[Wikipedia-l] PHP Wikipedia

[lsanger at ross.bomis.com]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Magnus Manske wrote:
> I guess there are enough people out there who know some PHP, and it's easy
> to learn (easier than CGI, I think). As you know, Nupedia is PHP-based, and
> it works quite well. The script could also become a wikipedia "article"
> itself, which can be copied to a real file after an upgrade or error
> correction. It might be a good idea to limit write access to that "article",
> though. That could make a CVS unnecessary.

But if we had the CVS, we could test the code more easily, couldn't we?
Teach me, o master.

> Which is another thing I need to know. Should I implement a "rights
> management"? If yes, how? Probably group-based, with an "editor" group
> giving out special rights? And limits that can be changes for each page, or
> should that go by page name, like "/Talk is open to everyone, /Lock can only
> be changed by editors"? Please give me input on this!

Basically, if you can swing it, I think each page should have its own
*automatic* talk page that is not counted among the articles.  This has
all sorts of advantages.  Then, eventually, we could automatically port
all the [[Foo/Talk]] contents to the automatic-talk-page contents (if the
latter didn't already have some contents).  (We wouldn't want to do that
by hand.)

> Finally, I'm not sure I can do the long-term of the script maintnance
> myself. I'll work on the rights management and bug-fixing until it runs
> without bugs, of course, and can fix minor things when they pop up. But in a
> few weeks/month, I'll be quite busy at university, and can't promise
> anything there.

I think that's fantastic and no problems.

Larry