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recent changes linked
Hi Wikitechers,

I've had this itch for a while, and I've finally scratched it: being
able to display the recent changes of all pages that are linked to
from a particular page. You can see the function I wrote at work
here:

http://www.projectmosaic.org/pwiki/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&action=recentChangesLinked

You could use this feature to get an overview of the activity in a
given section (say, "Mathematics") without having to load/unload the
entire section into your watch list. Alternately, you could use this
to build group or public watch lists, the wiki way.

Would you like this feature in the php script? Should I send someone
the diff?

-- Dan Keshet

PS: (Please to: or cc: me; I'm not on the list.)

PPS: Great job everybody who's worked on the script. Wikipedia's
looking really great. :)
Re: recent changes linked [ In reply to ]
From: "Dan Keshet" <dkesh@channel1.com>
>
> I've had this itch for a while, and I've finally scratched it: being
> able to display the recent changes of all pages that are linked to
> from a particular page.

I certainly like the idea, but Magnus is the boss. I hope you are using the
new linked table and not the local variable $linked_link, because the latter
is depreciated and I am trying very hard to make them obsolete.

-- Jan Hidders
Re: recent changes linked [ In reply to ]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Magnus Manske" <Magnus.Manske@epost.de>
To: "Jan Hidders" <hidders@uia.ua.ac.be>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 3:48 PM
Subject: RE: [Wikitech-l] recent changes linked


> I checked the online example, and it would be great to have such a thing
in
> the sidebar!
>
> Jan, as you are working on the link table, could you get the code and try
to
> integrate it, if you have time?

But of course. Send me the code and I'll adapt it and add it to the sidebar.

-- Jan Hidders
Re: recent changes linked [ In reply to ]
When I saw Dan's prototype for "Recent Changes of Linked Pages", I was
thinking: What if this could be a personal setting, that doesn't have
to be available for everybody (if they don't want it). And what if
each user (who is a programmer) could program their own website based
on the Wikipedia contents, or based on any Wiki site for that matter.
This could be done if a website, such as Dan's projectmosaic.org, only
contained the framework and made on-the-fly "web services" calls to
wikipedia.com for the contents of each page. Web services is a sort
of RPC (remote procedure calls) using XML over HTTP. One problem
might be that the suggested ads would have to be part of the contents
served by Wikipedia, or else Wikipedia would have to serve contents
without any exposure of ads. Perhaps this would be solved by only
allowing web services calls from logged-in users.

Has anybody tried a multi-level wiki based on web services? Is it a
good or bad idea?

If these general thoughts have too little to do with Wikipedia, where
should I rather post them?


--
Lars Aronsson
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