On 16/08/07, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 16/08/07, Flip Mozart <flipmozart(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
Hi! I'm writing a custom tag that fetches
data from external sources and embedded in a page (view) "on the fly". My
question is: would the dynamic data retrieved in such a fashion be searchable using
MediaWiki's keyword search (or perhaps Semantic MediaWiki's Semantic Search)???
*In theory*, if you can insert the appropriate data into the search
index, then yes, it would be searchable. The main issue with this is
that if you're fetching data on the fly, and if this data is
constantly changing, then you're going to run into difficulties
keeping that index current without performing a (potentially
expensive) update on each page view.
I noticed that when a template is used to categorize a page, changing
the category in the template does not recategorize the page until the
page is next viewed. Does this mean that the category information in
the database is updated similarly (per page view), or is this
mechanism somehow smart, only updating the category information on the
first view?
A similar system for indexing the 'rendered content' of a page,
including text from templates, would be a nice feature.
Rob Church
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