* caoyanjiao987 <[email protected]> [Mon, 7 Mar 2011 20:27:01 +0800 (CST)]: > Dear Mr/Miss: > Sorry to interrupt you but there are two problems to ask you > for help. It puzzles us for a long time. > We built a local wiki using mediawiki by downloading the page > articles fromhttp://download.wikimedia.org/enwiki. However, the data > cannot be imported completely by virtue of the mwdumper.jar and it > stopped halfway saying that there is IllegalArguments. We tried > different source data but no use. Is there something wrong with our > configuration? It's hard to work correctly with these huge dumps. Try to download a different dump. Someone would have better answer than me.
> Besides, given a word pair "lion cat" as the query, the > results returned from the local wiki are differnt from that on the web. > Wikipedia on the web returned many items for the query but the local > wiki returned no results. How can make them make return the same query > results. Wikipedia uses Lucene search, while MediaWiki's default install search is MySQL MyISAM fulltext index - which is much simplier and slower. You may try to install Lucene http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Lucene SphinxSearch is somewhat simplier alternative, probably a bit easier to install - I use it at some wikis. Dmitriy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
