I found this in the 1.7.0 release notes http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/tags/REL1_7_0/phase3/RELEASE-N OTES. I guess this says it all.
== Compatibility == Experimental Oracle support has been dropped as it is unmaintained.
Oh well, I'll need to find another wiki or get my DB people to also support MySQL, which they snear at, so it may take many meetings with lots of free food.
-Jim
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Church [mailto:robchur@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:24 AM To: Wikimedia developers Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Oracle Support?
On 23/08/06, Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] sullivan@mail.nih.gov wrote:
I'm interested in MediaWiki running with Oracle and after searching through the archives it appears there was an attempt back around version 1.5 - 1.6 but nothing since then. Is there a plan to support Oracle in the future or has it be put on the shelf?
I don't think there's an official effort. From time to time, people whinge about it, and our lead developer invites them or their organisation to contact him if interested in helping out, but nothing happens.
This isn't unusual; it took a good deal of time for us to get decent PostgreSQL support.
The WikiMatrix (http://www.wikimatrix.org/) reports MediaWiki supports
Oracle. I guess that is incorrect at this time?
Yes. I wouldn't trust services that don't seem to verify or update information, myself...
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