Hi,
I'm interesting in doing the following: for every listing of articles
in a category, give the user the option to view the list sorted
according to criteria other than the standard sort key. e.g., the user
should be able to view all pages of a category in order of page
length, number of page revisions, number of inward links to the page,
number of page views, etc.
>From what I gather, this will need a separate extension. Does an
extension of this sort already exist? If not, how hard would it be to
write such an extension? I'm looking only for something that works in
principle and is effective on small wikis (upto 20,000 pages or so,
with a few thousand page views per day), not necessarily something
that is efficient on a very huge wiki. So, I am okay with querying
multiple tables.
I've figured out the syntax for the SQL part of the query (in terms of
how to do joins of the various tables to get the required list) but
I'm not sure how this should be pieced together to provide the
display. I'd like any pointers that people have about writing such an
extension.
Thanks,
Vipul