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.
<snip>
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
Similar behaviour could be achieved with user pages. I would support (and perhaps code a patch for, even if not to be included in the main code) a feature whereby ordinary users can only edit their own user pages, while allowing sysops to edit other user's user pages as needed.
Rob Church
On 30/12/05, Jeff Carr jcarr@linuxmachines.com wrote:
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.
<snip> > 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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
On 12/31/05, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Similar behaviour could be achieved with user pages. I would support (and perhaps code a patch for, even if not to be included in the main code) a feature whereby ordinary users can only edit their own user pages, while allowing sysops to edit other user's user pages as needed.
You're talking about the automatically-generated sub-page and backlink concepts? I'm not sure how pretty that would be..
No, I'm stating that one could, if one was so inclined, use one's user page to manage such a blog, and that it would be possible to make a number of modifications to prevent ordinary users from editing any user page but their own. (Talk pages would still be freely editable)
Rob Church
On 31/12/05, Sy Ali sy1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/31/05, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Similar behaviour could be achieved with user pages. I would support (and perhaps code a patch for, even if not to be included in the main code) a feature whereby ordinary users can only edit their own user pages, while allowing sysops to edit other user's user pages as needed.
You're talking about the automatically-generated sub-page and backlink concepts? I'm not sure how pretty that would be.. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
We tried to blog on Mediawiki with limited success... Then we installed WordPress and never looked back - software designed for blogging is far easier than trying to stuff a solution into Mediawiki.
- MHart
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Church" robchur@gmail.com To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 5:53 PM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki as a blog?
No, I'm stating that one could, if one was so inclined, use one's user page to manage such a blog, and that it would be possible to make a number of modifications to prevent ordinary users from editing any user page but their own. (Talk pages would still be freely editable)
Rob Church
On 31/12/05, Sy Ali sy1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/31/05, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Similar behaviour could be achieved with user pages. I would support (and perhaps code a patch for, even if not to be included in the main code) a feature whereby ordinary users can only edit their own user pages, while allowing sysops to edit other user's user pages as needed.
You're talking about the automatically-generated sub-page and backlink concepts? I'm not sure how pretty that would be.. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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For one approach to this, see
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yeidel/User_Pages_Editable_Only_By_User
This particular code does NOT permit superuser editing of User pages, but I think that's easy to change...
-- Joshua
On 12/31/05 2:53 PM, "Rob Church" robchur@gmail.com wrote:
No, I'm stating that one could, if one was so inclined, use one's user page to manage such a blog, and that it would be possible to make a number of modifications to prevent ordinary users from editing any user page but their own. (Talk pages would still be freely editable)
Rob Church
On 31/12/05, Sy Ali sy1234@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/31/05, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
Similar behaviour could be achieved with user pages. I would support (and perhaps code a patch for, even if not to be included in the main code) a feature whereby ordinary users can only edit their own user pages, while allowing sysops to edit other user's user pages as needed.
You're talking about the automatically-generated sub-page and backlink concepts? I'm not sure how pretty that would be.. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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On 12/30/05, Jeff Carr jcarr@linuxmachines.com wrote:
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.
<snip> > http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/MediaWiki_as_a_weblog > http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/MediaWiki_calendar_templating
I'm still enjoying what I've done with that templating. I agree that some official support would be wonderful to see, but I'm going to brace myself for "mediawiki is not a blog, if you want a blog you should be using something else" ;)
I think having that in mind is why I decided to do it myself.. it works for a single-user environment right now, but it's also made to be able to use different "styles" -- that style concept could be used to support multiple users.
I understand there are a few extensions.. I wonder if it's feasible to push to get one of those absorbed into the mainstream code.. I don't even know how good any of the extensions are..
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