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I want a one-stop-shop for comments on my wiki that mashes together activity on talk pages and comments using the Comments module — it's a new project and the users have requested something in addition to Recent Changes that will help them keep track of the debates about direction/editorial policy/etc that are linked to specific posts.

I used ListPages to list the most recent talk page edits, and could use the RecentPosts module to separately list the comments in my chatter category pages. What I want is a term that will allow me to include both in a list that is then ranked by most recent.

I may ultimately add the Comments module to the talk pages template when I try to improve a lot of other things about that template, but right now I just want a quick fix so the users are happy.

Links

• The wiki in question: http://radicalpublichealth.wikidot.com/
• The page in question: http://radicalpublichealth.wikidot.com/help-wanted
• An example of a chatter page: http://radicalpublichealth.wikidot.com/chatter:first-month

Ok that means I need to actually fix things.

Two directions

1. I'd like to get the "discuss" button in my top menu to point to page's hidden/per page discussion in the forum (where javascript "discuss" button at bottom of page points) instead of pointing to a page with the same title but in a "talk" category.
2. If I can't do that, I'd like to alter the behavior of the talk button so that when it creates a page in category:talk, the talk page automatically:
   • loads the comments module
   • parents the article it belongs to and links back to that page in the topbar (where the topbar currently links to "main")
   • prohibits the creation of a talk page on itself (ie. talk:talk:article)
3. Alter new page templates so new pages by default are created with tabview at the top, but not visible when an editor views the source or edits the page (so as not to intimidate them).

I don't know how to do any of these things, but spent today trying to figure out the first option (because it is my favored option). Any suggestions?

Topbar Code

The wikicode under my topbar is:

* **[[[start | main]]]**
* [[button talk text="discuss"]]
* **[[button edit text="edit this page"]]**
* [[button source text="view source"]]
* [[button history text="history"]]
* [# other tools]
 * [[button tags text="page tags"]]
 * [[button files text="manage files"]]

The wiki

I'm trying to do all this at http://radicalpublichealth.wikidot.com

Sorry to blow up the forum! If you'd help me out if only my membership policy was open, I can make it temporarily open. It is closed because it encourages the real-life group members to join instead of editing anonymously. Once we've built a core croup of editors, we'll probably pursue a more open membership policy — but for now, they're waiting on me to improve the site design and interface.