Articles are just stored as text blobs. The GeoRSS extension adds metadata, submitted along with the article on save, in a "special" format within the article, through post-commit hooks. A pre-render hook extracts the metadata, and adds that data within the html & javascript for user editing.
Anyway, think it would be very useful to have a very polished plugin for MediaWiki .. it's ubiquity makes for a big demand. A hack-athon at the upcoming Where Camp perhaps? ----- Original Message ---- From: Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 7:48:52 AM Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Announcing Wiki Widgets On 15 Apr 2007, at 15:05, Kake L Pugh wrote: [snip] > I don't know how MediaWiki stores its data, so I don't know how > difficult it would be, but it would be very neat if your widget could > do something like that too. Yeah. I have no idea how MediaWiki does it either but I can see I'm going to have to find out :) >> I assume that if I get that right I'll have some ideas about extra- >> wiki aggregation at the same time. > > We've been tackling this by means of RDF output, but I don't know > if anyone's > using our data in practice yet. I'll pop by and have a closer look at what you're doing, thanks. I can see I've opened a hornet's nest for myself here :) -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
