Alex Brollo wrote: > It's strange (but I guess that there's a sound reason) that plain wikilinks > point to a variable field of wiki records (the name of the page) while many > troubles would be solved, if they could point to the invariable field of > such records: the id. The obviuos restult is, that all links are broken (and > need fixing) as soon as a page is "moved" (t.i. renamed). > > My question is: which is the sound reason for this strange thing? There's > some idea about fixing this? > > Alex
That's how it used to be before 1.5 There was a links table [1] and a brokenlinks table [2]. Then if a page was created/deleted/renamed all entries referring to it (which could be large) would need to be migrated/updated. Using the pagelinks table avoids all these problems (at the cost of some more space needed for existing links). Also see [3] and [4]. 1- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Links_table 2- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Brokenlinks_table 3- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_layout 4- http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-May/017434.html _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
