“We already store data. In a database. It works well”

Re:“We already store data. In a database. It works well” by ansible on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:41AM (#22297467)

MediaWiki (the actual Wikipedia website) runs on top of a traditional SQL database (originally just MySQL, but others are now supported too):

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide

There have been various forays into Semantic Web technologies. Previously people have done things like parse the infoboxes on Wikipedia pages and then import that into a triple store.

It seems that now the Wikimedia Foundation is finally interested in moving in this direction. But the software isn't there yet, certainly not at the scale Wikipedia needs.

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Re:“We already store data. In a database. It works well” by zozbot234 on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @05:54AM (#22297528)

The website you link to states that the support for non-MySQL-derived db's (PostgreSQL and SQLite) is buggy and that not many people are working on it. It seems that legacy constraints are essentially forcing them to stay with their old flaky PHP codebase and MariaDB database. So much for that blockchain thing!

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Re:“We already store data. In a database. It works well” by spauka on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:05AM (#22298123)

Where does it say that? My reading of the linked page suggests that MSSQL and Oracle are being deprecated, but SQLite and Postgres are supported and maintained.

In fact, SQLite is the first database listed on the detailed install instructions page[1]!

[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installing_MediaWiki#C...

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Re:“We already store data. In a database. It works well” by ansible on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @08:12AM (#22298169)

I've been running a small, low-traffic SQLite3 instance for many years.

Actually, too many... I need to go and upgrade it.

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