On 8/18/07, David McCabe <davemccabe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So, just out of curiosity, how far along is this
project? We'd
definitely
like to add it once it's ready to wikiHow. I recall, but could be
totally
wrong, seeing a demo that was farther along than this one last year at
Wikimania. Is that demo still available?
No, that demo sucked and was built with scotch tape.
With this version, we've upgraded to duct tape!
Speaking of duct tape, until liquidthreads becomes live/default, I
have a quick javascript hack to offer.
Screenshot (sorry, in German, but you get the idea;-)
http://magnusmanske.de/wikipedia/Demodiskussion.png
SOurce:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Magnus_Manske/ED.js
It removes the TOC from discussion pages, replaces <h2> and the
section until the next <h2> with grey bars showing the former <h2>
title. It also extracts all date-like text from each section and shows
it in the grey bar (so you know what date range that "thread" was).
You can expand and collapse the bars to show/hide the actual thread,
individually or for the whole page. You can also invert the order of
the discussions (to put "newest first").
Inverted sorting can be done by default, as well as automatically
expanding the newest X threads.
My 2c,
Magnus
