[Mediawiki-l] Re: blog extension

[John Yu]

François,

Will your extension work for pages in namespaces other than the main 
one? I'm interested to try it out, but I keep our blog-oriented entries 
in custom namespace.

Thanks.
--
John

FxParlant wrote:

> John Yu wrote:
>
>> Hi François,
>>
>> I don't quite follow what it does. Could you elaborate?
>
>
> Sure:-)
>
> I create a page, with just a quote (for example a line from 
> wittgenstein or Lacan). I surround the words, the important concepts 
> with double [[ ]] to make them links to pages. I also make sure that 
> the name of the book are links, and I add a category (Category:Quote)
>
> Then, on the page Wittgenstein, I add this little line
> <blog>page=Wittgenstein;cat=Quote</blog>
>
> And, surprise, all the quotes with a link to Wittgenstein will appear 
> in the Wittgenstein page: not just a link to the quotes, but the 
> quotes themselves.
>
> So, I add just once a quote, but it will appear in all the linked 
> concept, in the author page, and in the book page (if I want to)
>
>> By the way, I saw on your wiki that you have a [comment] link next to 
>> each section. That's a nice touch. Would you mind explain how to add 
>> that? (I suppose it involves some php hacking.)
>
>
> Your are right, this link is from php, and it just links to the 
> discussion page of every (quote)page.
>
> But you can hack this without any php, just I do on my Main_Page, in 
> the "image of the day" : I just add a link to the talkpage of the image:
> [[Image_talk:Signorelli_Judgement.jpg|Commentaires...]]
>
>
>> thanks,
>
>
> You'are welcome
>
> François
>
>> -- 
>> John
>>
>>
>> FxParlant wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I've made a little clumsy extension to help aggregating quotes: so 
>>> that a quote appears in all the pages it links to.
>>>
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fxparlant/Blog
>>>
>>> Please do use of the discussion page to comment and help me correct 
>>> it :-)
>>>
>>> To see a first version of its use :
>>>
>>> http://www.fxparlant.net/Lacan_S1
>>> Scroll down after the dates list, and you'll see an aggregation of 
>>> notes, with links for pages and comments (some of these pages are 
>>> themself aggregations)
>>>
>>>
>>> François
>>>
>
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