[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki Enhancement for Discussion Threading

[Dave Sigafoos]

I (being older :) actually like the visual a threaded display gives you.
Interesting hack.  

We would be happy to be a secondary test if you would like.

DSig
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jack D.
Pond
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 20:09
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Subject: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki Enhancement for Discussion Threading

Many of my developers and project managers like threading for
discussions.
In order to get greater adoption, I've developed an extension/patch that
makes the discussion page look like the archives of a listserv.  Don't
know
if this is even worth consideration, but in the spirit of openness
thought I
would throw it out.  If there's time and interest, I'll clean it up and
make
it generally available - right now it's very experimental - although
we're
using it here in production.
 
I've posted this highly experimental patch/extension at
http://www.mediawiki.org/Wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading
<http://www.mediawiki.org/Wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading> 
 
This extension implements a discussion threading process. This threading
will only be seen on the talk pages, unless explicitly invoked in the
command line.

It adds a [reply] link on the header line. Each time a new posting is
entered or a posting is replied to, the comment will automatically be
tagged
(and appear in the TOC too). Of course direct editing can occur, but
this
really makes it a lot easier to organize discussions in a threading view
that most are familiar with.

 

To do (if there's enough interest):

1.	Internationalize 
2.	get someone who knows regex to clean up the parsing of the
subject
line 
3.	Assess to see if there's an easier way to do this - I've
probably
screwed it up royally.

 

Montgomery County Shield <http://www.montcopa.org/> 	 Jack D. Pond
CIO, Montgomery County, PA

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)



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