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All The Little Things Manual:Short URL Short URLs or URL Rewrites hide complex programming code from the page address are good for your audience. Please take a few minutes to devise a stable URL structure for your website before getting started, to reduce problems later. Introduction[edit | edit source] Goal[edit | edit source] MediaWiki's default installation path usually looks something like this: /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mediawiki/w (installed as root user) /home/johndoe/public_html/mediawiki/w (installed with a shared hosting provider) MediaWiki's default page addresses looks like these examples: (recent versions of MediaWiki, without CGI support) Using the methods outlined on this page, we can configure something like this: This is the most common configuration, same as in Wikipedia, though not the default because it requires server side modifications Guides[edit | edit source] Solutions:
Extreme Science Who Writes Wikipedia? I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford. Wales told us about Wikipedia’s history, technology, and culture, but one thing he said stands out. “The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia,” he noted, “is that it’s some emergent phenomenon — the wisdom of mobs, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing — thousands and thousands of individual users each adding a little bit of content and out of this emerges a coherent body of work.”† But, he insisted, the truth was rather different: Wikipedia was actually written by “a community … a dedicated group of a few hundred volunteers” where “I know all of them and they all know each other”. Really, “it’s much like any traditional organization.” The difference, of course, is crucial. So did the Gang of 500 actually write Wikipedia? Stanford wasn’t the only place he’s made such a claim; it’s part of the standard talk he gives all over the world. At Stanford the students were skeptical. Excellent article.
Tag domas mituzas: vaporware, inc. » Blog Archive » Five minutes of MediaWiki performance tuning MediaWiki is quite complex package, and some even trivial features are not the ones that should be enabled on sites having more load. Though it is quite modular, still lots of code has to be executed, and some of it requires additional steps to be done. I did my tests on simple desktop – not some fancy server, so your mileage may vary. So, with fresh PHP 5.2.0 install (on top of lighty), it took 217ms to render the default Main Page. pecl install APCadd extension=apc.so to php.iniadd $wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL; into LocalSettings.php This way we cut the execution time to… 50ms. Our next step is to disable ‘visits’ counter, that displays number of visits at each page. A final touch for now is editing MediaWiki:Aboutsite, Aboutpage, pagetitle, pagetitle-view-mainpage, opensearch-desc tagline, tooltip-search system messages, and changing {{SITENAME}} into your proper site name. Update (2009/09/07): With 1.16 (and releases since I wrote the article) there’re more performance settings:
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