"Phil Boswell" wrote:
That looks very interesting, and kind of similar to an
idea I had myself.
I
haven't seen the interface yet because I didn't bother creating an account
and whilst IPs can view source on locked pages, they can't edit unlocked
pages (which is an interesting way round to have it :-).
Yes, the same was to me.
So i used the &action=raw instead of action=edit.
It doesn't seem to send proper Conetn-Type but downloading is ok too.
They use special extensions Special:Newthread (not listed at specialpages)
and probably the edit form is tweaked too.
They format it through several templates:
{{ForumThreadHeading|title|title}}
{{ForumNewPost|UserID=Foo|Date=29 February 2006|Text= .......}}
{{ForumReplyPost|UserID=Joe|Date=30 February 2006|Text=....}}
They seem to be using an extension to provide the
"most recent
discussions"
view, sourced from a particular namespace JOINed with a given category.
Yes:
<recentpages>
namespace=Discussion
|category=User_Introductions
|limit=50
|template=DiscussionsOnIndex
|top=sticky
</recentpages>
I was wondering whether it would be possible to
arrange that a given
namespace could be set up to work like this from the ground up, rather
than
spatchcocking it into existing pages...
Sure.
I have no idea, for example, how they
manage to prevent ordinary wikicode from messing up their nice orderly
conversations.
--
Phil
I guess they do it with the templates. Don't know wat would happen if we
started writeng there invalid wiki syntax and closing the template mark. ;)