On 10/13/05, Ken D'Ambrosio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I love Wikipedia. A lot. Except for the fact that it's slow as dirt. So > I decided to run in locally, and downloaded their dump (a mere 16.7 GB), > untarred it... and don't know where to go from here.
Running it locally might not improve the speed that much, since it may be the application that crawls. I'm running a local mediawiki on my site[1] and it is not too fast. I used ezPublish once, and it was so gawd-awful slow, I could not deliver it as a 'product' even when put onto a reasonable hosting environment. My experience with wikipedia is that it is slower than I would like. But then again the content is soooo worth the wait. So, installing it locally might get you a performance boost. And at a minimum you've got a fun project to tinker with. (Do they offer a way to mirror the dump so that you can keep up to date?) You do have the mediawiki[2] code right? That's the application that runs Wikipedia. If all you have is a database dump, then you'll need to install mediawiki, and load the data to get started. hth, I'm offline tonight, but if you need more help at some point: IM freephile [1] http://nbptgnus.org [2] http://www.mediawiki.org I was kind of hoping > for, at least, a README or HOWTO or wiki entry on how to, or SOMETHING... > but I can't find diddly. > > They talk about a MySQL back-end, but don't I need the database they're > using, as well as the dump of all their data? Or...? > > Any pointers on this would be helpful. > > Thanks, > > -Ken > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
