[Mediawiki-l] "Aging" of documents/articles

[Jim Wilson]

If it were me, (assuming you're sticking with the Monobook skin), I'd hook
MonobookTemplateToolboxEnd, do a check on the article's last mod date - then
insert a bar of the appropriate color inside an <li> element.

But that's just me. ;)

-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)

On 4/10/07, Dirk Westfal <dirk.westfal at frankfurter-verein.de> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> i`m looking for a way to implement an "aging" mechanism for
> documents/articles
> to indicate the assumed reliability of the content as part of a quality
> management process:
>
> - a new document/article has the 'reliability' status 'green'
> - after a three months without changes it turns to 'yellow' and after half
> an
> year to 'red' and has to be 'verified'.
>
> I`m thinking about using the 'talkpage' for this process and now i`m
> looking
> for the neccessary hooks to set this up.
>
> My current ideas are to either:
> a) dynamic: search for a 'signature' containing a timestamp on the
> talkpage
> for each document/article and show the appropiate status each time the
> document/article is shown.
>
> b)static: use a bot like pybot to do nightly checks (eg, using
> special:ancientpages) and change a template on all documents/articles
> where
> appropiate.
> (btw: anyone using pybot or another bot for an intranet wiki? can`t get it
> to
> work :( )
>
> Are there better ways to do this? Has someone perhaps already implemented
> a
> similar solution?
>
> many thanks,
> dwe
>
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