graham wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a relative newbie with mediawiki and before I rush into something > I'd appreciate some advice as to how practical this is. > > I want to use mediawiki to hold a catalogue of electronic resources > (journals etc) that a library has access to. One page per resource. The > end user would be able to search through categories of resource and each > page would give the user a description of the resource, explanation of > how to use it etc. So far, completely normal wiki. > > But I have additional data about each resource I would like to store in > each page (for example, configuration settings for a proxy server for > that particular resource). This data would not be visible to the > standard user, but would be entered by the same person entering the > visible text and would be visible to that person/group. The data would > be extracted by a bot at intervals to generate configuration files > directly or update an external database. Even better would be if the bot > could also populate the pages with some of this data. > > Is this straightforward to do with mediawiki? I had a quick look at the > API and it doesn't look like it's really geared to extracting > user-defined chunks of data, but I could well be wrong. I don't mind > doing some coding (and obviously will have to do some for the bot) but > don't have a huge amount of time to spend on development. A pre-existing > plugin that does what I want would be nice! > > Thanks for any advice > > Graham
You could have items at normal pages (or at File: namespace) and a different namespace for configuration. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
