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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 16, 2010 - 09:56 PM

  Hi,
  
  there are several tickets in the News project talking about related articles to display alongside the original article. There is already the option to show more articles from the same category, but not a wider related articles display.
  
  I have something to start with (see this ticket #95), but was wondering for an (more) effective and useful algorithm.
  For wordpress there are several plugins (http://www.flamescorpion.com/2010/01/best-4-related-articles-wordpress-plugins/) that filter out related articles with some scoring level and a match treshold, etc etc.
  Has anybody already done something like http://mitcho.com/code/yarpp/ for zikula? The description of Yet Another Related Posts Plugin for WP is Using a customizable algorithm considering post titles, content, tags, and categories, YARPP calculates a “match score” for each pair of posts on your blog. You choose the threshold limit for relevance and you get more related posts if there are more related posts and less if there are less.
  
  Would such an option be useful to people and with what options? Please give some feedback or ideas...
  
  
  
  Edited by espaan on Aug 17, 2010 - 10:58 AM.
  
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• espaan
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 01:28 AM

  Bump....
  So nobody wants to have a feature like "Related Articles" in News
  
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• denisrf
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 04:10 AM

  Hi Erik,
  
  I don't have a use for this sort of thing at the moment although I have done in the past and probably will in the future. What your proposing here would probably fit the bill to start with. My idea is that down the track it should also be able to pull related stuff from other modules. For instance calendar events related to a news item. Many people write static stuff with Pages or Content, being to get those related pages would be great. Maybe worth thinking about for 1.3
  
  Warm regards
  Denis

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• Roadrunner
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 04:41 AM

  What about showing related news based on the crpTags used for a story.
  
  If a write something about blue widgets in Alaska for green androids any story with one of the tags (blue, widgets, Alaska, green, androids) may show as related content (and that may work as well for other modules).
  
  A simple score for relevancy may be given by the match of tags (1 out of 5, 2 out of 5, etc.)
  
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• Wendell
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 05:17 AM

  +2 ... one for denisrf and one for Roadrunner!
  
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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Aug 27, 2010 - 05:40 AM

  1. crpTag
  2. extra fields for tags [I have some pagesetter/pagemaster set-ups for that]
  [sign var="Array" value=$news.tags]
  [foreach from=$Array item="num" name=tags]
  and let the foreach do some stuff you want
  3. I'm no fan for dynamic stuff, I have a feeling it might get unrelated stuff + I'm thinking performance [although database cache will be possible in 1.3.x]
  4. Personally I think 'related articles' are old school and is way overrated nowadays [opinion!!!, I will not discuss this].
  
  Anyway, that was actually my main reason I switched to Pagesetter in the old days, 'keyname' related inlineLists I think I'll do the same with pageMaster in the long run, but, it's worth to follow your ideas!
  
  - Igor

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