Wikipedia software was Re: [kDev] RFC: Kendra Tools Project Plan 1...

[Daniel Harris <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil's email bounced so I've forwarded it to the list... Please send 
email with your registered email so avoiding me having to do this...

Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:22:45 +0000
From: Neil Harris

I'd start off by looking at the Phase III Wikipedia software.

It meets several of the requirements already, namely:

* International: already supports a large number of languages,
extensible to any Unicode-supported language.
Current list: English, and Afrikaans - Araby - Bosanskom - Català -
C(esky´ - Dansk - Deutsch - Euskara - Español - Esperanto - Eesti -
Suomi - Français - Frysk - Interlingua - Italiano - Nihongo - Hangukeo -
Latina - Nederlands - Norsk - Polska - Português - ??????? -
Srpskohrvatska - Slovensko - Svenska - Türkçe - Hanyu

* Logging: full history for all pages, support for admin tools
* Syndication: RSS feeds already running.
* Comment feedback: yes
* Per-user namespaces: yes

Other advantages:
* highly customizable
* existing developer and 1000+ user base
* current database exceeds 100,000 articles with full histories
* written in PHP
* bag database on Sourceforge
* support for image download and TeX for formulas
* tested under high loads (300,000 hits/day +)
* supports interactive content updates (2000+ edits/day)
* currently runs on a single 2-cpu server running Linux
* uses clean client-server design, so scalable to multiple page-servers
sharing a database
* provision for page caching
* GPL licence

Drawbacks:
* currently runs on MySQL, although a port to PostgreSQL has been
discussed * performance is currently limited by write-locking, although 
a
shift to  Postgres should fix this

Neil