Thanks again for your responses. Having tried the extension on my test site, I can see how parts of it can be made to work.
My two worries about using the extension are these: 1. All saved lists are public to everyone -- I suspect most of my users would prefer to keep their collections private. 2. The loading and saving of lists is a bit cumbersome, usability wise. Who owns a list, how is it saved, why isn't it automatically loaded when I log in? In the first case, I would guess that users using the list function on pediapress and even Wikipedia when that happens (I've heard rumors that this'll make it on to Wikipedia, congrats), would also like to be able to keep lists private. That's also why I've added private lists as a feature request on the wishlist (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ Extension:Collection/Wishlist). In the case of the usability issues with regards to 2, I'm hoping these are issues that'll simply disappear as the plugin matures. Basically, I imagine a use-case would be like this: - a user wants to make a list of psychology related documents to be printed for some background reading - because this is a personal list of psychology material related to a specific class the user is taking, the user doesn't expect anyone else to want to see the list and expects any list he makes to be private - the user registeres an account on the Wiki, surfs around and clicks "add page" on a number of articles, and then proceeds to sort them - the user orders the final list as a book on pediapress, and then logs out In the above usecase, there is no need to save a list, and there's no need to make the list public at all. Actually hiding the list behind a password might not be needed, but automatically categorizing the list should be an option, not automatic. As for the saving -- I realize it simply saves it as a wiki page, but in my mind the intuitive thing is for the list to be auto-loaded when a user logs in to his/her account. Makes any sense at all? On Sep 16, 12:09 pm, Johannes Beigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 16.09.2008 um 11:31 schrieb Joen: > > > Actually, the "collection" extension I've been wanting the most which > > I hope this can be turned into, is very reminiscent of the "Watch > > page" feature that's already built in. > > > Every registered user has a "watch page" button. Pages can be watched > > and unwatched, and watched pages are gathered in a private list tied > > to that user account. > > I don't think this is achievable with the extension. As far as I know, > the watch list feature is deeply built into MediaWiki -- it's using > its own database table and is not just an extension. > > What could be done (although I'm not sure how hard or easy this will > be), is adding the feature that the user's watch list itself can be > loaded as the current collection. I don't know how useful this is or > if this would solve your specific problem though. > > > If I understand you correctly, the "save collection" feature saves a > > snapshot of the collection gathered. > > Right. > > > What I was hoping for was a > > continuously updated collection that needn't be saved, because once it > > was started, it just was -- like the "watch list". > > Actually one of the reasons to persist collections by saving them in > the first place, is to have a fixed list of articles (ideally the > links would even contain the revision of the article, but due to the > fact that MediaWiki markup doesn't have a link syntax which contains a > specific revision, this isn't possible). > > Regards, > Johannes --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mwlib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
