Hi there,
I was asked to setup a MediaWiki but there are some strange (though obvious
in their case) requests that have been made which I'm not sure what the best
solution for integration is. Here they are briefly:
- They have a list of authors and animators and would like to sort them
in a category by last name first. All the articles currently created begin
with first and last. I realised that there is a transclusion option called
{{DEFAULTSORT:}} which lets you define its sort value. The problem is, I'm
not sure how to invert and display the name on the category page with the
inverse.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category doesn't tell me
much other than about the default sort value.
- The Wiki is going to be based on a massive bibliographical system. I've
searched high and low for good biblio extensions, but they pretty much do
not do what we want. What I've decided to do is have the bibliography
entries listed on each Article under a Bibliography header. I am writing an
extension which finds all pages with a similar header and parses all the
bibliographical entries, which are listed in MLA format. I'm wondering if
there is a much better way of doing this, because then I have to consolidate
duplicate entries by using a lot of regex (ack).
That's about it for now, there are other minor things, but before I bother
the mailing list I'm going to do my research and figure them out with the
help files. For now these are the only things I can't seem to solve on my
own.
Regards,
David