Re: New editpage feature: [ ] Public

Reini Urban wrote:
>I'd need a new feature to seperate wiki pages between public 
>and non-public, so that an external tool can make daily public 
>copies of certain pages, either static or to some external 
>wiki from within an intranet wiki.
>And purge non-public pages and versions which were formerly public.
>
>Some kind of simple review process, not as complicated as 
>ModeratedPage, similar to locked.
>Just a new WikiDB_Page key "public", similar to "locked", with 
>a checkbox below Locked in action=edit.
>
>Should I do that in the public version or just privately?
>I think of adding a config.ini key like ENABLE_PAGEPUBLIC, 
>default disabled. A better name would be appreciated.
>
>Or do we need more such page attributes, so that a generic 
>plugin interface to editpage buttons and logic is needed?

I think it should be a page attribute just like 'locked'.

>I tough of support for more markup types, which need a 
>pulldown instead of a checkbox (creole, mediawiki), but this 
>is too complicated, technically and for the user, so I 
>rejected that idea. WikiCreole should be supported as addon 
>automatically and for Mediawiki or other syntax we'd need some 
>external importer + exporter.

+1 for importer/exporter/converter solution. Supporting more markups would
make the parser much more complicated and not easily maintenable! 

>Ratings are supported by the RateIt plugin which can be added 
>to the editpage template if wanted.
>More page attributes such as public in principal also, but 
>because it is so simple I thought of adding it directly to 
>lib/editpage.php optionally.

Yes, good idea.

-- Sabri.


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