Import wikipedia db dump into wordpress?

Import wikipedia db dump into wordpress? I can't be the first one who has thought to do this? I want my own wikipedia but want it running on wordpress blog. Anyone ever do this? There has to be a way to import it into wordpress right?

 

you need to do alot of work for that it's not easy alot of Database works is required... and plus you need to have dedicated server for that to run as it's big data...

 

I have a pretty hefty vps. There has to be a simpleish php code I can run that will modify the database. Still looking for info if anyone can help?

 

Can I just ask... why in all that is holy do you want to do this? Wikipedia is based on a wiki - which has its own syntax, and own logic - it's not as simple as just copying over articles into WP-posts. A Wiki is a wiki, and a blog is a blog, for a reason.

 

I rather not share my reasons. Its not important here why I want to do this. I just do. Someone must know how to tweek the database so wordpress will accept a wikipedia dump. How about exporting a wikipedia dump to .csv? Something has to work.

 

Do you have said database? The issue there is more the size of the damn thing.

Nigel

 

By all means, doing stupid stuff is any person's prerogative. My point still stands that you'll need to code your own parser for the data, since they're stored with wiki-formatted text - which means that there's a lot of fiddling involved getting internal links to work properly, CSS-styling, etc. Just so you know, this will be an immensly large project.

 

I think I found a much slower workaround that may be easier.. I found a plugin that imports ,slowly, wiki pages into wordpress. Im thinking of setting up a wiki on another domain or a subdomain I am not using importing the wiki dump datatbase into it and then running the importer to post the articles into the place I want them to be. What do you think?

 

That sounds like a pretty decent way to do it, at least if the importer works properly, and pulls all the info you want.