I just wanted to announce the release of two new widgets which make our wikis run much smoother.
http://sourceforge.net/project/mediawiki-agora
The categoryeditor widget allows users to view the existing categories while editing the page, and automatically inserts/removes the Category tags into the text area when the add/remove buttons are clicked.
http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=130663&ssid=2007...
The categorysearch special page allows users to query the db for any/all articles associated with those categories. http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=130663&ssid=2007...
Neither of these widgets are very useful for the wikipedia itself, since it has far to many categories, and the in-out widget does not currently scale that well, but for small-medium size wikis we have found these widgets to be very helpful.
Is the best place to announce this tool?
BTW - the mediawiki-agora is a sourceforge project modeled on the Plone Collective. It is intended as a repository for an assortment of useful mw extensions that have no permanent home elsewhere. If anyone else has any projects they would like to throw in the mix, please contact me and i will add you as a developer.
Enjoy, /Jonah
Jonah Bossewitch schrieb:
I just wanted to announce the release of two new widgets which make our wikis run much smoother.
I had a quick look at the category editor because that's a feature my users have requested too. I see some major problems with your implementation which lead to me not installing them in my live wikis. * I see that code from MediaWiki classes is duplicated, which makes maintenance hard for you as well as for the people using your extension. * MediaWiki extensions should use MediaWiki CSS for continuity. Your extension looks really bad in a non standard skin because it doesn't respect the "standard" MediaWiki CSS classes. Have a look at other special pages. * You don't use the MediaWiki message system, so your output is always English. * Patching is always a harder pain than just copying files. Is it somehow possible to remove the necessity for patching index.php?
Do you see chances for improving that in future versions?
Ciao, Michael.
BTW: The install.txt doesn't match the necessary installation steps.
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