Charlie Hull schrieb:
> 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.
Since I'm also one of the main wiki engine developers I can
comment:
We wanted to talk last Tuesday at #wikiohana about the new
wikia search
project, but then we postponed it to the next months
meeting.
http://wikiohana.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/IrcMeetingJune2007
I'm working on a tighter integration of xapian-omega into
phpwiki right
now. It will be in 1.3.14.
--
Reini Urban
http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/
http://helsinki.at/ http://spacemovie.mur.at/
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