"Phil Boswell" wrote:
That looks very interesting, and kind of similar to an idea I had myself. I haven't seen the interface yet because I didn't bother creating an account and whilst IPs can view source on locked pages, they can't edit unlocked pages (which is an interesting way round to have it :-).
Yes, the same was to me. So i used the &action=raw instead of action=edit. It doesn't seem to send proper Conetn-Type but downloading is ok too.
They use special extensions Special:Newthread (not listed at specialpages) and probably the edit form is tweaked too.
They format it through several templates:
{{ForumThreadHeading|title|title}} {{ForumNewPost|UserID=Foo|Date=29 February 2006|Text= .......}} {{ForumReplyPost|UserID=Joe|Date=30 February 2006|Text=....}}
They seem to be using an extension to provide the "most recent discussions" view, sourced from a particular namespace JOINed with a given category.
Yes: <recentpages> namespace=Discussion |category=User_Introductions |limit=50 |template=DiscussionsOnIndex |top=sticky </recentpages>
I was wondering whether it would be possible to arrange that a given namespace could be set up to work like this from the ground up, rather than spatchcocking it into existing pages...
Sure.
I have no idea, for example, how they manage to prevent ordinary wikicode from messing up their nice orderly conversations. -- Phil
I guess they do it with the templates. Don't know wat would happen if we started writeng there invalid wiki syntax and closing the template mark. ;)