[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia blog moving to WordPress.com

[Andrew Gray]

Once we have Flow working well, then a Media-Wiki based public blog
with comments might actually be workable (and it'd be nice to have
comments mesh seamlessly with WM accounts).

However, that's still a year or two off - I don't think it's any
reason not to transfer the blog for now, assuming we can handle the
privacy issues that implies. We can always move back if we develop the
mediawiki magic bullet :-)

A.

On 8 September 2013 14:08, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 September 2013 13:16, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Because turning MediaWiki from a terrible blogging platform into a
>> good one (comment management and blog-style RSS at absolute minimum)
>> would be more work than even maintaining our own WordPress
>> installation.
>
>
>
> Chatting with Rupert about this just now, he pointed out that Wikinews
> does RSS just fine:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleNewsSitemap
>
> The URL is ugly (but that's why mod_rewrite exists):
>
> https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NewsFeed&feed=atom&categories=Published&notcategories=No%20publish|Archived|AutoArchived|disputed&namespace=0&count=30&hourcount=124&ordermethod=categoryadd&stablepages=only
>
> So that's that problem actually solved (and I thought that'd be the hard one).
>
> Comments remain a problem: LiquidThreads is unloved and largely
> unmaintained, and Flow is barely started.
>
>
> - d.
>
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