Comments on: Brion Vibber on Wikipedia and Mediawiki

By: Etnu

Etnu — Wed, 24 May 2006 02:25:10 +0000

Yahoo has more writes / sec than Wikipedia, and it’s mostly PHP (although not completely, of course). I’d use that as the “posterchild” for PHP before Wikipedia.

By: HarryF

HarryF — Tue, 23 May 2006 22:43:00 +0000

From the small conversation I had with someone implementing it it seems the wiki markup has been XML-ified.

OK - now that makes more sense of some of the things I’ve seen on their mailing list. They already seem to have some kind of mediawiki to xml parsing going on in here and the changes look recent. Interesting.

By: Ren

Ren — Tue, 23 May 2006 12:52:27 +0000

From the small conversation I had with someone implementing it it seems the wiki markup has been XML-ified.

By: HarryF

HarryF — Tue, 23 May 2006 07:27:47 +0000

I know there is some work being done on WYSIWYG editor for mediawiki. I guess this could be a possibility for replacing parsing.

How so? You mean eliminate use of wiki markup completely and use (X)HTML purely?

By: rexruff

rexruff — Tue, 23 May 2006 01:40:03 +0000

Thanks to Brion, he rocks!

By: Ren

Ren — Mon, 22 May 2006 23:16:14 +0000

I know there is some work being done on WYSIWYG editor for mediawiki. I guess this could be a possibility for replacing parsing.