From: Markus <ma...@ai...> - 2007-10-09 12:27:42
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On Freitag, 5. Oktober 2007, Rune Stilling wrote: > Hi > > I miss the opportunity to show more semantic content in the factbox. For > example it would be extremely usefull if the factbox showed ALL relations > (properties) that a concept (page) was registered in. After all this is a > semantic wiki which is all about structure. > > Se my previous post on this: > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=3D42DD9000-B155-= 4276 >-B496-FECF10F3C68E%40rdfined.dk&forum_name=3Dsemediawiki-user I see your point, but S made some valid points in the earlier discussion. M= y=20 preferred solution would be to add a hook that allows you to extend/overwri= te=20 the Factbox, so that backlinks can be displayed. But the following must be= =20 kept in mind (I repeat some earlier arguments here): * Finding all backlinks is slow. Whatlinkshere has been disabled a couple o= f=20 times on Wikipedia for that reason. Doing it on all pages is quite=20 challenging. * The solution would be to make users click on something to see the backlin= ks,=20 instead of displaying them by default. But that is what we already do (clic= k=20 on the page name in the Factbox title). * Factboxes are cached, and we do not know how to change this without=20 modifying MediaWiki's caching mechanisms or skins or both (see my reply to= =20 the user-pref idea). So the backlinks will not necessarily be up-to-date wi= th=20 the current content of a wiki. Anyway, with a nice hook it would still be possible to implement the featur= e=20 you desire. On small wikis, one could turn off caching and dsregard the=20 performance issues. Could indeed be nice. Cheers, Markus =2D-=20 Markus Kr=F6tzsch Institut AIFB, Univers=E4t Karlsruhe (TH), 76128 Karlsruhe phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 fax +49 (0)721 608 5998 ma...@ai... www http://korrekt.org |