By themselves, these extensions aren't that exciting (unless you are the kind of person who enjoys a machine-readable format of your wiki structure.
Like me who would like to download the wikis for offline reading in a non-offending manner. The graph XML seems to be even better than the Allpages in machine readable form (which I suggested a while ago).
But could Special:GraphStructure be ever a default feature? How badly it behaves with large wikis?
I guess the GraphStructure gives a better meta-access to the document than Allpages because the graph can preserve the document hierarchy.
Juhana
On 9/14/06, Juhana Sadeharju kouhia@nic.funet.fi wrote:
But could Special:GraphStructure be ever a default feature? How badly it behaves with large wikis?
Currently, the extension works by building a graph of the entire wiki. All of the graphs it outputs are just subsets of this large graph. This method is very inefficient for large wikis, as the time it takes to construct the whole wiki data structure is immense. It would be trivial to create functions that only populate nodes and edges connected to a specific node or set of nodes. This would improve load times dramatically.
For a wiki like the English Wikipedia, it is doubtful an extension like this could ever be deployed on a live site for reasons of scalability. It would be possible for the XML output to be generated at regular intervals and published somewhere, however.
If anyone has any suggestions for further improvement, let me know.
Greg
I've got MediaWiki 1.71 running on Apache now, installation went well! Just one thing... how do you enable SVG upload, and ImageMagick rendering??
do I have to copy into LocalSettings.php??
Bekki
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