Many of my developers and project managers like threading for discussions. In order to get greater adoption, I've developed an extension/patch that makes the discussion page look like the archives of a listserv. Don't know if this is even worth consideration, but in the spirit of openness thought I would throw it out. If there's time and interest, I'll clean it up and make it generally available - right now it's very experimental - although we're using it here in production.
I've posted this highly experimental patch/extension at http://www.mediawiki.org/Wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading http://www.mediawiki.org/Wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading
This extension implements a discussion threading process. This threading will only be seen on the talk pages, unless explicitly invoked in the command line.
It adds a [reply] link on the header line. Each time a new posting is entered or a posting is replied to, the comment will automatically be tagged (and appear in the TOC too). Of course direct editing can occur, but this really makes it a lot easier to organize discussions in a threading view that most are familiar with.
To do (if there's enough interest):
1. Internationalize 2. get someone who knows regex to clean up the parsing of the subject line 3. Assess to see if there's an easier way to do this - I've probably screwed it up royally.
Montgomery County Shield http://www.montcopa.org/ Jack D. Pond CIO, Montgomery County, PA
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Apologies, my spell checker capitalized the URL. It should have been:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading
Jack D. Pond
"Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess." -- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill(1874-1965)
I (being older :) actually like the visual a threaded display gives you. Interesting hack.
We would be happy to be a secondary test if you would like.
DSig David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation PICK Guy 206-770-5585 davesigafoos@sanmar.com
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jack D. Pond Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 20:09 To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki Enhancement for Discussion Threading
Many of my developers and project managers like threading for discussions. In order to get greater adoption, I've developed an extension/patch that makes the discussion page look like the archives of a listserv. Don't know if this is even worth consideration, but in the spirit of openness thought I would throw it out. If there's time and interest, I'll clean it up and make it generally available - right now it's very experimental - although we're using it here in production.
I've posted this highly experimental patch/extension at http://www.mediawiki.org/Wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading http://www.mediawiki.org/Wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading
This extension implements a discussion threading process. This threading will only be seen on the talk pages, unless explicitly invoked in the command line.
It adds a [reply] link on the header line. Each time a new posting is entered or a posting is replied to, the comment will automatically be tagged (and appear in the TOC too). Of course direct editing can occur, but this really makes it a lot easier to organize discussions in a threading view that most are familiar with.
To do (if there's enough interest):
1. Internationalize 2. get someone who knows regex to clean up the parsing of the subject line 3. Assess to see if there's an easier way to do this - I've probably screwed it up royally.
Montgomery County Shield http://www.montcopa.org/ Jack D. Pond CIO, Montgomery County, PA
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
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