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Re: Wiki




On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Peter Mount wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Tom Droege wrote:
 
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> > It seems to me that we need a synonym function.  If we say GSC 00279 -
> > 00321 OR IBVS 5278 OR RA 11h57m51s DEC. 06h27m04s OR ...  we should get to
> > the same star page.  Is this possible?  How do we do it?
> 
> I'm not sure if it is possible, at least not in the generated index.
> 
> In a manually created index you could use a Forced Internal Link like:
> 
> 	[[Tass.Gsc00279X00321][IBVS 5278]]
> 
> But that would be complex and easy to screw up.
> 
> Anyone else got an idea?

inside the wiki you could have an index page.   

when you make a star page with the Jxxx.xxx or whatever notation is chosen
you also make a link entry in sorted order on the index page.  then
aliases would just be plain text names to the right of the link.  you
could search the index page with regular web tools.

the nice thing about wikis is that if the original author forgot to make
the index page, anyone could fix it up, and anyone could add aliases as
they are found.

a programatic approach is that we could ask that the aliases be on the
first line of a star's wiki page.    a cron job could periodically update
the index page automatically.  this has the advantage that the aliases
are kept with the star page.  extending this to the extreme, automatic
redirect pages could be generated so that alias url's like 
http://wiki.tass-survey.org/IBVS5278 
would get you to the star page.

-ron