Old, outdated, monologue

Hello,
here is a proposal to add a new option to directive pagestats (from plugin pagestats).

This adds global option pagestats_linktext (and directive option linktext) to specify whether directive pagestats should use the page name or the title of tags.

Here is a patch, for both code and documentation.

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm
index 17b26f7..a65fd7a 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm
@@ -29,11 +29,31 @@ sub getsetup () {
            rebuild => undef,
            section => "widget",
        },
+       pagestats_linktext => {
+           type => "string",
+           example => "title",
+           description => "Set link text to be whether page title (page) or meta title (title).",
+           safe => 1,
+           rebuild => 1,
+       },
+}
+
+sub linktext ($$) {
+   # Return the text of the link to a tag, depending on option linktext.
+   use Data::Dumper;
+   my $page = $_[0];
+   my $linktype = $_[1];
+   if (($linktype eq "title") and (exists $pagestate{$page}{meta}{title})) {
+       return $pagestate{$page}{meta}{title};
+   } else {
+       return undef;
+   }
 }

 sub preprocess (@) {
    my %params=@_;
    $params{pages}="*" unless defined $params{pages};
+   $params{linktext} = $config{pagestats_linktext} unless defined $params{linktext};
    my $style = ($params{style} or 'cloud');

    my %counts;
@@ -78,7 +98,7 @@ sub preprocess (@) {
        return "<table class='".(exists $params{class} ? $params{class} : "pageStats")."'>\n".
            join("\n", map {
                "<tr><td>".
-               htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $_, noimageinline => 1).
+               htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $_, noimageinline => 1, linktext => linktext($_, $params{linktext})).
                "</td><td>".$counts{$_}."</td></tr>"
            }
            sort { $counts{$b} <=> $counts{$a} } keys %counts).
@@ -101,8 +121,8 @@ sub preprocess (@) {

            $res.="<li>" if $style eq 'list';
            $res .= "<span class=\"$class\">".
-                   htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $page).
-                   "</span>\n";
+                           htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $page, linktext => linktext($page, $params{linktext})).
+                           "</span>\n";
            $res.="</li>" if $style eq 'list';

        }
diff --git a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/pagestats.mdwn b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/pagestats.mdwn
index 8d904f5..56970e6 100644
--- a/doc/ikiwiki/directive/pagestats.mdwn
+++ b/doc/ikiwiki/directive/pagestats.mdwn
@@ -37,4 +37,6 @@ links:
 The optional `class` parameter can be used to control the class
 of the generated tag cloud `div` or page stats `table`.

+The optional `linktext` parameter can be used to control the text that is displayed for each tag. It can be `page` (the name of the page is used) or `title` (the title, according to the <a href="../../ikiwiki/directive/meta/">meta</a> <a href="../../ikiwiki/directive/">directive</a>, is used). This option can be set globally in the setup using option `pagestats_linktext`; default is `page`.
+

diff --git a/doc/plugins/pagestats.mdwn b/doc/plugins/pagestats.mdwn
index 347e39a..6a72a9a 100644
--- a/doc/plugins/pagestats.mdwn
+++ b/doc/plugins/pagestats.mdwn
@@ -4,3 +4,7 @@
 This plugin provides the <a href="../../ikiwiki/directive/pagestats/">pagestats</a>
 <a href="../../ikiwiki/directive/">directive</a>, which can generate stats about how pages link to
 each other, or display a tag cloud.
+
+Their is one global option for the setup file:
+
+* `pagestats_linktext` controls the text that is displayed for each tag. If `page` (the default), the name of the page is used; if `title`, its title (according to the <a href="../../ikiwiki/directive/meta/">meta</a> <a href="../../ikiwiki/directive/">directive</a>) is used.

-- Louis

Hello,
do not accept my patch: it is an ugly hack that works for me, but its too narrow to be merged in IkiWiki:

  • it assumes the pagestats directive only deals with tags, which is wrong;
  • such a feature (allowing displaying tags using their title), if enabled, should be enabled for the tag plugin (and maybe other plugins I have in mind) as well.

I cannot manage to find a solution to my problem that suits me.

My problem

On two sites I maintain using IkiWiki, I have tags that:

  • have special characters in it (like ยท) that generate ugly URLs;
  • have subtags (e.g. math/calculus, math/algebra, physics/mechanic etc.).

That is, having taglink or pagestats displaying tags using the pagename (that is something derived from the basename of the URL) is not sufficient for me. I would like to be able to display them using their title, their full name (from the tagbase parameter), or both.

Solution?

A solution would be to provide a tagtext config option, set to one of page (use pagename), title (use meta title), path (use path, since the tagbase), pathtitle (use path, and use title for each of the subtags); or a boolean display_tagtitle and display_tagpath, which would handle the way tags are displayed.

I see at least two drawbacks to this solution:

  • I do not know what would be the default of these options, not to break backward compatibility: taglink would suggest page, whereas the footer would suggest path.
  • The pagestats directive would need an optional boolean parameter tag, to specify whether to use these options or not.

My problem ?

I actually wonder if someone else also have this problem: as far as I can see on other sites using IkiWiki and tags, I would not be surprised if others are satisfyed with the current way tags are displayed: I do not remember having seen subtags, or tags in non-English language with weird characters in them.

So, I wonder whether this discussion would benefit IkiWiki, or if I should just go on with my hack (or maybe a plugin, but I think it would be quite difficult to do, given that the very same function is used to display tags and to uniquely identify them).

-- Louis

I eventually managed to get something that suits me, for the problem described above (I want pagestats directive to display title rather than page name).

Here is a patch that adds an option disp for the pagestats, acting exactly the same as option show for the map directive (but parameter show was already used for something else). That is, if one wants its tags displayed using their title rather than their page name, she can use param disp, is in:

[[!pagestats   pages="tags/*" disp=title]]

Patch

diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm
index 17b26f7..8a5e100 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/pagestats.pm
@@ -31,6 +31,19 @@ sub getsetup () {
        },
 }

+sub linktext ($%) {
+   # Return the text of the link to a tag, depending on option linktext.
+   my ($page, %params) = @_;
+  if (exists $params{disp} && 
+      exists $pagestate{$page} &&
+      exists $pagestate{$page}{meta}{$params{disp}}) {
+    return $pagestate{$page}{meta}{$params{disp}};
+  }
+  else {
+    return undef;
+  }
+}
+
 sub preprocess (@) {
    my %params=@_;
    $params{pages}="*" unless defined $params{pages};
@@ -78,7 +91,7 @@ sub preprocess (@) {
        return "<table class='".(exists $params{class} ? $params{class} : "pageStats")."'>\n".
            join("\n", map {
                "<tr><td>".
-               htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $_, noimageinline => 1).
+               htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $_, noimageinline => 1, linktext => linktext($_, %params)).
                "</td><td>".$counts{$_}."</td></tr>"
            }
            sort { $counts{$b} <=> $counts{$a} } keys %counts).
@@ -101,7 +114,7 @@ sub preprocess (@) {

            $res.="<li>" if $style eq 'list';
            $res .= "<span class=\"$class\">".
-                   htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $page).
+                           htmllink($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $page, linktext => linktext($page, %params)).
                    "</span>\n";
            $res.="</li>" if $style eq 'list';

Regards,
-- Louis

Saved to my git repository as contrib/spalax/pagestats-disp. I'd rather find a better name than disp for the parameter. I think display would be an improvement, but that doesn't solve the problem of "it's a synonym for show, and non-obvious which is which". Maybe linktext?

It's unfortunate that map and pagestats have different meanings for the show parameter. I'm tempted to propose a patch that adds something like limit (by analogy with SQL) or max as the canonical name for the "number of things to match" parameter, at which point a non-numeric show could mean this thing. --smcv

Available in a git repository branch.
Branch: smcv/pagestats-show
Author: Louis, smcv

Here's a branch. It depends on my ready/limit branch from pick a new canonical name for equivalent of SQL limit. --smcv

Merged --smcv