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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In three sentences, what is this software supposed to do?
Larry
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Simon Kissane wrote:
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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--- Larry Sanger lsanger@nupedia.com wrote:
In three sentences, what is this software supposed to do?
Larry
Puts navigation elements on Year in Review pages automatically -- e.g. automatically links to next five and previous five years. Allow you to add someone's date of birth to a year page (e.g. [[1992]]), and it automatically appears on the anniversary of their birth as well (e.g. [[January 15]]).
Unfortunately I know see it doesn't really work on Sourceforge, although it worked fine at home (they have newer software than I do). I was probably a little too premature announcing it here. Oh well...
Simon.
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This sounds like it could be very useful, particularly if it has some features that will make it easier to use than the current (hand-made) system. I also guess that some more of us (including myself) should look more carefully at what format the year and date pages are following. I don't know how many of those pages we've made, but it must be a lot by now...
Larry
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Kissane" sj_kissane@yahoo.com To: wikipedia-l@nupedia.com Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 5:21 AM Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia Yearbook Software
--- Larry Sanger lsanger@nupedia.com wrote:
In three sentences, what is this software supposed to do?
Larry
Puts navigation elements on Year in Review pages automatically -- e.g. automatically links to next five and previous five years. Allow you to add someone's date of birth to a year page (e.g. [[1992]]), and it automatically appears on the anniversary of their birth as well (e.g. [[January 15]]).
Unfortunately I know see it doesn't really work on Sourceforge, although it worked fine at home (they have newer software than I do). I was probably a little too premature announcing it here. Oh well...
Simon.
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On Tuesday 20 November 2001 07:49, you wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have written some software for a Wikipedia Yearbook.
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.
Simon, that sounds like a great idea. Perhaps you'd want to watch RecentChanges for the most prolific contrinutors to both [[Historical Anniversaries]] and [[Year in review]] pages and negotiate a standard look 'n feel with them.
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