Hi Joen, On Nov 2, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Joen wrote: > I'm eagerly following the development of this extension for my own > sinister motives. Frankly, I'm hoping that this extension will one day > go beyond the "book realm", and become a hybrid which can also serve > as a bookmark list in mediawikis. > > Because I have that motive, whenever I try the extension and add pages > to a collection/book-to-be, I get confused by loading and saving > collections. > > I've been spoiled by cookies and user accounts, so I automatically > assume that any collection _I_ make, is tied to my account or my > cookie. I would personally prefer a collection to be automatically > saved to user accounts, and automatically reloaded when I log back in. > For me, this would be logical, and for people wanting to order books, > I imagine, very useful, as "building a book" can take a while before > everything is just right.
this can be accomplished by expanding the session cookie expiration date. Although this will not work if one visits MediaWiki from different computers. Quote from Readme.txt: * As the current collection of articles is stored in the session, the session timeout should be set to some sensible value (at least a few hours, maybe one day). Adjust session.cookie_lifetime and session.gc_maxlifetime in your ``php.ini`` accordingly. > To be honest, this extension could work just like "Watch list". To add > pages to a watchlist, you simply click "add page to watchlist", and > vica versa. To view your watchlist later on, you simply click "my > watchlist". This is as simple as it gets, and in my mind, there's no > reason why this extension couldn't work that way. Watchlist only works for the minority of users which have an account. Nonetheless would you prefer to have the collection-portlet rather as links in the bar next to watchlist? > An added benefit to making this extension work somewhat like > watchlist, would be, that the "save collection" button could be simply > removed. Whenever you log in, there's your collection, and any wiki > articles you browse will know that they're part of it, ready for > removal. The idea behind saved collections is, that user may want to build, persist and share more than one collection. We know that the usability is still suboptimal, but we are somewhat clueless on how to improve this. Please continue to share your ideas. Heiko --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
