-----Original Message----- From: wikitech-l-admin@nupedia.com [mailto:wikitech-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of Jason Richey Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 6:58 PM To: Brion L. VIBBER Cc: Jan.Hidders; Wikitech-L Subject: Re: [Intlwiki-l] Re: [Wikitech-l] php-wiki de
Now, the programmer who wrote Nupedia (for the most part) is no longer with Bomis. I'm not sure what, if any, MySQL specific properties Nupedia uses (or Wikipedia, for that matter). I am not opposed to installing a different database, but I can't really spend a lot of time on the conversion of the software. Of course, it's not really my decision anyway...
The current Nupedia software seems pretty unusable at the moment (copyeditor pages, among others). Personally, I doubt it will see the rebirth of Nupedia. As I keep advertising ;) I'm rewriting the whole thing (http://nunupedia.sourceforge.net). I doubt any MySQL-specific queries will be necessary in that project, so there's no need to keep MySQL just for Nupedia's sake.
As for Wikipedia, except for the search function, I don't think there's much (if any) MySQL-specific stuff in there. Shouldn't be too hard to change to something else. Maybe we could use the Lee's test server for trying???
Magnus