search.wikimedia.org

search.wikimedia.org holds a web service for running title prefix searches for Apple's Dictionary application in Mac OS X 10.5.

Hardware

• yongle

Software

• Apache+PHP+json extension
• docroot/search.wikimedia.org source code
  • This is a simple PHP script that sends requests to the OpenSearch API of the target wiki and returns HTML-formatted results in the microformat that Apple Dictionary expects.

Usage

• Production use began October 2007 with release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
• Switched to OpenSearch backend in January 2008 to resolve performance and updating issues

Notes

• Apple's client sends all queries as lowercase, so this requires a case-insensitive OpenSearch suggest backend. Currently this is provided using the TitleKey extension to MediaWiki.

How to recover in a hurry

1. Set up an Apache+PHP box serving search.wikimedia.org
   • PHP's json extension required
2. Install index.php in the document root.

External link

• https://search.wikimedia.org