Well, on Wikimedia sites it'll be handled within the software, won't it? Old versions which are compressed will be decompressed for viewing and for calculating diffs. The same is true for external storage.
On the toolserver, we have the problem that it's a different setup; we don't have access to the external storage grid (that I know of and at the moment; Kate has ways and means). Compressed stuff should still be okay to view, but I bet there's less of it.
Rob Church
On 22/03/06, Stefan F. Keller sfkeller@hsr.ch wrote:
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@Wikipedia.org [mailto:toolserver-l- bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:10 PM To: toolserver-l@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@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?
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