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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by yoz-y on Monday May 31, 2021 @05:12AM (#27341968)
> If they used an efficient language instead of PHP, that's well within the capability of a single modern server!

Hm, since Wikipedia dumps are public, has anybody tried? Moving wikipedia itself might be a large endeavor, but seeing some submissions on HN I think a very dedicated dev or two could possibly manage a rewrite to have a proof of concept.

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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by mschuster91 on Monday May 31, 2021 @05:45AM (#27342233)
Mediawiki markup language is not efficiently parse-able and extremely complex with lots of bolted-on features, which is why it took ages for the visual editor to be implemented as a prototype and to iron out the bugs.

For any attempt at porting over MW, you will need to re-implement the whole parse/include stuff... and that is a lot of work, even for a proper team.

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Re:Wikipedia is swimming in money–why is it begging people t... by bawolff on Monday May 31, 2021 @12:08PM (#27345468)
So just steal the parser part
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