Rajko, 2009/12/10 Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net>:
On Wednesday 09 December 2009 04:12:58 Rupert Horstkötter wrote: ...
Rajko, is FlaggedRevs able to provide an RSS feed for draft revisions? Kim, is vBulletin (i.e. the RSS grabber you have) able to use this FlaggedRevs RSS feed and post corresponding threads at the Wiki forum?
I have to check that, but I suspect the answer will be no. It is either buried in Mediawiki itself as option, like the existing one, with email reports on page changes, or it requires extension.
That's unfortunate. Seems that I got you wrong in the transition meeting. I thought the "email reports" you mention would have been a RSS feed.
We mentioned idea last night, and I just checked functionality of SimpleFeed extension. It is just input method, the same as Forums feed grabber, as mentioned in Kim's mail.
On the other hand, manually linking article, that one wants to be reviewed can be option too if there is no other tools available, but even that option requires working wiki with FlaggedRevs, so that we can check what link to provide in the forum post.
Sure manually linking is also possible. Question is how to encourage people to do this. On the other hand the sole motivation to get his article flagged as "quality" should be at least some kind of motivation for the editor to kickoff the reviewing for his article at forums.o.o manually. If he do not the article will just remain as a "Draft" .. if we need to go for the manual approach we should define the reviewing as a requirement to get a "Quality" flag. That said, I'd still appreciate to have the "automagical" method.
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Lots of questions and hopefully the start of a fruitful discussion. Let's brainstorm and come up with something really awesome for the sake of the openSUSE community. Your turn gentlemen ...
We have to think on communication capabilities of software and people. Overloading forums with potentially hundreds of automatically generated articles, what that brings?
It ensures the utilization of the reviewing process. I doubt it would be hundreds of threads cause as I said we just want to have threads for "Distro documentation pages", i.e. pages that are interesting for the enduser, not every crap we have in the wiki. If RSS turns out to be possible in the end .. couldn't we configure the RSS to just output new drafts in main namespace and leave all team pages, meeting logs etc etc apart?
Maybe manual selection can do better job, where we present articles that really need review of many people that should be their users. The fact is that from that process wiki team will learn what is asked for and direct future articles in that direction.
Yeah! Let's investigate the abilities we have on the table and then make a decision about the best approach. Please let think about other possibilities we may investigate besides the RSS approach. Isn't there a kind of bridge between vBulletin and MediaWiki available? Or if not, are we able to code something by ourselves? Pseudocode: if [new draft in monitored namespace] && [thread doesn't exist yet] then create thread elif [particular thread does exist already] then re-open existing thread and update draft URL fi Best, R
Best, R
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