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

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