(Michel Mouly <mmouly(a)wanadoo.fr>)r>):
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.
--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee(a)piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC