[Wikipedia-l] Re: PHP wikipedia

[Jimmy Wales]

Yes, I agree!  It will be fine to use the German wiki.  It is large
enough to have lots of links to test, but small enough to be quick and
easy.

Magnus Manske wrote:

> Larry, that's a misunderstanding: We only want to copy the German data to my
> test wiki!
> 
> Don't panic,
> Magnus
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lsanger at nupedia.com [mailto:lsanger at nupedia.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 10:13 PM
> > To: Michael Dill
> > Cc: Magnus Manske; jwales at bomis.com; lsanger at nupedia.com
> > Subject: RE: PHP wikipedia
> >
> >
> > What we need is a test wiki.  I don't much like the idea of using the
> > German wiki as a test wiki--they've done a huge amount of work already,
> > and we don't want to mess it up.  Maybe we can make a copy of it and put
> > it at http://test.wikipedia.com/ .
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Michael Dill wrote:
> >
> > > Magnus,
> > >
> > > Go ahead and try the German version for the first
> > > tests. We can probably get Clifford Adams or someone
> > > to help sort out the current perl/CGI data formats. I
> > > beleve that Jimbo might have some information there...
> > >
> > > I don't know enough to help with the data conversion,
> > > but if we cant get any support from Clifford or
> > > someone at BOMIS, I will see if I can find a
> > > programmer or two to look at the tarball and help you
> > > with the structure.
> > >
> > > Jimbo,
> > >
> > > Would you help point us in the right direction here.
> > >
> > > Thanks to you all for great work!
> > >
> > > Mike Dill
> > > Phone 408-545-3675
> > >
> > > --- Magnus Manske <Magnus.Manske at epost.de> wrote:
> > > > --- Mike Dill <michael_dill at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > Yes, call the current PHP script at
> > > > > wikipedia.sourceforge.net a Beta.
> > > >
> > > > OK!
> > > >
> > > > > I think we need to clear out everything in the
> > > > test
> > > > > database and see how to install a copy of the
> > > > current
> > > > > data. This will allow us to test/debug the script
> > > > for
> > > > > the data conversion. It will probably take a dozen
> > > > > trys at porting it before we get the conversion
> > > > script
> > > > > into a reasonable shape. Then we can ask all the
> > > > > wikipedians to look at all the pages to check for
> > > > the
> > > > > remaining script inconsistancies.
> > > >
> > > > We not necessarily need to clean the DB. And, should
> > > > we try another
> > > > wikipedia (e.g., the German one) first? It's much
> > > > smaller, so conversion
> > > > won't take that long for the first tries. If that
> > > > works, we can purge the DB
> > > > and install the "real thing". What do you think?
> > > >
> > > > > If we can get those bugs out, then asking Jimbo to
> > > > > make the transition would be a reasonable
> > > > proposition.
> > > > > Until we can port the current data with some
> > > > accuracy,
> > > > > I feel that we should not push it on the world.
> > > >
> > > > Agreed.
> > > >
> > > > > Lets try a data convertion from the tarball and
> > > > see
> > > > > what comes out. When it seems reasonable to us
> > > > then
> > > > > Larry and Jimbo can decide when it should be
> > > > > implemented.
> > > >
> > > > I looked at the German tarball, which seems to be
> > > > quite old, and I suppose
> > > > the "real" data is in the "page" sub-sub-...-subdir.
> > > > Do you know if that's
> > > > it? Are just the old versions stored as diffs, or
> > > > the current version as
> > > > well? I'm not that good at perl/CGI, so...
> > > >
> > > > Magnus
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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