On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Bawolff Bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: >>Message: 1 >>Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:02:53 +0800 >>From: Liangent <[email protected]> >>To: "A list for announcements and discussion related to the Wikimedia >> Labs project." <[email protected]>, Wikimedia >> developers >> <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] [Labs-l] New project request >>Message-ID: >> <caj23o9ijb2trfw6gk+xtavzqwhfost0m4ee2ud4a5xcmdxv...@mail.gmail.com> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > [..] >>What do you think is a better approach to implement this? In 1.16 >>version I had to create another DB table but in modern MediaWiki, >>categories have better sorting support so another choice (which seems >>more natural) is to patch MediaWiki and change $wgCategoryCollation to >>an array to support multiple collation at the same time. Maybe another >>choice is to reuse the existing categorylinks table in an extension >>but this requires MediaWiki to have enough hooks. > > Hmm interesting. I could definitely see how it could feel "natural" > that this be in core. I could also see fairly good arguments for it > being an extension. Either way I think it should (ideally) > integrate with the categorylinks table. As it stands though, the > unique index on (cl_from,cl_to) would probably prevent that [change to > a unique index on cl_from,cl_to,cl_collation?]. Otherwise I don't see > any major hurdles. If going the extension route, hooks can always be > added if there are not enough. Some maintenance scripts would have to > be changed, and some changes to the Collation class would have to be > made, but I don't think they would be super-complicated changes by any > means. > > On a related note, there's also a bug that wants sort collations to be > specified per category (but still only 1 collation to a category) - > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28397 > > -bawolff
This is my quick work and I'll push it for review after Git migration. Comments are welcome. -Liangent
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