[Wikipedia-l] PHP Wikipedia, Part 2

[Mark Christensen]

Magnus's PHP version of the Wikipedia is now available at:

Http://php.wikipedia.com/

You can also find another PHP and MySQL version of the WikiWiki software in
use at:

http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/

Perhaps we might be able to get some ideas and/or code from these guys.  I
don't know what license Magnus's version has, but the phpwiki at the above
link is GPLed, and has some useful features which we might want to implement
on our own PHP wiki.  One such feature, which has been very useful to me on
the current UseModWiki based version of WikiPedia is DIFF. 

Anyway, I now see that the code for Magnus's version is up, so I can look
more closely at the differences...

-----Original Message-----
From: lsanger at ross.bomis.com [mailto:lsanger at ross.bomis.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 3:05 PM
To: 'wikipedia-l at nupedia.com'
Subject: RE: [Wikipedia-l] PHP Wikipedia, Part 2


If anyone ever uploads an Internet-accessible version of the wiki, I'd
sure like to see it.

Larry

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Mark Christensen wrote:

> 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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