This first extension will allow comments from WordPress to be displayed on a MediaWiki page. The basic use of this extension is to help ease users into using a wiki for discussion. As most users are more familiar with blog comments than they are with a talk page, the developers created this extension to help ease users into an unfamiliar setting. Of course, this only scratches the surface of how you can make use of this extension.
For the purpose of this demonstration, I have gone into Wordpress and created a post titled Best software. Additionally, I created a quick comment related to the post.
To get started, we need to copy the PHP file from http://www.gizmogarden.com/ index.php/Wordpress_comments_to_wiki#WordpressComments.php and save it as a file named WordpressComments.php
. The code is rather long and can be downloaded from the online companion to the book.
1. Using your FTP program or file manager, upload the
WordpressComments.php
file to...