[Mediawiki-l] Source code for en.wikipedia.org?

Wed Oct 12 20:41:12 UTC 2005

The search module is called Lucene Search - http://lucene.apache.org
for more details. It's running on an experimental server, although
last I heard, it was disabled for performance reasons.

Rob Church

On 12/10/05, Hínandil <hinandil at freespirits.org> wrote:
> Lili Wu wrote:
> > There are some very nice features on http://en.wikipedia.org, like the different template or the customized special pages (like the Search page which lists the search results in a different fashion, and the UserLogin page which has a prettier UI).  Since I'm new to wiki and php, and really like the enhancement done on wikipedia.org, is there a way I can look at the customized source code for wikipedia.org or other wiki projects like wikinews?  I am not experienced enough to reinvent the wheel...
>
> Yes, any user interface enhancements (and some are very nice!) are
> actually just changes to pages in the MediaWiki namespace.  You can view
> them on Wikipedia and make similar (or totally custom) changes to your
> on wiki the same way.  Just check out the page Special:Allmessages for a
> list of these special pages.  Each and every one can be customized special.
>
> As for the search, they're using some sort of Java backend but I don't
> remember the particulars.  You'll want to search the list
> archives--Brion Vibber mentions the software used once or twice.
>
> Hínandil
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