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
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> Chicago, Illinois  60601
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