[Mediawiki-l] Incorporating blog-like "Comments"

[Morten Blaabjerg]

There's been several attempts at making Blog type extensions, take a look at 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_extensions
Although AFAIK there's nothing in the true vein of what you describe.

I've been looking for something similar, but in the end I just came to the 
conclusion that a wiki and a blog is two quite different things.

MediaWiki in particular was designed to split the content of a page and the 
discussion into two distinct pages. This has advantages, if you want to keep 
a distinction between "front end" and "back end" of the system. I've seen a 
lot of other wikis where everything is kept on the same page. In a sense, 
they are more true to the original wiki idea than MW, in that they keep 
process and content together in the same context, which makes things a lot 
simpler. MW has a lot of strength though, in making an informal page where 
"everything is allowed", as opposed to the "encyclopedic article" page where 
things has to be presented by the book. It all depends on the project.

If you want a blog, better go with a blog-friendly system. A blog-tool is 
great for getting a message out quickly and discussing it. A wiki is an 
incredibly strong collaborative working environment. Which do you want the 
more? There's no reason both couldn't coexist, using CSS and some kind of 
common structure.

Best wishes,
Morten :-)


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colleen Robledo" <colleenrobledo at gmail.com>
To: <mediawiki-l at wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:37 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Incorporating blog-like "Comments"


> Hello,
>
> I run an internal MediaWiki wiki for our company, and we're now looking at
> using the software to develop a public wiki for our customers.  What my
> future team of public wiki admins would like, however, is for each Article
> to include a blog-like Comments tool (comments form, and comments posts, 
> all
> on the Article page) to encourage public discussion of each Article.  They
> do not like the Discussion tab option because it breaks the conversation
> flow.
>
> Has anyone successfully used any type of plug-in for this type of feature?
> Or do you have other suggestions?
>
> The other side of this request, is that they would like anyone (not just
> registered users) to be able to Comment, and for those Comments to be able
> to sit in a moderation queue for approval.... in other words, exactly what
> blogs do with Comments.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -- 
> Colleen Robledo
> http://www.colleenrobledo.info
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