User talk:Juttavd

Questions in regards to flagged revisions
[copied from my talk]

Hi, I would like to ask some questions in regards to flagged revisions. Is it correct that unregistered users will only see articles and article updates once they have passed the review process? We are just setting up a wiki for our organisation and need some good quality control. It would be great if you could let me know how it works. I find the documentation on mediawiki hard to understand...

Thanks, Juttavd (talk)


 * Yeah thats pretty much the jist of it. The documentation is more written from a technical perspective then a user perspective. Basically you can set it up in a number of ways, but the most common way is you have a group of users who are 'editors' (on wikinews special:listusers/editor) which can approve stuff. Anything an editor edits is automatically approved. Unregistered users can only see the latest approved (often referred to as 'sighted') revision. Logged in users can usually chose if they see latest version or latest approved. You can also configure on a per page basis if the latest version or latest reviewed version is shown. Hope that helps. If you have any more questions feel free to ask. Bawolff ☺☻ 06:06, 21 April 2010 (UTC)


 * The comments namespace is more of a hack then anything else. It does not use any extensions (well recently we've started to use mw:extension:LiquidThreads, but thats separate from the comments themselves). Basically we made a new custom namespace (ns 102), and then used javascript to create a new tab called opinions (with ajax to determine if the page exists or not). However I would personally reccomend not going the js route unless you have a good reason. There is mw:Extension:CommentPages which puts all our js hacks in php where they should be which is probably much better. (However i have never tried that extension, so i can't personally vouch for it). mw:Extension:ArticleComments is also an extension that sort of related and has a good reputation, and might be what you're looking for.