I've been asked to provide "sign-off" ability to the articles. I am putting manuals and procedures into a wiki and the production manager wants sales and tech people to sign off on each article signifying they have read it and/or been trained on the procedures.
I have a template that can sort-off do that but I am really looking for a clickable link on each article page that a user can click on and it will then record that action as the user name and date/time. It could do it in the Talk pages, as long as the action is recorded.
I would rather not require the users to edit the page.
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks,
--Yan
If your business problem is to "show only approved articles," consider the extension FlaggedRevisions.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
It provides an infrastructure for article approval. It takes some time to set up, but you won't have to build everything yourself.
DanB
An even easier solution would be to get a javascript gadget that grabs the current page title and saves it along with ~~~~ on a log page
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.comwrote:
If your business problem is to "show only approved articles," consider the extension FlaggedRevisions.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
It provides an infrastructure for article approval. It takes some time to set up, but you won't have to build everything yourself.
DanB
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On Dec 12, 2013 8:05 AM, "John" phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
An even easier solution would be to get a javascript gadget that grabs the current page title and saves it along with ~~~~ on a log page
If you need something simple, do this. It should honestly be about 10 lines of JavaScript.
If you need this to stand up in court, it's a little more complicated. I actually built a system for this in tikiwiki several years ago.. It's not trivial, and I wouldn't recommend it.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Daniel Barrett <danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
If your business problem is to "show only approved articles," consider
the
extension FlaggedRevisions.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FlaggedRevs
It provides an infrastructure for article approval. It takes some time
to
set up, but you won't have to build everything yourself.
DanB
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On Dec 12, 2013 8:05 AM, "John" phoenixoverride@gmail.com wrote:
An even easier solution would be to get a javascript gadget that grabs the current page title and saves it along with ~~~~ on a log page
If you need something simple, do this. It should honestly be about 10 lines of JavaScript.
If you need this to stand up in court, it's a little more complicated. I actually built a system for this in tikiwiki several years ago.. It's not trivial, and I wouldn't recommend it.
Fortunately it doesn't have to stand up in court. :) This is just for internal record keeping.
We have people all over North America, and when we update the user manual or the procedures we want to know they read the updated articles. When we train our techs and dealers we also want them to log that they've read the appropriate manual sections.
What we need is something that will have multiple "signed off by" or "reviewed by" lines with each article so that the managers can see who has read the article.
What I need is something like the javascript widget but a bit fancier; right now I am looking at modifying the Comments extension as that would also allow the reviewers to add a short comment about the procedure or article and to set a default value of "reviewed".
The FlaggedRevs extension is overkill for what we need.
--Yan
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