Sweet. I hope you can showcase more of the customization options in
your own MW blog... and that other examples pop up as well. I don't
know that MW is the ideal blogging platform (recent case in point: the
recent Wikimania blog [1]) but it's good that you are touching on
issues of transcluding and summarizing articles in various formats.
This is useful for a calendar or blogpost-overview, but also more
broadly for articles and timelines of varying levels of detail. A
timeline of human history[2], for instance, might need more than a few
different levels.
SJ
[1]
That is amazing! We need more people doing things like
this. I am going
to play with what you have done.
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I have completed two projects which can now intermingle.
I designed a simple set of templates to allow weblog-style articles --
namely for permanent links and discussion.
Also, borrowing ideas from existing calendar templating, I created a
series of templates which interact to generate a calendar.
The weblogging stuff is pretty simple. Here are the calendar features:
* Per-cell display customizing. Display the number one, or something
else like an image.
* Per-calendar overall calendar styles. Colour your calendar different,
choose different layouts.. whatever.
* Per-calendar link generation. No links, links to calendars.. link
generation can also be different depending on the cell in the calendar.
1 is different than 2 and can have a different kind of link generated
for it.
This means that I can:
* create a plain calendar for August 2005.
* create a calendar for August 2005 which is styled differently --
colours, date positions etc.
* create a calendar for August 2005 where each link points to a page
unique to that day.
I haven't bothered to extend the month-shaping templates beyond
June/July/August[1] yet, since there are 28 of them, but the'll all get
done in due time.
[1] August 2005 is 31 days beginning on monday, June 2005 is 30 days
beginning on wednesday.. every combination needs to have a template made
for it.
All of this is probably more easily done with extensions, but I decided
to use MediaWiki's existing templating functionality.
it all works for me. I took the time to document things so that the
next person who comes along will hopefully have a lot of help.
When my site's not down, the relevant links are:
http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/MediaWiki_as_a_weblog
http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/MediaWiki_calendar_templating
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