I just started admining a mediawiki on an intranet, and already my users are asking about support for blogs. Doing a quick search, all I found was this, which isn't that useful:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_and_Blogs
and I found this extension:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fxparlant/Blog
but I don't think that is exactly what my users are looking for (I mean, that extension is almost misnamed). Or maybe I don't understand it that well.
Some of the more bloated wikis seem to have some suppport, but there is a reason I didn't choose them - they were too bloated! I like the simple and sleek look of mediawiki.
I know users can create/edit pages, (for instance, top post to a weekly page (or daily page) etc.), but is there something or some technique that might be a little more automated for posting? If it's not easy, they won't use it (comparing it to blogger), and just complain!
thanks bob
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b h wrote in gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki:
I just started admining a mediawiki on an intranet, and already my users are asking about support for blogs.
possibly i'm missing the point here, but why do you want to put a blog on a wiki? if enough of your users want that, it's almost certainly a better choice to install proper software that's designed for it, rather than trying to hack it into something that was really never meant to work that way.
(and if you want to support RSS, Atom, ... it's going to involve a lot more than just allowing people to post at the top of a page automatically.)
thanks bob
kate.
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b h wrote in gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki:
I just started admining a mediawiki on an
intranet,
and already my users are asking about support for blogs.
possibly i'm missing the point here, but why do you want to put a blog on a wiki? if enough of your users want that, it's almost certainly a better choice to install proper software that's designed for it, rather than trying to hack it into something that was really never meant to work that way.
Yes, I agree, it's not the exact tool for the job, but I guess I was just looking for a good way to integrate that functionality and to keep the consistent look and feel. So I suppose the only option is to install wordpress I guess. I know this is slightly getting off topic, but now I guess people will have to maintain two user accounts or does some of the authentication information pass through to some sort of blog software such as wordpress?
(and if you want to support RSS, Atom, ... it's going to involve a lot more than just allowing people to post at the top of a page automatically.)
thanks bob
kate.
thanks bob
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b h wrote in gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki:
--- Kate Turner keturner@livejournal.com wrote:
b h wrote in gmane.org.wikimedia.mediawiki:
I just started admining a mediawiki on an intranet, and already my users are asking about support for blogs.
possibly i'm missing the point here, but why do you want to put a blog on a wiki? if enough of your users want that, it's almost certainly a better choice to install proper software that's designed for it,
Yes, I agree, it's not the exact tool for the job, but I guess I was just looking for a good way to integrate that functionality and to keep the consistent look and feel.
i managed to make a monobook (mediawik) style for LJ in about half an hour; the design of the skin makes it pretty trivial to wrap around any kind of content. it shouldn't be hard to do something similar with wordpress, MT, or whatever.
So I suppose the only option is to install wordpress I guess. I know this is slightly getting off topic, but now I guess people will have to maintain two user accounts or does some of the authentication information pass through to some sort of blog software such as wordpress?
mediawiki supports AuthPlugins, which let you authenticate users from some external source (such as another web application). i'm not really familiar with the details, but the mailing list archives[1] should have some examples. most of them are for web forum softare, but there shouldn't be too much difference using it with a blog.
alternatively, the other software may support a similar thing, in which case you could make it authenticate from MediaWiki's user database.
thanks bob
kate.
here is my plugin
http://www.fxparlant.net/Blog.php
If you need help, just email me.
François
b h wrote:
I just started admining a mediawiki on an intranet, and already my users are asking about support for blogs. Doing a quick search, all I found was this, which isn't that useful:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews_and_Blogs
and I found this extension:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fxparlant/Blog
but I don't think that is exactly what my users are looking for (I mean, that extension is almost misnamed). Or maybe I don't understand it that well.
Some of the more bloated wikis seem to have some suppport, but there is a reason I didn't choose them - they were too bloated! I like the simple and sleek look of mediawiki.
I know users can create/edit pages, (for instance, top post to a weekly page (or daily page) etc.), but is there something or some technique that might be a little more automated for posting? If it's not easy, they won't use it (comparing it to blogger), and just complain!
thanks bob
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On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:27:00PM -0700, b h wrote:
and I found this extension: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fxparlant/Blog
but I don't think that is exactly what my users are looking for (I mean, that extension is almost misnamed). Or maybe I don't understand it that well.
I've just created a small Mediawiki extension to include PlanetPlanet (http://www.planetplanet.org) powered feed aggregates for Wikicompany.
There are currently two feeds online: http://www.wikicompany.org/wiki/Wikicompany:Planet_Wikicompany http://www.wikicompany.org/wiki/Wikicompany:Planet_Science Feeds category: http://www.wikicompany.org/wiki/Category:Planets
The plan is to have more good (freely accessable and from the source) feeds related to companies/sectors/regions in the future.
I need to do some CSS work on the pages and templates, to make it look better, but it is a start.
I'm also planning on taking the feeds in the Planet configs from the Wiki (to make the feed channel configuration available to the editors), but I have other things to do first.
PlanetPlanet is easy to setup, but if you have questions, let me know.
regards,
Jama Poulsen
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 02:35:13PM +0200, Jama Poulsen wrote:
I've just created a small Mediawiki extension to include PlanetPlanet (http://www.planetplanet.org) powered feed aggregates for Wikicompany.
Doh. Download here: http://debianlinux.net/wikicompany/
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