[Mediawiki-l] Re: blog extension

[FxParlant]

That's a good news for you John :-)

I guess it didn't work on my localhost because I already made so many 
changes that my homemediawiki needs a good deal restoring ;-)

Nevertheless, I think my extension could be simplified for blogging...
Thanks Rowan for your expertise.

François


Rowan Collins wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:18:40 +0100, FxParlant <f-x.p at laposte.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I remembered why I just droped the idea of using namespaces in mediawiki
>>(although I really used it a lot in Dokuwiki): I think that mediawiki
>>just creates a "what links here" (links) table for the main namespace.
> 
> 
> That's not true. Any page linking to any other page will create an
> entry in the links table. In fact, the links table doesn't even
> *record* which namespace the page is in, it just stores a pair of page
> ids (cur_id). For an example of a whatlinkshere page demonstrating
> that, see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Foo
>  
> 
>>I thought I could simply change the mysql query of my extension, but it
>>seems that it's the same with the "category links" table: only pages in
>>the main namespace are taken into account.
> 
> 
> Again, not true. In fact, some people are really rather annoyed that
> category pages *don't* make any distinction between namespaces. In
> this table, the link *target* is stored as a string, and is by
> definition always in the Category namespace; but the link *source* can
> be any page in the wiki.
> 
> So there's no reason [that I can think of] why your extension won't
> work across namespaces. And no reason you couldn't add to your SQL
> query so that the namespace of the pages could be specified, or a
> default namespace used (by checking the value of cur_namespace).
>