Wikipedia.

[Sarunas]

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Ken D'Ambrosio 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.  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...?
> 
Wikipedia is an instance of MediaWiki wiki, as far as I understand it.
And MediaWiki uses MySQL as a backend (to store all the textual content
too). It looks like you should install MediaWiki and the import the data
from their MySQL dump.. Just a guess, I haven't done this, but I run an
instance of MediWiki at my work.

Sarunas Burdulis
Sysadmin at Math, Dartmouth


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