Site talk:Developer stuff

Hi all, Just wanted to post a note about why I am putting this stuff here. I have lost some files that I had worked on in the past that would have made it easier to do the most recent changes (adding the verse links in the table of contents). Also, a couple of people have expressed interest in helping out with some back-end work to make the site better. With both of those things in mind, it seemed like it was the right time to start putting on the site itself some resources for developers.

--Matthew Faulconer 06:10, 13 Sep 2005 (CEST)

What links here pages

I just realized a that the What links here page for commentary pages doesn't track links to individual verses. For example, using a reference such as D&C 59:21-24 will show up on the What links here page for the D&C 59:21-24 commentary page, but a reference such as D&C 59:19 will not show up on the What links here page for the D&C 59:16-20 commentary page. I think this is unfortunate and greatly diminishes the relative benefit of discussion and user-subpages (my thinking was that if I posted subpage notes on this site, at least they'd show up on the What links here pages for each verse, implicitly creating a running index for anything on the site). So is there any relatively easy way to fix this? If not, I guess I'll have that much more of an incentive to post directly to commentary pages.... --RobertC 20:04, 19 Jun 2006 (UTC)

I don't see an easy fix here. I have thought of taking the site and redoing it into a single verse per page versus 5 verses per page. That would be sort of a hassle but I think it would solve the problem you point out. And, if it is the right thing to do, the sooner it is done the easier it will be to do it. There is sort of a way to see the what links here that you want without doing this but it takes several steps. I don't think it will be very satisfying but in case you are curious here are the steps (though you may have already noticed this). Click "what links here" on the D&C 59:16-20 page. From that page click the link to D&C 59:21 then click the D&C 59:21?redirect=no D&C 59:21 link right under the title to the page you get redirected to. Then click the What links here link on that page. Hardly an easy process but that is where it is. --Matthew Faulconer 04:34, 20 Jun 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Matthew. There's no easy way to transclude these pages together is there? I'm guessing not b/c these don't appear to be actual pages, but newly generated queries or something. If that's the case, then the obvious question is how hard would it be to generate script that queried all pages referring to page-verses between the verse numbers. Obviously not any sort of priority, but an eventual improvement to think about.... --RobertC 00:04, 29 Jun 2006 (UTC)