I'm working on setting up a wikipage for my research lab and our
tech support gave us the interface of mediawiki. Due to the
university constrain rules, I cannot access the backend files such
as configure php files etc. However, I have such a function that
need to be implemented. There is a publication page which contains
all the publications we had the lab. My boss asked me to make it:
1. edit once affect everywhere;
2. can be sort by time or authoer name or type (conference, journal,
thesis.);
3. can be colored by different publication type;
4. can be referenced in each person's wikipage but only with a
subset of the publication list (the paper appears in one's page only
if he/she was the author of the paper. Thus, it creates synchronize
challenge with goal 1.)
I know that we could create a mysql database and use php files to do
that (exactly what we did before.)
I know it is too much to ask, but I'm really dancing with the
"handcuff" on since I cannot access the backend and only via the
mediawiki interface. Are there any other ways to finish this task?
Any suggestions are appreciated.