-----Original Message-----
From: Jack D. Pond [mailto:jack.pond@psitex.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 09:08 PM
To: ''MediaWiki announcements and site admin list''
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki Enhancement for Discussion Threading
Many of my developers and project managers like threading for discussions.
In order to get greater adoption, I've developed an extension/patch that
makes the discussion page look like the archives of a listserv. Don't know
if this is even worth consideration, but in the spirit of openness thought I
would throw it out. If there's time and interest, I'll clean it up and make
it generally available - right now it's very experimental - although we're
using it here in production.
I've posted this highly experimental patch/extension at
http://www.mediawiki.org/Wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading
<http://www.mediawiki.org/Wiki/Extension:DiscussionThreading>
This extension implements a discussion threading process. This threading
will only be seen on the talk pages, unless explicitly invoked in the
command line.
It adds a [reply] link on the header line. Each time a new posting is
entered or a posting is replied to, the comment will automatically be tagged
(and appear in the TOC too). Of course direct editing can occur, but this
really makes it a lot easier to organize discussions in a threading view
that most are familiar with.
To do (if there's enough interest):
1. Internationalize
2. get someone who knows regex to clean up the parsing of the subject
line
3. Assess to see if there's an easier way to do this - I've probably
screwed it up royally.
Montgomery County Shield <http://www.montcopa.org/> Jack D. Pond
CIO, Montgomery County, PA
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
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