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From: wikitech-l-admin(a)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