On 22/01/07, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
I once posted the idea (which, of course, was ignored;-) to store the names and values of variables passed to templates from articles in a SQL table. If you write {{xyz|a=1|b=2}} in article BLA and save, it
I had something along the same lines checked into an experimental branch; the user would insert metadata tags, and these would be dealt with in a similar manner to link updates:
[[Metadata:People|birth=1980]] etc.
It works on a "subject", "name" and "value" triplet concept - subjects group similar pieces of data, the name and value are self-evident. This was adapted from an idea Zocky had on IRC, which I hastily implemented.
It's in the repo, but incomplete - likely missing the upgraders and table definitions, and there's no interface for directly manipulating data outside of pages, nor any way of querying it at present.
Rob Church