Hello. People have been asking for a while for a facility to let you just add a small comment to the bottom of a page. I knocked one up on Bob's test install: http://morerandomness.org.uk/openguides/wiki.cgi?action=random
See what you think, see if you can break it. All comments welcome. I'd like to add this to the next release.
Kake
Hi Kake,
Interesting idea. I tested it out and left some comments at: http://morerandomness.org.uk/openguides/wiki.cgi?South_Harrow_Station
Reproduced here for the record:
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South Harrow Station Edit this page Add a comment South Harrow Station
* Finding this place: (map) (gmap) (multimap) * Postcode: HA2
* Categories: Piccadilly Line, Tube * Locales: HA2, South Harrow
Zone 5 Tube station on the Piccadilly Line.
Comment added by TomH: I'm wondering what the difference is between a comment and just another page edit. How might I use them differently?
Comment added by Anonymous: Hmm, having added one and had a look at how it renders, I think the distinction between page content and comments needs to be clearer (visually and mentally). Are comments supposed to be value judgements, or just extra bits of data? Are they comments on the thing, or on the data about the thing?
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Cheers,
Tom.
On 13/05/07, Kake L Pugh kake@earth.li wrote:
Hello. People have been asking for a while for a facility to let you just add a small comment to the bottom of a page. I knocked one up on Bob's test install: http://morerandomness.org.uk/openguides/wiki.cgi?action=random
See what you think, see if you can break it. All comments welcome. I'd like to add this to the next release.
Kake
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On Thu 17 May 2007, Tom Heath tom.heath@gmail.com wrote:
Comment added by TomH: I'm wondering what the difference is between a comment and just another page edit. How might I use them differently?
Comment added by Anonymous: Hmm, having added one and had a look at how it renders, I think the distinction between page content and comments needs to be clearer (visually and mentally). Are comments supposed to be value judgements, or just extra bits of data? Are they comments on the thing, or on the data about the thing?
It's meant to be just a quicker way to add info to the page without having to understand the full edit form. The idea is that any info added via a comment can be refactored into the general page info by the next person with a bit of time on their hands.
Kake
On 17/05/07, Kake L Pugh kake@earth.li wrote:
It's meant to be just a quicker way to add info to the page without having to understand the full edit form. The idea is that any info added via a comment can be refactored into the general page info by the next person with a bit of time on their hands.
Yep. I like it. Perhaps if the person logged in has a username cookie set, their name could appear as a link to their user page?
Also, "Comment added by [Who]:" is a little ponderous, I think it would look a little nicer as "[Who] comments:". As to Tom's comments about being visually distinct, maybe we could wrap the whole thing in '' '' for italics.
On May 17, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Earle Martin wrote:
On 17/05/07, Kake L Pugh kake@earth.li wrote:
It's meant to be just a quicker way to add info to the page without having to understand the full edit form. The idea is that any info added via a comment can be refactored into the general page info by the next person with a bit of time on their hands.
Yep. I like it. Perhaps if the person logged in has a username cookie set, their name could appear as a link to their user page?
Also, "Comment added by [Who]:" is a little ponderous, I think it would look a little nicer as "[Who] comments:". As to Tom's comments about being visually distinct, maybe we could wrap the whole thing in '' '' for italics.
Kake is this controlled by a template? If not could it be?
-Chris
On 18/05/07, Chris Prather chris@prather.org wrote:
On May 17, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Earle Martin wrote:
Also, "Comment added by [Who]:" is a little ponderous, I think it would look a little nicer as "[Who] comments:". As to Tom's comments about being visually distinct, maybe we could wrap the whole thing in '' '' for italics.
Kake is this controlled by a template? If not could it be?
Good call - I don't see why not. The template could be read, processed and its contents appended to the page data.
On Thu 17 May 2007, Chris Prather chris@prather.org wrote:
Kake is this controlled by a template? If not could it be?
It isn't, but it certainly could be; great idea!
The code isn't quite ready to go into svn yet; it's being tested live on http://london.randomness.org.uk/ at the moment, and I'll mangle it into an svn-suitable version once it's had a bit more of a workout (already found one bug today).
Kake
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