I'll try to weigh in with a bit of useful information, but it probably won't help that much.
You'll need a quite impressive machine to host even just the current revisions of the wiki. Expect to expend 10s to even hundreds of gigabytes on the database alone for Wikipedia using only the current versions. There instructions for how to load the data that can be found by googling "wikipedia dump". Several others have inquired for more information about your goal, and I'm going to echo that. The mechanics of hosting this kind of data (volume, really) are highly related to the associated task. This data used for academic research would be handled differenty than for a live website, for example. Nobody likes to be told they can't do something, or get a bunch of useless responses to a request for help. Very sincerely, though, unless you find enough information from the dump instruction pages to point you on the right direction and are able to ask more specific questions, you are in over your head. Your solution at that point would be to hire somebody. Sent from my phone, Jeff On Jan 27, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Stephen Dunn <swd...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Folks: > > I am a newbie so I apologize if I am asking basic questions. How > would I go about hosting wiktionary allowing search queries via the > web using opensearch. I am having trouble fining info on how to set > this up. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
