WantedPagesPlugin Development Discussion

It would be useful to have a plugin that finds all non-existing pages that have links pointing to them. Visually those links are shown as red-links. Example red-links:

• Write: AnyNewWikiWord, renders as: AnyNewWikiWord
• Write: [[AnyNewWikiWord]], renders as: AnyNewWikiWord
• Write: [[AnyNewWikiWord][new wiki word]], renders as: new wiki word

• Write: Sandbox.AnyNewWikiWord, renders as: AnyNewWikiWord
• Write: [[Sandbox.AnyNewWikiWord]], renders as: Sandbox.AnyNewWikiWord
• Write: [[Sandbox.AnyNewWikiWord][new wiki word]], renders as: new wiki word

The plugin needs to be aware of the NOAUTOLINK preferences setting, as well as the <noautolink>...</noautolink> tags. There should be an option to scan just the current web (faster) or all webs (slower). See also related topics below.

As for user interface, I envision a WantedPages page that has a form to select a web, and on submit shows a list of wanted pages. Screen mock-up:

As for implementation, the plugin could handle a %WANTEDPAGES{ web="%URLPARAM{wantedWeb}%" allwebs="%URLPARAM{allWebs}%" }% variable that produces above wanted pages table.

Anyone interested in implementing this plugin? It is a good first time project to get involved with open source TWiki contributions.

-- PeterThoeny - 2011-04-03