[Mediawiki-l] Storing or Linking Documents

[Dave Sigafoos]

Rob,

Thanks for all your hard work on this.

I took a look at the svn and was surprised at how *easy* it all looked.
This tells me that there is a pretty good structure under it all for the
MW engine.

Are there any documents other than found searching MW that describe the
architecture of MW?

Thanks again.  I look forward to being able to upload documents and not
hear complaints <G>

DSig
David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation

 


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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 2:14
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Storing or Linking Documents

On 10/04/07, Tels <nospam-abuse at bloodgate.com> wrote:
> Well, or write an extension that implements his idea, e.g.:
>
>         * upon upload, run the document through an index-generator
(per file type)
>         * add that index-text to some searchable index, or store it in
the mysql

I've thrown some very experimental initial work on such an extension
into Subversion; trunk/extensions/FileSearch. It introduces a
framework for defining "Extractors", which are capable of extracting
indexable content from uploaded files, and adds this into the search
index for the image page itself when a file is uploaded.

Searching seems to work (the reference implementation provided is for
plain text file uploads, which are obviously straightforward), but
result display leaves a lot to be desired. I anticipate rewriting the
whole thing to provide cleaner, better-looking integration into
MediaWiki at some point soonish.


Rob Church