On Jan 24, 2014 1:54 AM, "Yuri Astrakhan" <yastrak...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi, I am thinking of implementing a > > #CATQUERY <query> > > magic keyword for the category pages. > > When this keyword is present, the category page would execute a query > against the search backend instead of normal category behavior and show > result as if those pages were actually marked with this category. > > For example, this would allow Greek Philosophers category page to be > quickly redefined as > a cross-section of greeks & philosophers categories: > > #CATQUERY incategory:Greek incategory:Philosopher > > Obviously the community will be able to define much more elaborate queries, > including the ordering (will be supported by the new search backend) > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
I like the idea in principle, but think the syntax could use bikeshedding ;) If we use this as category pages, im a little worried that people could get confused and try to add [[category:Greek philosophers]] to a page, and expect it to work. We would need good error handling in that situation > including the ordering (will be supported by the new search backend) Cool. I didnt realize search would support this. That's a pretty big deal since people expect there categorirs alphabetized. Another cool project would be to expand intersection/Dyanamic Page List (Wikimedia) to be able to use search as a different backend (however, that extension would need quite a bit of refactoring to get there) -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
