On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Vipul Naik <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm interesting in doing the following: for every listing of articles
> in a category, give the user the option to view the list sorted
> according to criteria other than the standard sort key. e.g., the user
> should be able to view all pages of a category in order of page
> length, number of page revisions, number of inward links to the page,
> number of page views, etc.
>
> From what I gather, this will need a separate extension. Does an
> extension of this sort already exist? If not, how hard would it be to
> write such an extension? I'm looking only for something that works in
> principle and is effective on small wikis (upto 20,000 pages or so,
> with a few thousand page views per day), not necessarily something
> that is efficient on a very huge wiki. So, I am okay with querying
> multiple tables.
>
> I've figured out the syntax for the SQL part of the query (in terms of
> how to do joins of the various tables to get the required list) but
> I'm not sure how this should be pieced together to provide the
> display. I'd like any pointers that people have about writing such an
> extension.

Perhaps DPL does what you want?

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