(Michel Mouly mmouly@wanadoo.fr):
wikipedia : the last versions of the files found on source forge, loaded one by one (how to dump the CVS??)
Get an account on Sourceforge. Install CVS (I have no idea how to do this for Windows). Then use:
cvs -d <name>@cvs.wikipedia.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/wikipedia checkout phpwiki
to get the sources all at once. Then just "cvs update" to get new ones whenever they change.
a) The script createdb.php fails if there is already a db. This is due to lack of deletion of table user_newtalk in buildTables.inc
Thanks; fixed.
b) The database as obtained starting with an empty directory and running the script createdb.php is such that the search function always answers that it found nothing. Running rebuildindex.php corrects that. May be this is the normal policy, and rebuildindex.php must be run regularly??
It has to be run once; it became a separate script because those tables and that functionality were added recently. I'll update the docs.
c) I loaded the current state of the french articles (smaller than the english, and I'm french btw). There again, basic functions runs correctly except for the search.
I tried to run rebuildindex.php, but it aborts, seemingly some timer in the server (message is an overload indication). Is there any way to do that without invoking the server? For instance, a MySQL script would be handy!
Hmm. Yes, if you load pages through SQL, you have to rebuild the indexes again. Maybe the French SQL dump was in an old format? Brion?
d) When I edit a page, the submit yields a blank page after a long time. Likely to be a pb in the php scripts, but this seems beyond my competence.
e) After a submit on a new page, I can see the modification only after deleting the IE cache and recalling wiki.phtml. I set the browser to checking most recent version at each page download, but the behaviour is the same.
Got me there. I'm afraid I can't be much help for Windows.
This being said, congratulations to all of you (and also Xitami, php and MySQL). It is quite impressive that the code and docs allowed me with my limited experience to go so far in so little time!
Well I had never used PHP or MySQL before I wrote it; no doubt our shared ignorance helps us communicate.
In all honesty, though, I don't think the Wikipedia software is really good for personal use. There are a lot of smaller, simpler Wikis that do a great job--I use UseMod for my personal site, for example. I really wrote this one for one and only one goal: to run Wikipedia. If it's useful for other things,I certainly don't mind, but that's not a goal I ever had.