Hi everyone,
I have written some software for a Wikipedia Yearbook. With current Wikipedia software (both UseMod and Magnus' PHP Wiki) the format of the yearbook pages must be kept by hand, and if you make a entry under a year page you must copy it by hand to a historical anniversaries page. For example, if "X died October 1 1744", if you want it to appear under both [[October 1]] and [[1744]], you must enter it twice, once under each page.
With my yearbook software, it automatically generates navigation elements on pages, and you need only enter an entry once for it to appear under both year and month-day pages.
If you want to look at it, it is at http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/yearbook/yearbook.phtml At present it is very alpha. Some stuff broke when porting it from my home machine to the sourceforge server (different PHP version broke my use of regular expressions), which I haven't been able to fix yet. It has no support yet for keeping a history of revisions, recent changes or anything like that. If anyone wants to look at the code, its in the Sourceforge CVS repository for Wikipedia.
Once I iron some more bugs out and add some more necessary features, I plan to integrate it with Magnus' PHP wiki code, so it will live under a "yb:" namespace. (I'll separate it out somehow so you can install the PHP wiki without it if you want.)
Anyway, I'd welcome any comments/criticisms on the idea in general and my implementation of it.
Simon J Kissane
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