Site Maintenance

I’ll be performing some updates to the software which drives worldofsam on Saturday afternoon or evening. Don’t be surprised or worried if worldofsam is temporarily unavailable.

Some thoughts I’ve had:

1. A field of ‘More Info Required’ that can be listed in a similar way to ‘Missing in Action’ to show which entries are a bit light on content or where the author is unsure of the info?

2. A related people list like related products?

3. Can the related products do a less-fuzzy match so that it treats the freelinked text as whole rather that as space delimited so that ‘Andy Monk’ doesn’t match any other ‘Andy’s?

4. Removing anonymous comments or adding anonymous editing with registered users able too roll-back to pervious versions.

/braindump

Can we have a quick link to ‘Hardware’ as there is probably enough content to justify it?

Is it possible to add the type e.g. game/utility to the listing on the ‘Products’ list?

Reason being is that for items that are created just as ‘Software’ (the default) it’s hard to check if they have been correctly allocted to a catagory.

Person/Company pages now have a new field: AKA. Freelinking links will search the AKA field if there is no match among page titles. So now AXE and Ian Slavin should link to the same page, for example.

NB. text matches must be exact. This means that only one alternative moniker can go in the AKA field.

I suggest we stick to a convention, that real names are used in page titles if at all possible, and the moniker goes in the AKA field.

There’s a new type of page that can now be created; a “Child Product Node” is a numbered page which is attached to another product page. So for example, you could add a page to describe the content of an individual issue of a magazine.

To use it, you must first create the “Product Page” and make a note of its node number (which is in the URL). Then enter that number as “Parent node” when you create the child page.

Links from the parent product page, and to other child nodes, will be automatically generated.

On another note, you can now add tables in page descriptions using a simple markup:

[table !Heading1 | !Heading

]

Is there a method of providing data for a bulk upload as I have 85 Fred disc pages that I want to put up?

I have bollocked up node 166 (Little Joke) - can the extra screenshots be removed?

You’ll notice at the bottom of person/company pages there is now a new “Related Products” section. This contains an automatically generated list of product pages which cite this company or person.

(That’s the theory anyway. In fact, it performs a rather fuzzy search on the full-text index, and gets several false positives. But it’s better than nothing, and can be improved in the future).

Is there any way to generate a related items link at the bottom of an item, for example on a software vendors page like ‘FRED Publishing’ it can link all other items can link to it?