[Mediawiki-l] [ANN] MediaWiki as a weblog, and calendaring.

Sun Aug 14 14:43:17 UTC 2005

Sweet.   I hope you can showcase more of the customization options in
your own MW blog... and that other examples pop up as well.  I don't
know that MW is the ideal blogging platform (recent case in point: the
recent Wikimania blog [1]) but it's good that you are touching on
issues of transcluding and summarizing articles in various formats. 
This is useful for a calendar or blogpost-overview, but also more
broadly for articles and timelines of varying levels of detail.  A
timeline of human history[2], for instance, might need more than a few
different levels.

SJ

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania:Blog
[2] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Workshop-EZ1

On 8/14/05, Bass, Joshua L <joshua.l.bass at lmco.com> wrote:
> That is amazing! We need more people doing things like this. I am going
> to play with what you have done.
> 
> 
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> 
> I have completed two projects which can now intermingle.
> 
> I designed a simple set of templates to allow weblog-style articles --
> namely for permanent links and discussion.
> 
> Also, borrowing ideas from existing calendar templating, I created a
> series of templates which interact to generate a calendar.
> 
> The weblogging stuff is pretty simple.  Here are the calendar features:
> 
> *  Per-cell display customizing. Display the number one, or something
> else like an image.
> 
> * Per-calendar overall calendar styles. Colour your calendar different,
> choose different layouts.. whatever.
> 
> * Per-calendar link generation. No links, links to calendars.. link
> generation can also be different depending on the cell in the calendar.
> 1 is different than 2 and can have a different kind of link generated
> for it.
> 
> This means that I can:
> 
> * create a plain calendar for August 2005.
> * create a calendar for August 2005 which is styled differently --
> colours, date positions etc.
> * create a calendar for August 2005 where each link points to a page
> unique to that day.
> 
> I haven't bothered to extend the  month-shaping templates beyond
> June/July/August[1] yet, since there are 28 of them, but the'll all get
> done in due time.
> 
> [1] August 2005 is 31 days beginning on monday, June 2005 is 30 days
> beginning on wednesday.. every combination needs to have a template made
> for it.
> 
> 
> All of this is probably more easily done with extensions, but I decided
> to use MediaWiki's existing templating functionality.
> 
> it all works for me.  I took the time to document things so that the
> next person who comes along will hopefully have a lot of help.
> 
> 
> When my site's not down, the relevant links are:
> 
> http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/MediaWiki_as_a_weblog
> http://jrandomhacker.info/mw/index.php/MediaWiki_calendar_templating
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