rowan.collins wrote:

[please try to make the summary of bugs describe the issue succinctly but precisely]

kbaas wrote:

possible formatting of date range:

startdate=May 4, 2004
enddate= (three days before today)

or

startdate=May 4, 2004
enddaterel=-3

if a begin date or end date is not specified, those limits are unbounded. (i.e.
up to present and/or to the beginnig of time)

then category filtering for relative dating could be something like (example for
"today"):

date=0

rowan.collins wrote:

Just a quick thought that without specific support at the database level, this
could be hard to implement efficiently, since the database only stores links of
the form "article X is in category Y". This feature would have to first create a
list of all categories in the scope of the date-range and then create a query of
the form "where the article is in category [a] OR the article is in category [b]
OR the article is in category [c] ... etc" For a large date range, you'd need an
awfully long database query - and I can't think of any way of making that
efficient without redesigning the database structure.

mediazilla wrote:

I generally concur with Rowan. I don't think this is possible while the schemas
is as-is. Additionally, non-English Wikinewses have different date formats that
they're using, complicating this type of a feature.

I do agree that the feature is a good idea.

kbaas wrote:

right. you'd have to add a column to a table, or alternatively a table by which
to do an inner join to an existing table. then there wouldn't be "long
queries", just "between" statements. regarding different date formats: that's
easily enough done.

relative dating, however, is a separate issue and doesn't seem to have this
problem of requiring a change in the table strcuture.

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