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This is an old revision of ShadowPages made by MasinAlDujaili on 2006-10-09 08:24:51.

 

Shadow Pages

I called this ShadowPages in lack of a better term. The principle behind this is some kind of 'set' of wiki pages which get displayed instead of the default. The most interesting use of this might be for translations, where each language gets its own 'Shadow' of wiki pages. Also it might be useful for personal annotations to different pages, without having each one published for everyone -- thus, Shadow Pages can have ACLs differing from their true pages.

I think, there might even be other uses for such a feature. In case, there is no page for the current 'shadow' it defaults to the normal Wiki page. Optionally, a notice can be displayed stating, that for the current Shadow there is no page, and asking to create one.

Technically, I'd suppose that Shadow Pages are stored in the data base with a prefix the user creating this shadow has chosen. So, the page MyMemo:ShadowPages would be the shadow MyMemo of the page ShadowPages. As this might collide with InterWiki links, the colon seems to be no appropriate choice. As it is some kind of SubPage concept, it might collide with the general idea of Wikka of not having this feature.

There are, of course, some problems with this kind of concept. What shall happen to Shadow Pages if their parent page has been deleted? How to switch between different Shadow Pages?

I'd greatly like to hear some opinions in this matter before thinking too much about its realization ...
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