Thank you. BoilerplateSelection would work but since it takes the user to an edit page so
early in the use of the wiki, it overwhelms them. My experience using wikis inside
business organizations is that form is far more important than function to get them to
early adopt use of wikis as a productivity/team building tool. I will try to modify
PagesOnDemand. Thank you so much for your help! Nancy
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From: Jim Hu
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Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] User page formatting
I think this could be done with some minimal modification of the
PagesOnDemand extension or, as Gary suggests, the
BoilerplateSelection extension. I think PagesOnDemand might be a bit
closer, since I think BoilerplateSelection takes the user to an edit
page, while PagesOnDemand takes them to a formatted page as if it was
always there. You'd have to write an extension that hooks into
PagesOnDemand, but I think it would be very easy to adapt the sample.
Jim
On Aug 6, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Nancy Dailey wrote:
I'm designing a "skill repository" for a
corporate management team
to know who has expertise in some task. Instead of designing a
custom SQL database, I've been trying to use a wiki to allow them
to log on and edit their user page, which should contain a list of
skills and associated ratings.
I've set up a sample user page, but it's proven too complicated for
them to copy the wikiText from the sample and paste it into their
own user page. Is there a way to inject my wikiText into the user
page space in the database when they create an account? The
primary functionality I'm looking for is: A) when they open their
user page, they see the sample text [not an edit box] and; B) they
can edit the skill set and add numbers representing skill level on
their individual user page [excludes templates].
Any thoughts on good extensions/workarounds would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks!
Nancy Dailey
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