[Mediawiki-l] Showing new articles

[James Lucktaylor]

Hi Bruce,

I use DynamicPageList[1] on my Main Page to show users a top 10 of recent edits.
You could do multiple lists for different categories/namespaces, sort by last edit/create timestamp/etc, all sorts of options.
The only thing about it that I'm a little iffy on, is that to get the list to refresh, I have to do a cache purge of the Main Page, via a cron job on the server running wget with POST action=purge every so often.
If there's a more elegant solution than this, which there almost definitely is, I'd like to hear it. :)

Hope this helps,
James

[1]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList_(Wikimedia)

-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Whealton
Sent: Monday, 13 September 2010 4:41 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Showing new articles

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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