I want my MediaWiki install to have two classes of pages. (In the users'
eyes - the wiki won't have to know the difference.)
I want some pages to be on topics, and others on sources (name of book,
video, etc.)
I want to have a topic page "FAA Licenses" like:
==Medical Certificates==
===3rd Class===
Required for student license, and before student solo flights.
{{{link/reference/whatever generally around here to Jeppesen Book#pg27-28}}}
And a source page "Jeppesen Book" like:
==pg27-28==
{{{link to FAA Licenses#3rd Class}}}
These source pages will track the source's (book or video) content. I
imagine a source page for a book to have page numbers, and for a video to
have start and stop times, or section numbers. (The book or video itself
won't be on the source pages.)
So, the source pages will really serve two purposes. First, it will be
fairly easy to see which parts of the sources have had notes taken and put
into the topic pages. (So non-linear note-taking of sources will be easy
-- skipping from source to source on topics, rather than digesting an
entire source at once.) Second, it will be easy from a topic page to see
where to go back to for a more in-depth review.
There's two issues I'm writing about.
(1) I want the workflow to be the user edits the topic page, putting in
links to source pages and sections. I want this one user-addition to
automatically make the source page link back to this spot. I want the
system to handle the two-way-linking, assuming the user won't be perfect.
(2) I want the user to be able to put links in the topic page to source
pages and sections that might not exist yet. I'd need those links to show
up as red, to indicate they need to be created. But, still, once created,
I want the system to handle the two-way-linking, even if there were
multiple red links to the same area. (I could see building up quite a few
red links, then having an unorganized "purge" of them by creating the
missing pages and sections, and don't want to have to search for all the
links to the new areas.) Ideally, I'd love for these source pages to be
auto-generated -- so pages and sections were made as links were made to
them, and automatically deleted (or at least the backlinks removed) as
links were removed to them.
I don't think the MediaWiki What links here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:What_links_here> functionality does
the job. I want this to work on a per-section rather than per-page basis.
And, I don't want the user to have to add to each section a "what links
here tag" -- I want it to be automatic.
How do I go about doing this? Is it do'able with existing MediaWiki
configuration with extensions? Do I need to create (or hire to be created)
a custom extension?