Extension:PostComment

MediaWiki extensions manual

Postcomment Release status: experimental
Implementation	Page action
Description	Allows users to post comments directly to discussion pages.
Author(s)	Travis Derouin (Tderouintalk)
Latest version	0.1 (2007-03-08)
MediaWiki	1.6+
Database changes	No
License	GPL v2+
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The PostComment extension allows users to post comments directly to discussion pages directly from a form at the bottom of each discussion page. This extension is by no means meant to be an extensive solution to discussion page problems (I'll leave that to LiquidThreads), it's just a simple extension that works for smaller wikis. So far we've had over 150,000 talk page messages posted with it and our community seems to like its simplicity.

Configuration & Installation

• Get the source via SVN
• Add

require_once ('extensions/Postcomment/Postcomment.php');

to LocalSettings.php

• Find a place in your skin where you'd like the comment form to appear and place a call to wfPostcommentForm(). For example, in MonoBook.php you could change

            <!-- end content -->
            <div class="visualClear"></div>

to:

            <!-- end content -->
            <div class="visualClear"></div>
            <?php wfPostcommentForm(); ?>

• Add the following CSS to your main.css stylesheet - feel free to modify:

#discussion_entry {
	border: 1px solid #CED1FF; 
	padding: 5px;  
	margin-bottom:5px
}
 
td.discussion_entry_date {
	font-size: smaller;
}
 
td.discussion_entry_user {
	font-weight: bold;
}
 
td.discussion_entry_comment {
}

Modifications

• The comment form can appear on article pages. Simply remove these lines in Postcomments.php and it will work. However, all users' comments will also be inserted into where the form appears directly.

// just for talk pages
if (!$wgTitle->isTalkPage() || $action != '')
return;

Bugs and enhancements

Bugs or feature requests can be sent to the author at travis @ wikihow.com.