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Hi Andrew Use a category. http://www.finditillinois.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:Categories If you add a particular category flag to your pages (when you programmatically add thumbnails etc), then they will be listed on the corresponding category page on the wiki. Cheers Con On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 14:08 -0500, Bullen, Andrew wrote: > Dear all, > > There seems to be a carbon monoxide leak at my desk; I am very stoopid > today. Can anyone help me with this problem: > > A.) I am trying to revamp my centuries-old homebrew image database > system; I would like my users to be able to annotate images, but would > like to maintain the integrity of the image's metadata. I have opted > therefore to having image metadata served up by a MySQL dynamically > but will ALSO link to an editable mediawiki page. Example: > http://www.pullman-museum.org/images/imageExample.html which replaces > http://www.pullman-museum.org/cgi-bin/pvm/mainRecordDisplayXML.pl?recordid=10921. (BTW, I would be happy for any comments about design, etc.) An example local mediawiki page doing this can be found at http://www.finditillinois.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapel_Cars. > > B.) The link at the bottom of the imageExample.html page links to a > mediawiki page. If the page doesn't exist, the user is prompted to > create a page from scratch. So far, so good. > > C.) The problem is that the page exists off all on its own; it is not > linked from any other page, and hence not part of the organic wiki. I > have hacked a Perl script that will allow me to move the image > thumbnail to the wiki, so that the image and some fields of the > metadata will appear. However, I have not been able to auto-add a link > to the newly created wiki entry onto a master page (say, > http://www.finditillinois.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page). I > could, of course, keep track of it externally and serve up a list of > wiki'd images as a simple pick list, but I would rather keep a list in > the wiki. > > Any ideas? Anyone else ever try something like this? Or is my approach > completely wonky? > > Andy > > Andrew Bullen > Illinois State Library > James R. Thompson Center > 100 West Randolph Street > Suite 5-400 > Chicago, Illinois 60601 > > E-Mail: [log in to unmask] > Telephone: 312-814-4386 > FAX: 312-814-2954 > > > > > > > > > > ************************************************ > Disclaimer - This email and any files transmitted with it are > confidential and contain privileged or copyright information. You must > not present this message to another party without gaining permission > from the sender. If you are not the intended recipient you must not > copy, distribute or use this email or the information contained in it > for any purpose other than to notify the Office of the Illinois > Secretary of State. > > If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender > immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views > expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except > where the sender specifically states them to be the views of the > Office of the Illinois Secretary of State. > ************************************************ -- Conal Tuohy New Zealand Electronic Text Centre www.nzetc.org