Hello,

Am 15.09.2008 um 22:02 schrieb Joen:
> I'm not entirely sure whether this is the right place to post,

It is.

> I've had requests from users who want to be able to register their
> real-life comicbook collections online, for the purposes of searching
> and organizing and have easy access to the extra-info lookups
> ComicWiki provides. They would like to be able to click "add to
> collection" on a page such as the example above. Each collection would
> then be tied to their registered user accounts and optionally shared
> with others, but collections would be private by default.

You certainly can achieve some of this functionality by adding  
articles to a collection and saving the collection as a subpage of the  
user page of the logged-in user.

I'm not so sure about making these pages "private" though: Is it  
possible in MediaWiki to restrict user pages (or specific subpages  
thereof) to the respective user at all? If it is possible, it should  
be a configuration of the MediaWiki installation itself, not one of  
the Collection extension.

> The above mechanism -- does that describe anywhere near what MW
> Collection does? Or has "Collection" been programmed for a wholly
> different purpose?

The main purpose of the collections created with the Collection  
extension is to download PDFs, OpenOffice Text documents or documents  
in other formats, or to order a printed book. This could be quite  
interesting for the users of your wiki, too?

But the Collection extension also includes the feature to save and  
load collections (they're saved as vanilla wiki pages either under  
User:Foo or in a configurable namespace, which can also be the main  
namespace).

> Could it be made to work in the above mentioned manner? That is:
> - have private collections

This should be configured globally. Saved collections are plain wiki  
pages.

> - collections are related to user accounts

The extension supports saving collections as subpages of user pages.

> - "collectible" pages could be restricted to pages in a specific
> category

This is currently not possible, but shouldn't be too hard to add.

Regards,
Johannes Beigel


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