On 3/7/07, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
If it can be assumed that by clicking on the link generated by [[this is some pretty link text]] in page A, we also want to change links in any other page pointing to that one, then you *can* quite easily find out where it's being linked from, using the link tables...with the caveat that there will also be link table entries on pages where links have come from a template.
That's a good point - and a strong assumption. John, would you want to change the text of _all the links_ that link to a given page, or just one a time? I may have misunderstood the problem statement.
On 3/7/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe creating a redirect on this page is a valid solution ?
A solution to which part?
A solution for John Moorhouse, which has the problem. I'm not sure of having understood the problem.
Sorry about that. I'll clarify. There are two major problem segments (that I know of) in implementing a solution to John's request: 1) Determining which page is to receive the edits (assuming you hook the AlternateEdit event or similar) 2) Determining where in the wikitext to make the change.
I didn't understand which one of these the Redirection was meant to address. If we go with the assumption that the user wants to update all links everywhere, then a redirection would work for problem #1 - if not, then I'm not so sure.
But you pages will grow, and which do you choose to show?
Ah, but that's where the Ajaxy autocomplete textbox comes in :) Just start typing and it suggests what you might want by wildcard querying the title table.
-- Jim
On 3/7/07, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Jim Wilson wrote:
Maybe creating a redirect on this page is a valid solution ?
A solution to which part?
A solution for John Moorhouse, which has the problem. I'm not sure of having understood the problem.
John Moorhouse wrote:
I'm with you here Jim I think this is most elegant solution, to main idea behind this my query which is to provide a way that editors can select the page title they are linking to rather than having to remember it and type it in (there is an extension that does this for categories when it lists all the categories at the bottom of the page and you can just select one or more from there.)
mmm... Writing [[ or {{ and having a dropbox with titles appear could be nice. But you pages will grow, and which do you choose to show?
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