Is there somewhere that design decisions for the new database schema are
being discussed? I asked about sub-wikis back in mid-Sept, but none of
the responses really match the feature I'm looking for, as far as I can
tell. I think it's worth architecting something into the new schema to
accommodate this feature, even if wikipedia only uses one main wiki.
Basically, what I'd like is a way to classify pages into the main wiki
and sub-wikis, and then be able to limit search results based on
sub-wiki, and maybe eventually limit access controls based on sub-wikis
(e.g. [[User:Foo]] is a sysop for sub-wiki 'Science', [[User:Bar]] is a
sysop for sub-wiki 'History', etc.)
I'm happy to do some of the coding toward this effort, but I'm new
enough to this wiki community that I don't know where these kinds of
issues are discussed.
thanks!
-Nick
Kate Turner wrote:
I'm about to commit a major change to the
'old' table in HEAD. There
should ideally be no problems, but it's quite possible it will end up
corrupting your database, deleting articles or their histories, or
doing other bad things. There will almost certainly be minor bugs.
If you have anything important in a 1.4 version database, you MUST
backup your database before updating or you WILL lose it!
You have been warned.
Kate.
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