[Wikipedia-l] PHP Wikipedia

[Jimmy Wales]

How difficult do you think it will be to import all the existing wikipedia data
into your version?

What's your take on the general availability of PHP skills on the net, versus
Perl skills?

I've been talking to Clifford Adams about the future of Wikipedia and UseModWiki,
and he's given his blessing to a Wikipedia-centric fork of his code.  Some of the
design goals for UseModWiki, namely that it be easy to install, etc., aren't necessarily
consistent with some of the more highly specialized needs of Wikipedia.  He suggests
that we find someone (Magnus? :-)) to take over the forked version, and that we could
set up a modern CVS, etc.

I'm reluctant to go the PHP route, partially because I don't personally know much
about PHP, but if you can convince me that it's sufficiently superior to a mod_perl
or perl fastcgi solution, I'm thinking that we could go your route.  Your code could
be wikipedia-centric, and we could all learn to help you with it.

--Jimbo


Magnus Manske wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> as a few of you might know, I just wrote a complete (well, almost) Wikipedia
> software as a PHP script!
> 
> It has all essential wiki features like article editing, version management,
> user management, subpages, etc.
> Additionally, its data storage is completely MySQL (fast!), it has a file
> upload tool, some other goodies soon.
> Maybe best of all, script and database are prepared to support some kind of
> editor/superuser functionality for "locking" pages, as it is currently
> discussed.
> 
> Now to the bad sides (yes, there are some...)
> - I don't have a server to host it yet. Maybe I can run it on the Nupedia
> server sometimes. So, no trying yet, sorry.
> - The parser (to convert the source text into readable stuff) is very basic.
> I copied the HomePage and the SandBox from wikipedia, and they look about
> the same, but this is wherte the bugs will be.
> - Currently, I don't have a means to convert wikipedia to MySQL
> automatically, which is what would have to be done if (IF!) this script ever
> gets used.
> 
> Just letting you know there's an early but working alternative ready...
> 
> Magnus
> 
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