Violent games on the OLPC Activities page

[Jameson "Chema" Quinn]

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> Finally, any suggestions about how to extent, augment, or replace
> Media Wiki with tools to make these sorts of things easier for the
> community to manage would be appreciated.
>

There are several mediaWiki extensions that might help:
1. You could do an evil hack using the well-tested PageFunctions (for
variables declared at the top of an including page) and ParserFunctions (for
using in templates that can hide themselves depending on the variable
values). This would involve significant, hard-to-maintain work for each new
slice view you wanted to implement. However, if all views were just a series
of subsets of the 'all' view (all, unproblematic, core), this would not be
too hard, and populating it could be done by anyone able to copy and edit
wiki templates.
2. The WikiDB extension [1] appears to be precisely, exactly what is wanted
here. From quickly browsing its homesite, it appears to be working, but
possibly too buggy to slap onto a wiki as large as the OLPC one.
Significantly, it does not guarantee that the databases it creates will stay
in sync under rarer operations (restoring deleted pages...), nor does it
appear at first to have a way to regenerate its databases if they do get
hosed. Go have a look if you're interested and tell us what you think.
3. Semantic mediawiki is a heavyweight replacement version of Mediawiki with
some tools that, while they are not precisely what we want, would work for
this issue. Probably overkill.

[1] http://www.kennel17.co.uk/testwiki/WikiDB
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