[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki as a "Knowledge Base"

[Gary Kirk]

You can simply use the Inputbox extension by AJB
(http://meta.wikimedia.org/Help:Inputbox) for the create an article
page you want.

This should address your first point.

-- gary kirk


On 7/26/06, Mike Edenfield <kutulu at kutulu.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to convince my company to use MediaWiki for our public
> knowledge base, and so far our test setup has been working well.
> However, I'm running into two major stumbling blocks, both of which seem
> to be inherent to how the Wiki works, and I'm hoping someone else has
> found solutions for them, or can at least help us do so.
>
> 1. Creating articles is someone unintuitive, since there is no "Create A
> New Article" page.  So far everyone that's added articles has know how
> to construct the proper URL, but we want to streamline the process a
> bit.  I'm pretty sure I can just write a new special page extension that
> does this automatically, but if anyone else has a similar and/or better
> solution, I'm all for it.
>
> 2. The bigger problem is with the search results.  Our articles were
> added to the wiki with their title being the knowledge base number.
> However, we want the search results to show both this number, and a
> "title" (which is usually the question or error the article is about).
> Right now, when someone searches for articles they only see the few
> lines of context around the search word, and this is often not enough to
> differentiate between similar articles.
>
> I have no problems writing code to make these things happen, and
> submitting it back to the community.  (I've already cleared this with my
> employer.)  But I also don't want to rush into mediawiki coding blind,
> and what I want to do seems beyond the scope of most tutorials.  I've
> read up on creating extensions, and creating your own markup, but I
> suspect I will need to make big changes to the existing pages, possibly
> even the database schema, to achieve everything we need.
>
> I'm hoping someone else has done something similar, and can either
> direct us where to find and install it, or at least point me in the
> right direction for writing it myself.
>
> --Mike
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-- 
Gary Kirk