Of course - I am actually modeling this feature on Semantic MW. It's just that I doubt WMF will enable SMW on the cluster any time soon :)
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Jamie Thingelstad <ja...@thingelstad.com>wrote: > You could do something exactly like this very, very easily using Semantic > MediaWiki and Concepts. > Jamie Thingelstad > ja...@thingelstad.com > mobile: 612-810-3699 > find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn > > On Jan 24, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
