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Wikipedia was always a PHP software and just running on HHVM for the performance gain, not for the Hack language. The underlying MediaWiki software is used outs
by beberlei 8y ago
Wikipedia was always a PHP software and just running on HHVM for the performance gain, not for the Hack language. The underlying MediaWiki software is used outside of Wikipedia a lot, always on the PHP not HHVM stack. I expect its only a project for their operations team and should be managable.
- piotrkubisa 8y agoCould you tell more about MediaWiki use-cases outside Wikipedia? I know there is a lot of open-source projects which has MediaWiki installed for documentation (i.e. Arch Linux). Are there any usage in "internal documentation" software (like alternative to Confluence)? Why they have chosen the MediaWiki not other software which can be easily self-hosted / deployed on a premise?
- beberlei 8y agoI dont know much about that, but in a previous job 6 years ago we saw mediawiki in quite a few non technical companies used as internal doc system
- codewiz 8y agoMediaWiki is indeed very easy to self-host. I've been running several instances for the FSF and Sugar Labs. From the sysadmin perspective, it's a dream app to deploy: just unpack (or git clone) the latest release in a directory, point Apache (or Nginx) at it, and continue in the guided setup process (which involves creating a database, typically MySQL). Updates are also painless: there's a php maintenance script which updates the schema. I've kept MW instances for ~10 years without running into any problems. Things get a little more interesting if your add a ton of extensions, or badly maintained ones. I wish I could say the same of Django and Rails apps! <trollface>