[Mediawiki-l] Showing new articles

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Hi Bruce, it sounds interesting! See http://sextapoetica.com.br  It is  
a poetry wiki from Wikimedia Brasil, the brasilian WMF chapter. What's  
your wiki url?
Hugs

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Em 13/09/2010, às 03:41, Bruce Whealton  
<bwhealton at futurewavedesigns.com> escreveu:

> Hello all,
>   Ok, if I start encouraging people to create articles, they will want
> to see that their articles can be found and read by others.  I added a
> box from the CreateArticle extension, which makes it easy to create a
> new article.  The problem is that for people who aren't sold on wiki's
> yet, in my community of users, they won't see the new article  
> showing up
> as a link or anything.  When you go to the front page you don't have  
> any
> kind of link that shows every page.  Should I add a link that shows  
> the
> most recent pages?
>    I know that ideally new pages are linked to from other pages.  With
> the CreateArticle extension that won't happen, necessarily.  One just
> creates a new article. What's a best practice for sharing all the
> pages/articles that are part of a wiki site?  For a new site, it is
> reasonable to show every single page for a while, until that list gets
> too long.
>    I do need to learn more about Categories... but I'm not even sure  
> if
> the intention is to create some kind of list, like a menu, or list of
> links that include all the pages in a category... and if that is even
> the case, if a user creates a page but doesn't put it in a category it
> won't show up in any listing by category.  Sure, you might show all
> uncategorized articles but that will eventually become less useful as
> the list grows.
>        Tips, suggestions, guidance, please?  This has been  confusing
> me for some time...  I have a  poetry site and thought it would be  
> cool
> to have a wiki about words, language, communication, writing and
> meaning.  I need to be able to think in terms of how wikis present  
> users
> with information about all the articles in a site.
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Bruce
>
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