>Thinking about how a wiki works shows that keeping tip numbers >is doomed. First, there is no auto-increment id, and as you >point out, there is no reasonable way to automate fixes.
Is there any equivalent to javascript's document.lastModified? Can create a "serial number" based on the date of submission, then rearrange by fields to a sortable ID, eg 2007.05.15.23.53 for a tip created yesterday at 23:53. Don't need dots, or hyphens, or anything, as 2007051523353 would be fine, too. The odds of having 2 tips be submitted in the same minute would be remote.
