Erik Moeller wrote:
Ashar-
Developpers and wikifarm administrators will be
able to post lengthy
articles about the various things happening. Be it new servers added to
the farm, new features being developped or polling the user base to help
us make choices.
I strongly believe that MediaWiki should support chronological display of
content blocks. Essentially, you would have something like
{{News:5 new abstracts}}
which would insert summaries of the 5 most recently created pages from the
News: namespace in reverse chronological order + link to talk page. This
could be done with any existing namespace. (The abstracts would have to
somehow marked up in the source page, e.g. using <abstract></abstract>.)
What about updates? This could be solved through the minor/major edit
flags. Minor edits do not affect the sort order, while major edits push a
story to the top.
Add in a "Post new entry" link that creates a page in the desired
namespace, and you've got a nice wikiblog. For Wikinews I think some more
advanced workflow will be necessary, but for what you are proposing this
should be enough.
So I strongly suggest hacking on something like this instead of installing
a blog software. Blogs are a dime a dozen and do not make good use of the
potential of collaboration.
Regards,
Erik
Helo,
Of course it's possible to hack MediaWiki further more. But I believe
it's far easier to install a blog software, have it ready and set up in
like 10 minutes.
The aim of the blog will not aim at building a cooperative content,
that's what wiki is for. Instead it will help easily publish important
messages from the dev/admin team to the userbase be it maintenance, new
releases, ongoing changes available on
test.wikipedia.org .
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Ashar Voultoiz