On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Stig Meireles Johansen <stigmj(a)gmail.com> wrote: That shouldn't be hard to do at all. Not clear what this means. 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]]?) AJAX isn't relevant at all here.

The extension "Back and Forth"[1] written by the excellent but unfortunately disappeared Rob Church, does the following: 'Adds "Next" and "Previous" alphabetic paging links to the top of pages'. A screenshot can be found at [1]. It has already been localised in the following 74 localisations: af, ang, ar, as, ast, avk, bcl, be-tarask, bg, bn, br, cs, da, de, dsb, el, eo, ext, fi, fr, frp, gag, gl, hi, hr, hsb, hu, hy, ia, io, is, it, ja, jv, kaa, km, kn, ksh, lb, lt, ml, mr, nah, nds, nl, nn, no, nso, oc, pl, pms, ps, pt, ru, sah, scn, sk, sr-ec, srn, stq, su, sv, ta, te, tg-cyrl, th, tr, uk, vec, vi, vo, yue, zh-hans, zh-hant There is also "Page After And Before"[2] by Jean-Lou Dupont, but I have no idea how that behaves. I usually only install extensions from the MediaWiki source code repository. Requesting new extensions to be installed on the Wikimedia farm currently has a backlog of about 3-6 months. There are about 10 extensions on the list[3]. Since 19 May no extensions in the queue have been processed. Cheers! Siebrand [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Back-and-Forth [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageAfterAndBefore [3] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Review_queue#Extensions -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: wikitech-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Stig Meireles Johansen Verzonden: woensdag 6 augustus 2008 14:18 Aan: Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Onderwerp: [Wikitech-l] Next/previous articles I'm posting this question here as it's kind of specific to wikipedia/media as well as it's a possible mediawiki-feature-request. 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 - get a summary of the next articles at the bottom of current article (to simulate a book) 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.. Adding some AJAX-functionality would also need some kind of uncacheable special-page output. I guess there's always a way to do a quick hack of this, but doing it in a way that's cacheable and meaningful is another problem. Stigmj@nowiki