Microsummaries
Microsummaries are regularly-updated short summaries of web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and they get regularly updated as new information becomes available. (quote from the
MozillaWiki∞)
Firefox 2.0, beeing released at the end of october, will support them, RC2 of it already does.
Examples∞ show that people use it mostly for displayin the last article/ blogpost/comment on a homepage or the number of comments on a story.
How does it work?
Firefox detects Microsummaries with the following link beeing inserted into the header of a page:
<link rel="microsummary" href="index.php?view=microsummary">
The url is an example, of course. More then one Microsummary is possible. If a user bookmarks such a page, he has the option to have the/one Microsummary shown instead of the normal page title (selecting it in a dropdown-list while bookmarking the page).
Unfortunately, there is no indication what type of file Firefox seems to expect at the link. If it is
a Microsummary generator using another site∞ it has to be XML. But
plain text∞ seems to be the better option for Wikka.
What can we do with it?
My thoughts:
everything would be handled through handlers/page/microsummaries.php
for every page:
* date of last change + author
* number of comments (if comments are allowed)
for
RecentChanges
* Page and Autor and date of last change (note:
We do not know how many chars are allowed in a Microsummary)
for
RecentComments /
RecentlyCommented:
* Page and Autor and date of the last comment.
Your ideas?
News items
Microsummaries might be used for news items. E.g. assume there'd be an action {{newsitem}} which would output a header linking to the news item, followed by a short summary and the obligate "(read more)" linking to the news item, too. In Wiki syntax, the output of
{{newsitem news="NewsItemActionInfo"}}
might look like this:
====[[NewsItemActionInfo News Action Info]]====
The Wikka development team describes the basic functionality of the {{newsitem}} action,
allowing Wiki authors to include their page to some kind of news portal site inside of
their Wikka. [[NewsItemActionInfo (read more)]]
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MasinAlDujaili, 2006-10-09, 13:36 CEST (only news item stuff)
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