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"Can we put completed trip reports into the Static trips section. Otherwise they'll never actually get completed. Also the Static trips section is quite cool given the 'sorting' mechanism that Theo put in..." -- annon
- I agree we should add trip reports to the database so you can search for them in the static trips page. I have been doing this ... have now added Wales November 2005, and will add Dart December 2005 when it gets finished. I cant be bothered moving the report into html in the static trips pages - better to keep it on the wiki. I might one day convert the php for the trips database into an extension for the wiki so everything happens here.
- I've rearranged things on Main Page, so we now have in progress trip reports and completed trip reports (which just duplicated static trips page for the trip reports in wiki format). I've also moved this discussion into the Talk: namespace, which is intended for this sort of thing. - Ralph 12:03, 12 Dec 2005 (GMT)
- Interestingly that sorting mechanism is getting it wrong at the moment, with the order of the two trips which happened in the same month. Generally it looks OK at the moment, but I'm trying to dream up a better way of organising these things. -- Harry Wood 11:23, 10 Mar 2006 (GMT)
- So what we need is an extension called datetag to be placed in every completed trip report, which contains the date the trip happened. The extension code checks the trips DB and adds or updates it if necessary. The only problem is, how to stop malicious use of the tag elsewhere, which could screw up the static trips page. Maybe a protected page that has to contain the page title before it can be added to the DB? Seems a bit longwinded. Hmm.
- Also if we get the security issue sorted, this tag could be used to tell whether a trip has happened, and to do the prev/next links. -- Ralph 12:02, 10 Mar 2006 (GMT)
- Yes. A tag system could possibly also be used to tag news entries with a date-time, so that News Archive is sortable/searchable by time. We could modify the category display code, so that Category:Trip Reports lists in order of time-tag somehow, that'd be almost what we're after. All a bit tricky though. It's the kind of thing where you need your own offline MediaWiki installation to really play around with it properly.
- Anyway using this 'Talk' page is revealing another problem with the display of the updates -- Harry Wood 12:24, 10 Mar 2006 (GMT)
- Re: displaying updates in different namespaces - i need to know where to get an array of namespace names that correspond to the numbers in the DB.
- Re: offline install - i have one, but its of a different version of mediawiki. I guess i should try and copy across this install as it is, and the DB tables, and see if that works. I have slightly different versions of php and mysql, and of course its WAMP not LAMP, dont know if these will affect it.
- Ralph 14:24, 10 Mar 2006 (GMT)
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This is very confusing to somebody new coming to the site, and being confronted with a "this page has now moved" etc. Is there a good reason why there can't just be a redirect from this page to Home? --Andy 11:36, 13 Oct 2007 (BST)
- Yeah I've fixed that now. Not sure why I didn't do this way in the first place. -- Harry Wood 18:41, 13 Oct 2007 (BST)
