Rob
this is not available at the present time.
Does this mean, Wikimedia sites (like de) use the compression but don't
offer decompression?? As a user I've never seen compressed stuff, so this is
weird... we really need somehow a workaround.
-- Stefan K.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: toolserver-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org [mailto:toolserver-l-
> bounces(a)Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:10 PM
> To: toolserver-l(a)wikipedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] Troubles with reading Articles
>
> Some text is stored compressed in the databases, and some is on
> external storage, a feature of MediaWiki which Wikimedia sites use;
this is not available at the present time.
>
>
> Rob Church
>
> On 22/03/06, Leo Büttiker <leo.buettiker(a)hsr.ch> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > For a toolserver-project I will read all Wikipedia (pwiki_de) articles
> and
> > parse them for geoinformation. After some troubles I've fixed now nearly
> all
> > bugs, but I have still some troubles with opening the articles.
> >
> > I open the article with the help of the mediawiki functions in the
> following
> > way:
> > $title = Title::newFromID($page_id);
> > $art = new Article($title);
> > $text = $art->getContent(true);
> >
> > For some articles this work quite well, but for some it doesn't return
> text. I
> > think there's a problem with the compresion of the database (in a local
> > enviroment with a wikipedia dump it works), but I could't find out a
> > workaround. Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Leo
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