Hello,
Thank you for the responses to my inquiry regarding blog-like comments on MediaWiki. So far, it doesn't appear this is possible.
If we use the Discussion pages (and lock down the Article pages to editors/admins only), is there a way to hold Discussion posts (by registered users) in some sort of moderating queue, so that Admins can approve Discussion page posts prior to publication?
Thank you, Colleen Robledo
On 12/4/06, Fernando Correia fernandoacorreia@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe you should give the "talk" page a try. If not, you could:
a) integrate with a forum software b) develop an extension
I'm new to PHP and MediaWiki but I found out that developing an extension to MediaWiki is not too hard.
2006/12/1, Morten Blaabjerg morten@crewscut.com:
There's been several attempts at making Blog type extensions, take a
look
at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_extensions Although AFAIK there's nothing in the true vein of what you describe.
I've been looking for something similar, but in the end I just came to
the
conclusion that a wiki and a blog is two quite different things.
MediaWiki in particular was designed to split the content of a page and the discussion into two distinct pages. This has advantages, if you want to keep a distinction between "front end" and "back end" of the system. I've
seen
a lot of other wikis where everything is kept on the same page. In a
sense,
they are more true to the original wiki idea than MW, in that they keep process and content together in the same context, which makes things a
lot
simpler. MW has a lot of strength though, in making an informal page
where
"everything is allowed", as opposed to the "encyclopedic article" page where things has to be presented by the book. It all depends on the project.
If you want a blog, better go with a blog-friendly system. A blog-tool
is
great for getting a message out quickly and discussing it. A wiki is an incredibly strong collaborative working environment. Which do you want
the
more? There's no reason both couldn't coexist, using CSS and some kind
of
common structure.
Best wishes, Morten :-)
-- Morten Blaabjerg / Crews Cut Production http://morten.crewscut.com morten@crewscut.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Colleen Robledo" < colleenrobledo@gmail.com> To: mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:37 PM Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Incorporating blog-like "Comments"
Hello,
I run an internal MediaWiki wiki for our company, and we're now
looking
at
using the software to develop a public wiki for our customers. What
my
future team of public wiki admins would like, however, is for each
Article
to include a blog-like Comments tool (comments form, and comments
posts,
all on the Article page) to encourage public discussion of each
Article. They
do not like the Discussion tab option because it breaks the
conversation
flow.
Has anyone successfully used any type of plug-in for this type of
feature?
Or do you have other suggestions?
The other side of this request, is that they would like anyone (not
just
registered users) to be able to Comment, and for those Comments to be
able
to sit in a moderation queue for approval.... in other words, exactly
what
blogs do with Comments.
Thank you!
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