Team, Rajko and I are assigned to find a solution for the FlaggedRevs/Wiki-Forum combination. I decided to post the progress of AI3 to the list as everyone interested can join the discussion at any time and help the assignees that way. Kim Groneman (Admin of the OSF) and Jon Rocker (Local Mod for the Wiki Forum and interested person in this AI3) explicitly is in CC: So what are we trying to achieve (as a background for Kim)? We'll use FlaggedRevs MediaWiki extension in combination with the Wiki Forum at forums.o.o as our QA flagship for the new (good) openSUSE wiki. FlaggedRevs provides the opportunity to flag certain articles as "Quality revision", i.e. as approved documentation while providing "Draft revisions" in parallel .. the "Quality revision" is the one shown the user by default (Drafts are accessible by clicking a link at the top right of the page). Utilizing this extension we'd like to achieve a reviewing/approval process for new articles (initially flagged as Draft) as well as major edits (flagged as draft until a wiki team member approves it and replaces the "Quality revision" with the new draft) and for that we'd like to use the Wiki forum. I hope this is clear so far? Please ask if it's not. We now have two scenarios on the table: 1. There is a brand new article created by an editor and this is flagged as draft initially. That draft revision should now have a corresponding discussion thread at the wiki forum where the community can review the article and provide feedback. Over time we hope that this process improves the article and provides the editor the opportunity to fine-tune. After some period of time, the draft gets approved (flagged as quality) and is presented as such to the reader. 2. We already have an article and some editor get started to write a new draft revision .. FlaggedRevs always automatically creates new Draft revisions of Quality articles whenever an edit occurs. This new draft is a potential candidate to replace the quality revision IF it passes the reviewing process at forums.o.o and is considered as a valid evolution by the wiki team. That said, our task now is to find out how we can "automagically" create threads in the wiki forum whenever FlaggedRevs detects a new draft (be it due to scenario 1 or 2). We doubt that simply encouraging editors to use the wiki forum as a proofreading platform wouldn't lead to expected results and thus we'd value an automatism. Jon Rocker (in CC:) came up with a rather good and simple idea yesterday on IRC and I thought about it. What about utilizing the forums RSS grabber "forumsadmin" for this? This bot does, afaik, RSS grabbing from various sources and post an abstract at "Tech News" category at the OSF. 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? Some further questions IF that turns out to be possible: - May we put a wiki-template "A discussion thread has been created at <forums URL>" on top of the particular draft revision? Can this be done "automagically" and how? - How should we deal with duplicates? E.g. someone creates a brand new article, the reviewing is done, the article is flagged quality and after some time a major edit (new draft) occurs. Is there any way to just re-open the existing thread at forums.o.o instead of creating a new one (by RSS) or does this need to be done manually by wiki forum moderators? - How can we restrict the creation of discussion threads to enduser-relevant pages at the openSUSE Wiki? Is FlaggedRevs maybe able to output the RSS feed just for selected namespaces or may we hack that together (a subset of the default RSS) and provide just the drafts in interesting namespaces to "forumsadmin" RSS grabber? 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 ... Best, R -- Rupert Horstkötter openSUSE Community Assistant http://en.opensuse.org/User:Rhorstkoetter Email: rhorstkoetter@opensuse.org Jabber: ruperthorstkoetter@googlemail.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-wiki+help@opensuse.org