On 2004.05.14 20:31, Brion Vibber - brion@pobox.com wrote:
I've checked in some preliminary code for the categorylinks table, including support for arbitrary sort key specification.
Hello,
I recently became very interested in the category topic, and I am very glad to find that this work is going on.
It seems clear that categories are necessary, but may not be sufficient in themselves.
One useful idea seems to be roadmaps. It seems that one may want to structure the order of contents in a category in order to tell a story that spans multiple articles.
I started a log of my thinking and exploration related to this topic at wikipedia User:AJim/extensions.
I looked at the v 1.18 tables.sql categorylinks table, and I think the cl_sortkey index is right on track to support the kind of functionality I was looking for.
I am pretty new to this stuff. Will the changes that Brion just made appear on the test wiki soon? If so, how will I know?
Thanks,
Jim Laurino