[Mediawiki-l] Bot and "permanent links"

[Jan Steinman]

> From: fred <frederic at conrotte.be>
>
> I'm currently pushing my company to adopt mediawiki as our main  
> collaborative
> working tool.
> I'm looking for a way to automaticaly create an article containing  
> a list of
> permanent links pointing to specific versions of articles. It could  
> be a
> category but this category should be "frozen"; the category should  
> list the
> articles versions frozen at time T.
>
> In short, I'm trying to "tag" (as in cvs or subversion) a list of  
> articles.
>
> Is it feasible with mediawiki? Maybe using some Bots?

Some time ago, I floated an idea to do this using the edit summary  
field. So the bot could go through and do an empty edit on each  
desired page, and give them a common edit summary field. But then I  
got busy, and didn't do it.


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