Greetings,
I am using MediaWiki for gathering and structuring content for a research project and am trying to implement a customized version of the BibTex extension http://gsc2.cemif.univ-evry.fr/index.php/Mediawiki_extensions#Bibtex_extensi...
Basically the extension (called via a custom <citetex> tag) takes input from a template, processes the BibTex information found there and outputs a book/article reference. Some of that information (like author names) shall be processed as wikitext (e.g. to link to the author page inside the Wiki). It shall be possible for the <citetex> tag to occur multiple times on a page referencing different "source-templates".
Using the parser object passed to the extensions render function:
function renderCiteBook( $input, $argv, &$parser) { // do some processing of the input here -> $string $localOutput = $parser->parse($string, $parser->mTitle, $parser->mOptions, false); $output .= $string->getText(); }
results in all but the last <citetex> instance to be output as an UNIQ object.
Following the instructions on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_extensions_FAQ#How_do_I_render_wiki... (that is creating a new local parser object inside the render-function and using the parse() method of that instance) solved this problem and wikitags are now parsed correctly. What this approach does not accomplish, is creating the appropriate wiki-references (no exact idea how they are created and stored in the wiki-db) so "whatlinkshere" and "wanted pages" etc. don't work for content/links parsed in this way.
So: do you have an idea or suggestion on how to get the backlinks etc. references working also for wiki-links created by an extension?
Thanks alot for your help, Hinnerk
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