Check
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruker:Stigmj/Nextpage-preview for a
*very* quick hack just to show what I mean with "get a summary of the next
articles at the bottom of current article (to simulate a book)". Mind you,
this is not meant as anything more than show what I am thinking. If it's not
clear, do tell...
Regarding [[WP:PERF]].. sure, but when I make lists like
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_over_verdens_stater_etter_befolkningsstø…
suddenly have to think about the user experience... ;)
/Stig
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com<Simetrical%2Bwikilist@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Stig Meireles Johansen <stigmj(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> > Would it be possible to add
some kind of feature or extension which
> enables
> > users to either;
> > - get a list of the next/previous articles alphabetically (a short index)
> in
> > a separate box/window, or
>
> That shouldn't be hard to do at all.
>
> > - get a summary of the next articles at the bottom of current article (to
> > simulate a book)
>
> Not clear what this means.
>
> > There has been some suggestions to add a transcluded
> > Special:Prefixindex/{{PAGENAME}} to the stub-templates, but I have warned
> > them off with a possible hit in uncacheable pages..
>
> It would be cached perfectly fine. It just wouldn't update when new
> pages are created, until the cache expires or is purged. (Have you
> read [[WP:PERF]]?)
>
> > Adding some
> > AJAX-functionality would also need some kind of uncacheable special-page
> > output.
>
> AJAX isn't relevant at all here.
>
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