Daniel Mayer wrote:
LDan wrote:
I'm not the programmer, but
should it really be a link to a
regular wiki page? I think it
would be more appropriate
if it linked to something like
[[Special:Next]] or {{NEXTPAGE}}.
It would also be convienient for
that to appear at the bottom of
the screen automatically, but that
would take some coding.
I really, really like this idea; that way a particular module (wiki textbook
page) could be used by several different textbooks. The software would keep
track of the textbook (and module) the reader is reading from so that "Next
page" always keeps the reader in the same textbook even when many of the
modules of that textbook are shared. A possible way for the software to know
the order of pages is to simply scan the table of contents of whatever
textbook the reader is reading from.
OK, practical question: How does the software on a given page *know*
what page is next? It doesn't until we tell it. The best place is within
the page/article/module, don't you think?
The alternative would be to make an index page with links, and then have
*every* page scan *every* index (well, the ones with links to that page)
for "Am I in here", parse the index, and determine the next page.
Both would be possible, the first one easy to implement (just a link;-).
The second one would be based on indices (tables of contents). To stay
in the same "book", we'd have to carry the current TOC with us on every
view. Or, we show all possible links, like "Next page in Biology", "Next
page in Chemistry", etc.
Magnus