Hi Tom,
I guess the Semantic MediaWiki extensions might be able to realise
what you have in mind. You would add a [[Category:Issue]] to each
page and a [[status:=open]] or [[status:=pending]] or
[[status:=closed]]. On the main page you can
<ask>[[Category:Issue]][[status:=open]]</ask>
to get a list of open issues.
Come to
http://www.ontoworld.org and take a look a a running
MediaWiki with Semantic MediaWiki installed.
Kind regards,
Max Völkel
--
Dipl.-Inform. Max Völkel, Universität Karlsruhe / FZI
nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org
voelkel(a)fzi.de +49 721 9654-854
www.xam.de
Friday, September 1, 2006, 10:07:25 PM, you wrote:
Hi, I've used quite a few wikis in the past but am
new to MediaWiki. Any help
you can give me with my question would be greatly appreciated.
I am migrating my MoinMoin wiki to MediaWiki. The
main reason that I use the
MoinMoin wiki is because I have thrown together a rudimentary issue tracker
within it. Here's basically how it works:
* Each "ticket" is represented by a single
wiki page that uses a
particular prefix in its name
* Each ticket contains tags that denote its status, which is something like
this:
* StatusOpen
* StatusClosed
* StatusPendingDefect
* The main page for this issue tracker, which is itself a wiki page, contains
macros that allow me to display a "dashboard" of every single ticket based on
its status. Here's basically what it looks like:
Browse Issues
=============
Open Issues
-----------
1. IssueTracker/This Is Issue A
2. IssueTracker/This Is Issue B
Pending Defect
--------------
1. IssueTracker/This is yet another issue
Closed Issues
-------------
1. IssueTracker/Thank goodness that there are closed issues
* This dashboard view is dynamic. If I create a new
wiki page prefaced by
"IssueTracker/" and tag it with "StatusOpen", it will automatically
appear
under the "Open Issues" header.
This page is not available on the internet, but I
basically ripped it off
from
the
http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinBugs page.
So my first question is, is there a plugin like this
available for MediaWiki
with which anyone is familiar?
If not, then I have a second question. I was able to
implement all of this
(which ain't too bad in my opinion) using the concept of MoinMoin macros,
which
are executable functions that you can embed in a wiki page. Is there similar
functionality available within MediaWiki?
Thanks in advance for all of the help!
Tom Purl