Are you aware of LiquidThreads? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Threads
It sounds like it is almost usable now. From the coder's blog: http://davidmccabe.blogspot.com/
"Well, today the Google gig is over. Don't worry; I intend to stick with the project at least until LQT is on the English Wikipedia. The status of the project is:
* There is an alpha that works now. * I am refactoring the program; it will be significantly more flexible and maintainable in a week or two when that is finished. * LQT will need to work in multiple modes and configurations. For example, on some sites they don't want nested threads, but on others they need it. With the new design I just mentioned, both groups can be satisfied. * We are scrapping several features, most notably the arbitrary ordering of comments, for the time being. Nobody seems to care about them, they're difficult to protect from abuse, and they can be added later. * I am contemplating how categories or something like them could be used together with saved searches or something like them to make life on Wikipedia a lot easier. "
On 8/30/06, Wang Jerry wkbjerry@gmail.com wrote:
Thanx for your help, guys.
As an idealist person, I would love to pose the goal high and then, with comprehensive research, re-adjust its position properly.
I have read your instructions and meanwhile searched the internet. I think this requested feature does be immodest. Instead of finding the perfect solution, I am trying to figure out which of these features I can achieve to the best of my abilities.
Thanks again to everyone. I hope we can keep talking on this issue to find out a better view on how good and how much we can possibly achieve by now.
2006/8/30, wiki@avenarius.sk wiki@avenarius.sk:
On Tuesday, 29th August 2006 at 20:58:48 (GMT +0100), Rob Church wrote:
it could well be that MediaWiki is expecting to find latin1 data, in which it wraps UTF-8 data regardless, and does some encoding/ unencoding work each end. If it doesn't know that the database table it's reading is using UTF-8 collation, then it is bound to bugger up the usernames, no?
Well... the phpBB database is, in fact, *not* using UTF-8 collation... Looking at the tables in phpMyAdmin, the collation still says "latin1_swedish_ci" as it did before. However: to turn phpBB into a truly multilingual board, we had to (among other things) download an SQL dump of the entire phpBB database, then manually convert that file into UTF-8, then upload all the tables back into the database.
This was the final step necessary to make phpBB truly multi-lingual. If left out, gibberish was displayed. However, this final step now seems to confuse MediaWiki when it tries to fetch users' names from the table. (Our effort to bridge phpBB with Coppermine failed as well, perhaps for the same reason... However, we prefer a fully multilingual albeit isolated board over one that would be integrated at the cost of being mutilated.)
Maybe the issue will be resolved on its own when phpBB rolls out one day with UTF-8 as its default encoding and manual conversions are no longer necessary.
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