User talk:Vladimir Panteleev

Subpages

Hi!

I'm looking at moving over the DIPs but I think we need subpages in order to do it properly http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Subpages It would be used to keep the DIP Archive and DIP Alternatives as on ProWiki. At least the WikiMeda help says that's a good use for subpages too. Seems without subpages we have to change the DIP process itself (See "Usage" in DIP1) which could get political?

Could we turn it on for the main namespace, or perhaps now is good time to actually create a DIP-namespace (Or "Dev"?) and have it turned on just there?

Regards --Kraybit (talk) 12:13, 24 November 2012 (CET)

Am I right that all this feature does is generate a link to the "parent" page (page with the title up to the last slash)?

For another wiki, we've simply used a template for that. It also has the advantage that a page can have multiple "parents", and does not clutter URLs. Example: http://worms2d.info/Software

I'm not against enabling the feature, just making sure this is what you want. Let me know if I should go ahead and enable it. --Vladimir Panteleev (talk) 16:26, 24 November 2012 (CET)

Ha, yeah, I think you're right. Man, I'm learning a lot : ) Sorry for bugging you. I say we just keep it as it is for now, we can still use "/" in names to express the intention of a subpage, and then later if the link to the parent page is needed, we can activate it then perhaps, through a template or whatever seems best. --Kraybit (talk) 16:34, 24 November 2012 (CET)

Multi-dimensional hierarchies

Here's a problem: It would be nice to have a page with all projects that are D-related, open source, proprietary, experimental, stable—everything! Then, it would also be very nice to be able to list a subset of those projects, only those that are "stable", "open source" and so on. Do you know of any way to achieve this without duplicating entries? --Kraybit (talk) 16:52, 24 November 2012 (CET)

So we're looking for a table or article list that allows dynamic filtering?

I think this could be achieved using a template which takes one parameter for each criteria. It would emit a table with one entry per row; however, each row is wrapped in a conditional which checks for the appropriate conditions.

Perhaps these extensions could be useful as well: 1 2 3 --Vladimir Panteleev (talk) 17:00, 24 November 2012 (CET)

Aaah, templates, ok, now I get it : )

Your idea sounds great! Hm, I must admit, I can't really tell if these extension would accomplish that though. My impression:

CategorySearch — With this every project must have a page (which is perhaps not bad?), so it seems excessive, yet!, for thinks like the Cookbook that seems to be great! We could then show lists of howto's/guides etc. by a query of categories, like all howtos in "Meta programming" and "Beginner". (Or? Is this just a search-widget, or can we embed queries in a page and get a table? At least then users could do a meaningful search.)

DynamicPageList — Again for projects every projects must have their own page — yet! — this could be great for showing a list of the "5 latest tutorials" or "5 latest projects" etc., so again this seems very useful!

TemplateTable — I can't quite grasp this one. While it creates tables, I don't see any possibility to filter by criteria?

It feels like perhaps we need to just give every project a page of their own so that we can put it in a category, and that way be able to show different lists, somehow. Again, I must admit I can't see clearly how all this would work. Perhaps some more research into this is a good idea?

--Kraybit (talk) 17:51, 24 November 2012 (CET)