Author: matthias
Description:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DPLforum allows to list pages in a specific category in a message-board style sorted by recent edits. This would be useful for all those >100kB discussion pages on Talk: pages about controversial articles, deletion discussion pages or popular Wikipedia: Wikiproject and Wikipedia: Quality Assurance collaboration pages. On Commons a workaround using templates has been introduced, which requires Java-Script for a usable one-click-new-discussion: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Current_requests
See it in action: http://www.wikia.com/Forum:Help_desk
The extension is stable and installed on the Wikia farm so it works on high-traffic sites. It requires an additional Forum: namespace and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Inputbox which is already installed and some additions to MediaWiki:Common.css. Setting up multiple forums for end-users is easy: http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Wiki-style_forum_set_up
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DPLforum_for_Wikimedia_wikis