Wikipedia talk:Software Phase III

" You can help test the software by going there now, reading and editing articles just as you would here. " Shouldn't we warn people that their edits will be lost when we dump that article database and install this one? --maveric149
 * Thanx for the fix. --mav

It really feels faster now. I was experiencing delays and connection errors from wikipedia. When the server is down, people think the project is abandoned. A fast server helps to keep the motivation high. Excellent. -- Monday, July 18 2002 ChaTo

''Q: If it's free, why is it so hard to find a current d/l release that isn't almost one year out-dated? '' --Anon


 * Because you didn't read PHP script which explains how to download the current release via CVS. --Brion 16:34 Aug 24, 2002 (PDT)

''For your information, yes I did read that document and many others. So I ask my question again, why is it so difficult to download a copy of the script? I don't speak "CVS" .. I speak .ZIP. Only hard-core programmers and developers would know what CVS let alone how to use it! What's so hard about making a 100-200k .zip file available for people to download? Could someone make the .ZIP available so I can download it? Thanks!'' -- Anon


 * Because the software's being constantly updated, and any ZIP file you could get at would soon be of date anyway. (If you just want to look at the source, you can browse the current contents of the CVS repository here.) However, since you asked nicely I've made a snapshot of the current version: wikipedia-phase3-fromcvs.tar.gz (Don't worry, WinZip can open tar.gz archives.) --Brion 02:01 Aug 28, 2002 (PDT)

Since it's been a major phase and nearly a year, I would be happy to upload another tarball here, and in fact I've made one for everyone's convenience. But I don't see how I can upload tarballs.... Steverapaport 13:00, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Can a nightly zip/tar/whatever build not be scripted? -anon2

Q: I have installed the script and I am using it succesfully. One question has arisen: I see you can ban IPs and you can ban anonymoususers easily through Recentchanges. But if I wanted to ban a registered User, how would I do that, Is there a place where I can see which IP the (registered) user is using? -- R. U. Serious 14:19 Oct 9, 2002 (UTC)


 * No way at the moment, sorry. The IP isn't stored with the edit if the user is logged in. --Brion 17:44 Oct 9, 2002 (UTC)


 * You can add user names to the blocking table manually in SQL. There's no interface for that function, but the software will check user names against the block list as well as IP addresses.  I didn't think that was the kind of thing we'd be doing often enough to merit having an interface for it.  --LDC

I am wondering if the Software Phase III can only run under Unix, or Linux? I am not good at programming or something like that. It took me a long long time to install the PHP, but when I was installing the Phase III, the system told me that it couldn't find mysql.so ( something like that, i don't remember well ). I've installed MySQL already. Is that the problem of the OS? I am using Windows XP, can that run on that platform? and I am wondering that filetype '.so' is? Thank you! --Samuel 19:08, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is run and primarily developed on Linux (my test system at home runs FreeBSD at the moment, other Unices should generally fare similarly well). Windows probably should work, but as far as I know no developers are actively trying to run the software on a Windows system.


 * You should probably check out newsgroups, IRC channels, or bulletin boards specializing in PHP on Windows for help in getting PHP to talk to MySQL. (.so is the extension for dynamically linked libraries on many Unix platforms, the equivalent of .dll files in Windows. If something is asking for .so files on your Windows box, it's probably not set up right.) --Brion 20:31, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)


 * Thank you, Brion. In fact, I don't know what I've installed exactly, I just did that according to the 'README' files. I think that's would run better on Unix? Maybe I should turn to Unix... :p, I've given up installing that now. :( --Samuel 06:32, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)