Disorderly Enormous Resources

[Matthew Thomas]

On 20 Sep, 2005, at 3:58 AM, ychen wrote:
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>> On 17 Sep, 2005, at 5:08 AM, ychen wrote:
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>>> Ubuntu is great, but the resources looks like chaos, forums/mailing  
>>> lists/wiki/IRC/newsgroups. Can we have something which can  
>>> consolidate all of these resources?
> ...
> What I mean is: can we consolidate all of this information in one  
> database? The wiki uses MySQL?

MoinMoin doesn't use a database.  
<http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinFeatures#head 
-9bc158b654bb01d937918bac3622973a9d93b4e6>

> I don't know what the forum is based on.

It says at the bottom: "Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.0.7". vBulletin  
uses MySQL <http://www.vbulletin.com/>.

> Newsgroup's data can be transfer to a database?

Which newsgroups are you referring to? Do you mean the ones hosted by  
Gmane <http://gmane.org/find.php?list=ubuntu>? They're just mirrors of  
the mailing lists.

> and mailing list?

<http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/> As far as I can tell,  
Mailman doesn't use an external database either.

> If we can build all of these resources on one database, we can share  
> the information from different resources when we get in any of input  
> systems. --That's only an idea. May be we need it.
> ...

That's a bit vague. What do you mean by "share the information"?

Do you mean for searching, perhaps? If ubuntuforums.org was  
forums.ubuntu.com, an ordinary Web search confined to the ubuntu.com  
domain would search the official site, the wiki, the forums, and the  
mailing lists all in one go (though it would be limited to the pages  
that the search engine had indexed so far). ubuntu.com's search  
function is pretty awful, so if the Ubuntu Below Zero BoF I proposed  
about the Ubuntu Web site gets approved, I'll certainly propose a  
community-wide search function as well as other forms of integration.

-- 
Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/