[Developers] WEX and Text Search

Colin Evans colin at metaweb.com
Thu Jun 5 16:08:50 UTC 2008


Hi Winton,
Our internal WEX dump has a clean, text-only rendering of each article 
that is perfect for full-text indexing.  I'll have it added to he next 
WEX dump.  It was probably omitted because of concerns about size.

-Colin


Winton Davies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for the quickest way to create a full text inverted index
> search of Wikipedia. I've not been hearing good things about MySQL
> Text search, and don't see a really easy way to load the Page dumps.
>
> So I thought about using WEX - does anyone have any experience in
> using Full Text search with the WEX load?
>
> Cheers,
>     Winton
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