[Wikipedia-l] PHP Wikipedia, Part 2

[Magnus Manske]

Thanks a lot, I'm happy you like it. I was already smelling the eggs thrown
at me in my mind ;)

Hey Larry, just saw your mail - it's up at php.wikipedia.com !

AND, I uploaded the PHP source to wikipedia (just to be safe...) under
[[Wikipedia PHP script]].

Now the bad news (well, not bad for me...) : I am on short-notice vacation,
starting toworrow, for about a week. Sorry, but this was last-minute, and
there's no other time slot I could take.

I hope you'll manage without me for a few days (unbelievable!). I'll try to
stay in contact.

So far,
Magnus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wikipedia-l-admin at nupedia.com
> [mailto:wikipedia-l-admin at nupedia.com]On Behalf Of Mark Christensen
> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 8:52 PM
> To: 'wikipedia-l at nupedia.com'
> Subject: RE: [Wikipedia-l] PHP Wikipedia, Part 2
>
>
> I've been tooling around on the php wikipedia, and it is very nice!
> Congratulations.
>
> Great job with the statistics page, it'll be very useful.
>
> The parser works well with the couple pages I imported, generally I'm very
> impressed.
>
> Are you planning to post the code for this on one of the php.wikipedia.com
> pages as you mentioned in a previous e-mail.  I'd be very interested in
> seeing it.
>
> The one problem I see thus far is that UseModWiki allows subpage
> links on a
> subpage to other subpages of the main page.  I know that's not the best
> description, but in the original wikipedia software a [[/subtalk]] link on
> [[MainPage/talk]] would lead to [[MainPage/subtalk]].  We may not want to
> emulate this, as it is certainly not intuitive, but there are a lot of
> pages, like poker, with subpages that link to other subpages -- either our
> parser needs to automatically translate these links or the PHP wikipedia
> should deal with them in the same way as UseModWiki.
>
> Yours
> Mark Christensen
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Manske [mailto:Magnus.Manske at epost.de]
> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 3:30 AM
> To: Wikipedia-L at Nupedia. Com
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] PHP Wikipedia, Part 2
>
>
> Jason is activating php.wikipedia.com for the script to test, which should
> be working later today. So, soon you can flood me with bug reports ;)
>
> Some points that were mentioned on the list while I was asleep:
> - Larry, I don't oppose CVS as such, I just thought why bother...
>   So, I wouldn't mind a CVS at all.
>
> - Edit locks : I thought they'd protect a page that is edited for
> a certain
> time, e.g., 5 minutes, so there won't be two edits of the same text at the
> same time. Now that I know it's only for writing, I am glad to not have
> wasted time in implementing such a thing in my script ;)
>   The MySQL server will take care of the write-at-the-same-time
> problem, for
> sure.
>
> - /Talk pages : Changing the standard text for new documents so
> they'd have
> a /Talk page should do it, right? I could also have the parser look for
> "/Talk" and append it if necessary in a "top-level" article.
>
> - Conversion to SQL format : The easiest way I can think of is a
> script that
> goes through all articles in the current wikipedia and generates
> a complete
> article text in chronoligical order (oldest first). After each
> "version" is
> generated, a variant of my script can store it in the DB. That
> would ensure
> identical data. Anyone to write a "generation" script?
>
> - Lame names : How about "Aide-Pikiw" (wikipedia spelled backwards)? That
> must be the lamest, for sure? ;)
>
> Magnus
>
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