Xapian and Mediawiki?

Hi all

I wonder if anyone has done any work on integrating Xapian
with Mediawiki?

I've been having trouble with the default MySQL-based search
index built
in to Mediawiki and setting up their recommended Lucene.net
solution
looks a bit arduous.

I see that some Moin-based wikis have adopted Xapian.

Cheers
JP

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John Pye wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has done any work on integrating
Xapian with Mediawiki?
> 
> I've been having trouble with the default MySQL-based
search index built
> in to Mediawiki and setting up their recommended
Lucene.net solution
> looks a bit arduous.
> 
> I see that some Moin-based wikis have adopted Xapian.

There was a "google summer of code" project last
summer which 
implemented a Xapian based search backend for MoinMoin,
which is why 
that's happening.  I don't know of anyone doing the same for
Mediawiki 
though, unfortunately.

It'd be lovely if someone were to implement a Xapian based
search 
backend for Mediawiki.  I'm playing with a dump of the
wikipedia data 
for doing some performance tests at present, but that's not
quite the 
same thing...

-- 
Richard

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Richard Boulton wrote:
> John Pye wrote:
>> I wonder if anyone has done any work on integrating
Xapian with 
>> Mediawiki?
>>
>> I've been having trouble with the default
MySQL-based search index built
>> in to Mediawiki and setting up their recommended
Lucene.net solution
>> looks a bit arduous.
>>
>> I see that some Moin-based wikis have adopted
Xapian.
> 
> There was a "google summer of code" project
last summer which 
> implemented a Xapian based search backend for MoinMoin,
which is why 
> that's happening.  I don't know of anyone doing the
same for Mediawiki 
> though, unfortunately.
> 
> It'd be lovely if someone were to implement a Xapian
based search 
> backend for Mediawiki.  I'm playing with a dump of the
wikipedia data 
> for doing some performance tests at present, but that's
not quite the 
> same thing...
> 
Yes, this would be great - we've never quite managed to get
around to 
doing a Wikipedia search using Xapian.

There's also Jimmy Wales' search-engine-for-the-masses
project 
(http://sear
ch.wikia.com/wiki/Search_Wikia) - I've suggested Xapian
for 
this but they seem more interested in Lucene. Lots of talk,
little 
action at the moment, but I believe they have servers.

Charlie

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