I've been poking around mediawiki for a couple months now. I am working on a project that has a lot of customization demands and am running into some quicksand. Any help or pointers would be appreciated. I came here because this all seemed to complicated for IRC...

1. Alternate Editor/New Editor/Editor Script/Editing Form I need to set up a more restrictive editor as a linkable option to the usual editor. By more restrictive, I mean you essentially build the article with text inputs and drop down menus.

I've found the showEditForm() function in EditPage.php and the FCKeditor extensions, but am at a loss which way would be best. Ideally I would just create the form, feed it to a script which recombined all the values, and sent it on into the regular editing/updating mechanism.

2. Text Queries/Query Content/Get Article Content from Database Part of this project is to maintain a flatfile mirror of the articles in one of the wiki namespaces. This includes writing out files when they are moved into the particular namespace. I'm finding the db calls to be confusing. I have the article id & title, what am I looking for to get the article text? This is being written as an extension.

~ grayside