[Mediawiki-l] Tagging sections with keywords and retrieve them

[Monahon, Peter B.]

> Earlier: "... I want to add keywords 
> (tag/annotate) to [an article] and retrieve 
> those ... on another page ... the problem 
> ... the result would be an article. I need 
> only a particular section of the article 
> as result ..."

Peter Blaise responds: I broke out each section to it's own sub page,
and that may help you get, in your search results, what was once only
the former "section", but because now it's on it's own page, it is a
discreet nodule of information that responds better to such searches and
links on it's own as a separate result.  But then, how to reassemble and
display the content of all these new subpages back together again on the
main article page above those sub pages so they look and read as you
originally intended?  

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SubPageList2

... with:

<subpages
deepness=1
mode=preview
/>

... in the content of article page above all those subpages (along with
any other content I want, such as automatic or my own construct of a
table of contents of the sub pages, and more).  What were previously
sections now have all the features and benefits of independent pages,
yet the extension, SubPageList2, permits me to display them as if they
were still sub sections, all on one page.  This gives me a pleasant
selectable mix of page, section, and subpage features and benefits from
which you may be able to design a solution to your challenge.

There's more.  This allows people to discuss/talk about what looks like
a section of a large page, but they get a separate, dedicated
discussion/talk page for their "section" because it's really a page on
it's own.  Otherwise, when we try to discuss/talk about a section on a
page, we get the discussion/talk page for the entire master page, not
exclusively for that sub section on it's own!  Now, each section has
it's own discussion/talk page- cool!  Note, I "protect" the article page
so people don't waste their time trying to edit an unassembled ghost.
When they click on what looks like a sub section, it brings them to a
dedicated sub page for that section, and then they can edit or
discuss/talk about only that "section". 

Let us know how you resolve your design challenge.  I really enjoy these
architecture discussions.  Sort of like opening a can of paint with a
screwdriver, in that it's not in the instruction manual for the
screwdriver.  That's the way we seem to use the Mediawiki tools, too -
very creatively, and far off the official, simplistic "instruction
sheet" that comes with each extension!

Thanks to Martin Schallnahs and Rob Church for SubPage2.