Forum-like presentation of the discussions in the wiki

[kynikos]

Forum-like presentation of the discussions in the wiki (imported from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Kynikos/Tasks#Ideas ):

• Use tables to show discussions like threads
• Can show the number of threads/posts, last post date, users participating... through api queries
• Initialize with a query to all talk pages, then maintain daily with the bot, querying the recent changes
• Main page would list all the wiki talk namespaces
• For each namespace (use subpages) list all the talks in chronological order with some details
• For each talk (can't use subpages) display the number of discussions (parse section headings, also display the titles?)

[lahwaacz]

I don't think it is a good idea to rely on a bot for formatting every talk page in the wiki, sometimes the discussions are resolved before "the bot can even notice".

There are some similar projects with similar goals and server-side management, e.g. Extension:LiquidThreads, which is still experimental and on hold at the moment.

[lahwaacz]

See also http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow

[kynikos]

Well, I admit it wasn't clear at all, but this idea was more about maintaining a (series of) page(s) to display links to the ongoing/recent discussions in a more friendly way than a filtered Special:RecentChanges page; it wasn't meant to format the talk pages themselves.