Hello, all.
I just began looking into using the Wikipedia software for my thinktank website, Theoretic Solutions [ www.theoretic.com ]. I had been staying away from Wikis despite their clear benefit to managing lots of information from different people because of the awkward CamelCase-ing. However, When I stumbled upon Wikipedia's new PHP script, I realized it was perfect. Unfortunately, it requires MySQL, whereas I have Postgre installed. Is there any way to add Postgre support easily enough, or should I continue my search elsewhere? I'm afriad I do not know PHP, although often employ Perl programmers, so hopefully I could return the favor somehow. Thanks, all.
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:52:36PM -0500, Adam Theo wrote:
Hello, all.
I just began looking into using the Wikipedia software for my thinktank website, Theoretic Solutions [ www.theoretic.com ]. I had been staying away from Wikis despite their clear benefit to managing lots of information from different people because of the awkward CamelCase-ing. However, When I stumbled upon Wikipedia's new PHP script, I realized it was perfect. Unfortunately, it requires MySQL, whereas I have Postgre installed. Is there any way to add Postgre support easily enough, or should I continue my search elsewhere? I'm afriad I do not know PHP, although often employ Perl programmers, so hopefully I could return the favor somehow. Thanks, all.
Many Wikis can use freelinks in addition to CamelCase, so the easiest think you can do is just check other Wikis.
For what I know, PHP script uses some special MySQL features, like full text search, so it probably won't be trivial to port.
I think that your Perl programmers will be able to program PHP. After all, PHP is very similar to ePerl.
But it's database issue, not PHP programming, so DB expert would be more appropriate than PHP or Perl expert.
I believe and hope we are not using any MySQL specific nonstandard extensions to SQL. If that's true, then supporting a different database engine should be easy enough.
While it seems likely that Wikipedia software will be useful to lots of people doing lots of different things, I think that we developers of the software should continue to think of these uses as secondary to our central mission, which is the encyclopedia.
In other words, I'd like for wikitech-l to continue to focus on tools for wikipedia, as opposed to general collaborative authoring tools.
Of course, in many ways, it's the same thing.
--Jimbo
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