Ooops, the link to this should have been
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading>
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Jack D. Pond
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:07 AM
To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list'
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Extension DiscussionThreading V1.3
I've updated extension DiscussionThreading
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading>
to be compatible all the way through 1.13.1 and trunk. As a
new feature (thanks to Daniel Brice), it now automatically
indents replies and makes it easier to find where the editing
should begin on replies. Additionally, it has been
internationalized for more than 20 languages (thanks to siebrand).
This extension has been in several production systems for
over two years was written as a formatting extension to
Talk_Pages, rather than a replacement.
The talk pages can still be used as a free-form article
pages, but threads can be incorporated by using the [+] tab
or the [edit][new][reply] tags which now appear in each
section header. It also offers the additional flexibility of
allowing threads to be modified or removed, like any other
wiki information set.
There is another extension that is focused more on the
"newsgroup" type of approach, LiquidThreads or LQT
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LiquidThreads>. If
you are looking for a highly structured environment with
additional functionality (like sorting, email notification, .
. .), you may want to consider LiquidThreads.
The only consistent issue in the discussions around this
functionality that I can see solved by DiscussionHeading over
LQT is the ability to modify previous threads in a
Wikipedia-type approach - something many of the "founders"
are quite insistent upon. It is also widely tested and
implemented across multiple platforms.
I could use input and help in three areas (on the discussion
page
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:DiscussionThreading> of
course) :
1) Should this extension be deprecated in favor of LQT?
2) I've had at least one user tell me that in version MW
R1_11 there may be something funky with
wfLoadExtensionMessages loading the internationalisation file
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:DiscussionThread
ing/doc#Not_wo
rking_in_v11.0>. I don't have access to a R1_11 system, but
this doesn't seem to be a problem with 1.13 on. If you are
experiencing this problem, could you post on discussion so I
can update the installation instructions?
3) DiscussionThreading_Article has been moved to
Extension:DiscussionThreading/doc. Could someone with admin
privileges go in and delete this redirect page
<http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Extension:Discussi
onThread_Artic
le&redirect=no> so that it no longer appears
in the Extension matrix?
Thanks!
Jack D. Pond
"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us
strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich;
not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned;
and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us
integrity." -- Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626)
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