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
!
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(a)nupedia.com
[mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of Mark Christensen
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 8:52 PM
To: 'wikipedia-l(a)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@epost.de]
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 3:30 AM
To: Wikipedia-L@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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