A while back a developer posted:
On 08/13/05 11:59, Sy sy1234@gmail.com wrote:
I designed a simple set of templates to allow weblog-style articles -- namely for permanent links and discussion.
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http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/MediaWiki_as_a_weblog http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/MediaWiki_calendar_templating
My email is just to request that a blog feature be added to MediaWiki. Perhaps a blog link on each user's mail wiki page that can be enabled by the site administrator? A bonus would be having a site-wide option to make the blog's only editable by the blog owner.
When the Mozilla Foundation migrated developer.mozilla.org to the MediaWiki, one of the things I noticed at the time was that they use something else for the developer blogs. Perhaps if the MediaWiki had this feature it could be used for everything?
Enjoy, Jeff