On Sunday, 6th August 2006 at 11:26:16 (GMT -0700), Bill Taylor wrote:
[...] how about articles that become the primary
responsibility
of a single editor. [...] A reader coming to the article could
immediately see who wrote what [...]
I was thinking along similar lines for another wiki I'll be setting up
next year or so. Just as you suggest, I'd like to have one main editor
responsible for each webpage -- by default, the editor who created
the page.
My idea of differentiating the contributions was a bit less demanding
than yours: for my purpose, it would be enough if the contributions
of the main editor on a page would display in the default text color
(say, black), while the contributions of any other editor would be
displayed in another color (say, navy).
That way, you could see at a glance which sections of the page were
created by the main editor and which sections of the page by all other
editors. (For my purpose, it would be enough to differentiate between
the main editor and all other editors. It would not be necessary
to differentiate between individual secondary editors.)
As you, I intend to make heavy use of footnotes on that wiki's pages;
but unlike you, I'd allow any editor to edit any section of the main
text or add any footnote, as long as such modifications are
differentiated, in color, from the main editor's text or footnotes.
Of course, should the main editor of the page accept a proposed
solution from a secondary editor, he could make the text of that
proposed modification display in the default page color (black)
rather than in navy.
If there is a way to arrange for this in MediaWiki to occur
automatically, I have no idea. It would be huge help. The effect
I need could be achieved by employing a tedious workaround:
make the default text color of the wiki navy, while the main editor
would always wrap his or her contributions in <div class="m"> text
</div> tags, while div.m would be defined in the wiki's CSS file
as text displayed in black color.
DUH! It would be a horribly amateurish way to go about it, and
a big nuisance for the main editor to have to use those <div> tags
all the time, but it currently seems to be the only solution...
Wonder if there's a better way.
--
Yours,
Alex.
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