Brion Vibber wrote:
Delirium wrote:
While I know there are plenty of logistical issues involved, I think from the point of view of the Foundation's charitable mission this is somewhat of a problem, because the point of producing Wikipedia is not just to put up an encyclopedia at *.wikipedia.org, but to produce encyclopedia articles that are Free and reusable by anyone. If the articles we distribute are only fully renderable by unreleased software or software that's particularly complex to set up and configure, that discourages third-party reuse.
And if that were true, I might agree.
Brion, thanks for offering to help.
Brion, it is true. The XML dumps are not renderable except on the unreleased Mediwiki. Take a look at the following. I am running 1.6.7 with all of the extensions installed against the 20060702 XMl dumps. The English and Cherokee versions are both broken. Also, SVG images are not rendered on 1.6.7 AT ALL from these dumps due to a bug in GetHeight and GetWidth in Image.php.
http://www.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Cherokee_Language
http://www.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Ute_Tribe
http://www.wikigadugi.org/wiki/Back_To_The_Future
Jeff
But PHP 5 is neither unreleased nor particularly complex to set up. It's been in production for years, is widely available on thousands of free and for-pay hosting services, and can be installed on any home computer or server in a manner of minutes using any number of package installers.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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