There's been several attempts at making Blog type extensions, take a look at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_extensions
Although AFAIK there's nothing in the true vein of what you describe.
I've been looking for something similar, but in the end I just came to the
conclusion that a wiki and a blog is two quite different things.
MediaWiki in particular was designed to split the content of a page and the
discussion into two distinct pages. This has advantages, if you want to keep
a distinction between "front end" and "back end" of the system.
I've seen a
lot of other wikis where everything is kept on the same page. In a sense,
they are more true to the original wiki idea than MW, in that they keep
process and content together in the same context, which makes things a lot
simpler. MW has a lot of strength though, in making an informal page where
"everything is allowed", as opposed to the "encyclopedic article" page
where
things has to be presented by the book. It all depends on the project.
If you want a blog, better go with a blog-friendly system. A blog-tool is
great for getting a message out quickly and discussing it. A wiki is an
incredibly strong collaborative working environment. Which do you want the
more? There's no reason both couldn't coexist, using CSS and some kind of
common structure.
Best wishes,
Morten :-)
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Morten Blaabjerg / Crews Cut Production
http://morten.crewscut.com
morten(a)crewscut.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colleen Robledo" <colleenrobledo(a)gmail.com>
To: <mediawiki-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 10:37 PM
Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Incorporating blog-like "Comments"
Hello,
I run an internal MediaWiki wiki for our company, and we're now looking at
using the software to develop a public wiki for our customers. What my
future team of public wiki admins would like, however, is for each Article
to include a blog-like Comments tool (comments form, and comments posts,
all
on the Article page) to encourage public discussion of each Article. They
do not like the Discussion tab option because it breaks the conversation
flow.
Has anyone successfully used any type of plug-in for this type of feature?
Or do you have other suggestions?
The other side of this request, is that they would like anyone (not just
registered users) to be able to Comment, and for those Comments to be able
to sit in a moderation queue for approval.... in other words, exactly what
blogs do with Comments.
Thank you!
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Colleen Robledo
http://www.colleenrobledo.info
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