Comments
Table of contents
- 1. Usage
- 2. Display
- 3. Configuration
Comments allow for a conversation about a page's contents. Comments was implemented for Hayes (1.8.1) (spec).
Usage
Comments may be made at the bottom of every page by registered users. Comments will appear exactly as typed (line breaks, special characters, etc.). There is no support for HTML in comments. Commenters may delete or edit their own comments (edit shows a message of the edited time), while administrators may only delete comments.
Display
To prevent comment information overload, Deki Wiki limits the number of comments to display at once. Comments are displayed in chronological order to make following the flow of conversation simpler. A user, at any time, can get the whole comment list by clicking the "View All" link if the number of comments displayed is less than the total amount.
Since a common practice in responding to comments is to prefix a comment with ("@commentid" or "@commenter"), we've chosen to show "deleted" comments for continuity of comment #s in the UI (RoyK: A configurable flag to suppress this behavior is in discussion)
Configuration
Number of comments to display
You can set the number of comments that Deki Wiki initially loads by adding this line to LocalSettings.php:
$wgCommentCount = 25; //shows 25 comments
Disabling comments
In LocalSettings.php set:
$wgCommentCount = 0;
Your skin may still show some components of comments; modify the template files accordingly.
Alternatively, a less clean way to disable disable commenting is by pulling the comment skinning tag out of the main template file.
/skins/ace/Ace.php
Find and remove:
<?php $this->html('comments'); ?> All the strings in Deki Wiki are configurable in /resources/resources.txt. For the deleted comment, the localization key is:
commentdeleted
You can extend the localization by adding your new commentdeleted localization key to
/resources/resources.en-us.txt
(it will be a blank file). Try adding this line:
commentdeleted=Comment #$1 was deleted.
You can likewise set this to an empty string, but the display will still show an extra line.
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