MediaWiki has a database table for external links - this table contains all of the externally referenced items for each page (most recent revision only).
It appears that that these are updated only when a page is modified. However, since SMW supports queries (eg, ask), it would seem that if the ask result returned an external link, that it would be preferable to update the various links tables appropriately. I realize that at *best* this could be done when the page is rendered - that is, if a user modifies page A, and the ask query on page B changes as a result, links would not be updated until B was rendered (at the earliest). As it stands, links do not update until B is *saved*. It appears that the MW maintenance script "refreshLinks.php" doesn't parse tags, so it only sees the SMW ask markup, not the result set [otherwise this could be run periodically to refresh the link data]. I can certainly understand why MW wouldn't want to do this normally, since dynamic content isn't really the purpose of a wiki - but it is something that SMW effectively provides. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
