Joseph Smith wrote:
I would suggest having a link in the mainboards table to the flash chip equivalents table for each chip that has been seen on that board. Why duplicate when we can link?
That's a great idea in all, but that still doesn't help with the data duplication.
What data do you mean is duplicated? Sorry, I don't follow.
I haven't looked into it yet but is there a way to insert mysql database calls into mediawiki?
I don't think there is, short of hacking up mediawiki code, which is quite undesirable.
I think it's important that wikis stay self-contained. That said I don't think there is anything wrong with generating some content and even storing it in the wiki automatically. But it's a bad idea when the content may end up being changed in the wiki itself.
Anyway, I don't understand why we need a database. I think a wiki page would be perfect.
//Peter