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The basic idea is that we would designate a set of Categories for use in the store "topics" pages. The categories to be used would probably be designated by some sort of prefix on the category name, like 'vtopic'... so a topic which would be displayed as "Stuff and Things" would have the page name "Category:vtopic:Stuff and Things".
 
The basic idea is that we would designate a set of Categories for use in the store "topics" pages. The categories to be used would probably be designated by some sort of prefix on the category name, like 'vtopic'... so a topic which would be displayed as "Stuff and Things" would have the page name "Category:vtopic:Stuff and Things".
  
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Probably going to abandon the numeric topics, and have aliases. Old-style number-topics will be redirected to new-style names. Aliases and alternate spellings will be redirected the same way.
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Probably going to abandon the numeric topics, and have aliases. Old-style number-topics will be redirected to new-style names. Aliases, alternate spellings, and name-changes will be redirected the same way.
  
 
So, for example: [[vbznet:topics/1367/|topics/1367/]] (subject -> dates):
 
So, for example: [[vbznet:topics/1367/|topics/1367/]] (subject -> dates):
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* looks up a page called Category:vtopic:1367
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* looks up a page called [[Vtopic:1367]]
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* that page contains "#redirect <nowiki>[[Category:vtopic:dates]]</nowiki>"
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* that page contains "#redirect <nowiki>[[vtopic:dates]]</nowiki>"
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* <nowiki>[[Category:vtopic:dates]]</nowiki> contains:
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* [[vtopic:dates]] contains:
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** <nowiki>[[Category:vtopics]]</nowiki>
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** [[:Category:vtopics]] (for ease of maintenance, and perhaps for generating master index)
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** Delimiter to indicate beginning of vbzcart data
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** Descriptive text for web page
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** List of catalog numbers
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** Eventually, it may contain these items as well:
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** Long-version title ("items with a date")
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*** Delimiter to indicate beginning of vbzcart data (or perhaps each item will have a delimiter?)
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** For utility topics:
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*** <s>List of catalog numbers</s> Topic assignment will probably go in vtitles: pages
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*** Descriptive text for web page
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*** Long-version title (e.g. "items with a date") for displaying in lists of topics... or maybe the title should be the longer version, but then we might need a short version for displaying in trees
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** For folder topics:
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*** For folder topics:
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*** optional flag: display thumbnails of other items in topic
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**** optional flag: display thumbnails of other items in topic
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*** optional flag: display subtopic items within this topic (recurse only as long as this flag is set in subtopics)
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**** optional flag: display subtopic items within this topic (recurse only as long as this flag is set in subtopics)
  
 
==Tables==
 
==Tables==
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Process: find title in '''page.page_title''', get '''page.page_latest'''. Look that up in '''revision.rev_id''', get '''revision.rev_text_id'''. Look that up in '''text.old_id''', and get '''text.old_text''', which is the raw (unparsed) contents of the page.
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Relevant bits of existing MediaWiki tables:
 
Relevant bits of existing MediaWiki tables:
  
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|-
 
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| '''pl_title''' || string || name of target page?
 
| '''pl_title''' || string || name of target page?
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|}
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===revision===
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{|
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|-
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| '''rev_id''' || int || local key
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|-
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| '''rev_page''' || int || foreign key from ['''page''']
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|-
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| '''rev_text_id''' || int || foreign key to ['''text''']
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|}
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===text===
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Contains the (unparsed) page contents for all revisions
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{|
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|-
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| '''old_id''' || int || local key
 
|}
 
|}

Latest revision as of 11:17, 4 August 2007

Notes

Some preliminary design notes on using MediaWiki Categories to manage the store topic links.

The basic idea is that we would designate a set of Categories for use in the store "topics" pages. The categories to be used would probably be designated by some sort of prefix on the category name, like 'vtopic'... so a topic which would be displayed as "Stuff and Things" would have the page name "Category:vtopic:Stuff and Things".

Probably going to abandon the numeric topics, and have aliases. Old-style number-topics will be redirected to new-style names. Aliases, alternate spellings, and name-changes will be redirected the same way.

So, for example: topics/1367/ (subject -> dates):

  • looks up a page called Vtopic:1367
  • that page contains "#redirect [[vtopic:dates]]"
  • vtopic:dates contains:
    • Category:vtopics (for ease of maintenance, and perhaps for generating master index)
    • Descriptive text for web page
    • Eventually, it may contain these items as well:
      • Delimiter to indicate beginning of vbzcart data (or perhaps each item will have a delimiter?)
      • List of catalog numbers Topic assignment will probably go in vtitles: pages
      • Long-version title (e.g. "items with a date") for displaying in lists of topics... or maybe the title should be the longer version, but then we might need a short version for displaying in trees
      • For folder topics:
        • optional flag: display thumbnails of other items in topic
        • optional flag: display subtopic items within this topic (recurse only as long as this flag is set in subtopics)

Tables

Process: find title in page.page_title, get page.page_latest. Look that up in revision.rev_id, get revision.rev_text_id. Look that up in text.old_id, and get text.old_text, which is the raw (unparsed) contents of the page.

Relevant bits of existing MediaWiki tables:

page

page_id Autonumber
page_namespace int 14 = categories
page_title str name of page, not including namespace prefix
page_restrictions flags
page_counter int possibly number of edits?
page_is_redirect flag includes #redirect
page_is_new flag
page_random float used for "Random page"
page_touched date/time when page last saved?
page_latest
page_len

pagelinks

pl_from int
pl_namespace int index to hard-coded namespaces array
pl_title string name of target page?

revision

rev_id int local key
rev_page int foreign key from [page]
rev_text_id int foreign key to [text]

text

Contains the (unparsed) page contents for all revisions

old_id int local key
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