[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia Yearbook Software

[Larry Sanger]

In three sentences, what is this software supposed to do?

Larry

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Simon Kissane wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have written some software for a Wikipedia Yearbook.
> With current Wikipedia software (both UseMod and
> Magnus' PHP Wiki) the format of the yearbook pages
> must be kept by hand, and if you make a entry under a
> year page you must copy it by hand to a historical
> anniversaries page. For example, if "X died October 1
> 1744", if you want it to appear under both [[October
> 1]] and [[1744]], you must enter it twice, once under
> each page.
>
> With my yearbook software, it automatically generates
> navigation elements on pages, and you need only enter
> an entry once for it to appear under both year and
> month-day pages.
>
> If you want to look at it, it is at
> http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/yearbook/yearbook.phtml
> At present it is very alpha. Some stuff broke when
> porting it from my home machine to the sourceforge
> server (different PHP version broke my use of regular
> expressions), which I haven't been able to fix yet. It
> has no support yet for keeping a history of revisions,
> recent changes or anything like that. If anyone wants
> to look at the code, its in the Sourceforge CVS
> repository for Wikipedia.
>
> Once I iron some more bugs out and add some more
> necessary features, I plan to integrate it with
> Magnus' PHP wiki code, so it will live under a "yb:"
> namespace. (I'll separate it out somehow so you can
> install the PHP wiki without it if you want.)
>
> Anyway, I'd welcome any comments/criticisms on the
> idea in general and my implementation of it.
>
> Simon J Kissane
>
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