Hi Zichen

On 27/02/2012 20:21, Frank Xu wrote:

I'm working on setting up a wikipage for my research lab and our tech support gave us the interface of mediawiki. Due to the university constrain rules, I cannot access the backend files such as configure php files etc. However, I have such a function that need to be implemented. There is a publication page which contains all the publications we had the lab. My boss asked me to make it:

1. edit once affect everywhere;

This is how wikis work !? Isn't it?

2. can be sort by time or authoer name or type (conference, journal, thesis.);

Here is the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Table#Sorting

3. can be colored by different publication type;

Seems feasible with CSS.

4. can be referenced in each person's wikipage but only with a subset of the

publication list (the paper appears in one's page only if he/she was the author of the paper. Thus, it creates synchronize challenge with goal 1.)

Is possible by playing using template (with a parameter indicating the filter) and the parser functions (hope this is installed on your Mediawiki instance) https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions

I know that we could create a mysql database and use php files to do that (exactly what we did before.) I know it is too much to ask, but I'm really dancing with the "handcuff" on since I cannot access the backend and only via the mediawiki interface. Are there any other ways to finish this task? Any suggestions are appreciated.

This Mailing-list is not focused on Mediawiki Online usage. mediawiki-l (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mailing_lists) might be a better choice.

Regards Emmanuel