Talk:Main Page

From low-art Gloominati

now that anonymous editing is disabled, we can use the page Special:Contributions to track individual user activity.

https://ip.servebeer.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=$1 , where the $1 the user name. Take for instance https://ip.servebeer.com/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Frig.neutron.

Does this special page provide the tracking capabilities you wanted?

-- Frig.neutron 11:17, 28 Apr 2005 (CDT)

I knew about that part, but the reason I want to keep track of User -> Article mapping is because I am thinking about the time when we decide to expose this content over RSS or some other scheme for integration with external clients, such as a Firefox plugin. It is possible to parse the Contributions page, but it is messy. Retrieving a category listing is easy, on the other hand.

btw, this is for sorting articles by author, rather than theme category. Since we will have to write the code to handle a category listing anyway, why not make it reusable for 'User' category as well?

-- Val 14:14, 28 Apr 2005 (CDT)

Ah, ok. This also has the advantage of multiple people "staking claim" to a given article. Essentially, you are proposing using the "Person - " category as an article aggregator.

-- Frig.neutron 18:45, 28 Apr 2005 (CDT)