wiki blog
From Petr Sladek
Using wiki engine as a blog is cool.
Petr Sladek modified wikipedia's wiki engine called wikimedia to be used as a blog engine on his blog.
If you want to know the inner workings, read on.
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Configuration magic
Some amazing things can be done simply in the wiki configuration file LocalSettings.php.
First Letter of Articles in Lower Case or Upper Case
Petr Sladek did not want to have the first letter of every page to be in uppercase.
This behavior is controlled by function ucfirst from includes/parser/CoreParserFunctions.php file that is called from many places.
This also depends namespace by namespace (like Help, Category, File, or so called "Main"). The "Talk" pages need to directly mirror their associated content namespaces, the values for those are ignored.
Administrator can set the upper casing different in every name space. This is controlled by two variables $wgCapitalLinks and $wgCapitalLinkOverrides which are arrays.
So Petr Sladek added:
$wgCapitalLinkOverrides[0] = false;
To LocalSettings.php and it worked. In this case, 0 means the main space.
Blog naming convetions
To be compatible with ordinary blogs, Petr Sladek had to do some naming changes:
- renaming pages to articles
- renaming talk pages to comments
- renaming categories to tags
Wiki Blog Skin
CSS style
hooks:
generating HTML output:
ToDo
top menu:
Page name as a link
ToDo
Discussion editing
comments:wiki_blog/20120521052107&action=edit§ion=new
Image Box
ToDo
404 page
Petr Sladek designed a 404 page to be displayed instead of a missing page.
