User:OrenBochman/Installation

=Notes On Importing Wiktionary=

App Stack Installation

 * 1) installed xamp in D:\xampp\
 * 2) skype blocked port 80
 * 3) had to change security settings which blocked control panel from starting apache

Media Wiki installation

 * 1) decompressed media wiki to D:\xampp\htdocs\mediawiki
 * 2) browsed to http://localhost/mediawiki/ and followed instructions
 * 3) however it is nececssary to use binary representation and not UTF=8 in db otherwise mwdumper will fail
 * 4) changeing settings:
 * 5) editing LocalSettings.php and adding '$wgCapitalLinks=false;' to the end and then running cleanUpCaps.php from the command line

Extensions

 * 1) Since My main purpose is Development related (bots and indexing) I wanted to introduce sufficent extetions to allow decent dumping
 * 2) consult ...
 * 3) download
 * 4) decompress to
 * 5) edit LocalSettings.php adding require( "extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php"); to the end

Importing Contents

 * 1) importing via ... will take forever and has problems with the term Wiktionary in the interwiki namespace table
 * 2) importing via mwdumper with some db modification took about 12 hours.
 * 3) unfortunately it crashed every time requiring one to drop the db and reinstall.
 * 4) to speed things up I removed the indexes from the Text Page and Revisions table and later re introduced them