[Wikinews-l] Wikinewsie

[brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org]

I need technical help for some of this - and am quite busy on other
things. ;-)

Based on previous ramblings - there's the following:

- The Editors' Blog is running an out-of-date version of WordPress, the
'click here to update' is broke, so it'd probably be better just
extracting the database, starting from a fresh WordPress install and
loading the data into that.

- We need a 'proper' WordPress skin, one that doesn't involve hacks into
the core WordPress install. My thoughts on that are to have something in
keeping with the MediaWiki Vector skin/scheme. [Also, should take into
account the look/feel of the enwp main page and articles (from articles:
the {{Social bookmarking}} template).

- I don't think Vector has been released as a ready-to-go MediaWiki
skin, files are available, but implementing the skin is a little bit of
hacking.

Can't think of anything else, perhaps someone can suggest ways/api
features that would allow pulling data out of the Public: namespace on
the Wikinewsie wiki to go into more static pages outwith the wiki. Like
pulling out only the html-formatted content as happens on-wiki with a
template inclusion.


Brian


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Wikinews-l] Wikinewsie
> From: Tristan Thomas <tris at waterhay.co.uk>
> Date: Thu, October 08, 2009 3:41 pm
> To: Wikinews mailing list <wikinews-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> 
> 
> So with the basic ideas discussed of a few separate blogs, how do we
> progress?  Brian, do you want to do it or would you like a team effort?
> 
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