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MarkForDelete

Goal

Provide the opportunity to mark pages for deletion and collect them on a summary page for a peer review or later deletion by the administrator.

Answer

The mark for deletion process works this way

• put a snippet in your template which gives you a delete link
• when clicked, it leads to a form. Here you can give a short statement why the page should be deleted. Then
  • a note is put on the page about its delete status
  • a note is put on a summary page that collects all marked sites by week (example)

Installation

Note: "pagename" refers to "Group.Name" Include markfordelete.phpΔ in your config file:

 include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/markfordelete.php");   

Set the parameters:

Mandatory

$MarkForDeletePagename

pagename of the summary page

$MarkForDeleteForm

pagename of the wiki site with the form (See Notes)

Optional

$MarkForDeleteAllreadyOnPage

message shown if a page is allready marked for deletion. can be a pagename for redirection or html formated string

$MarkForDeletePutOnPage

can be a pagename which is included or wiki markup formated string. (e.g. a Sticky Note)

$MarkForDeleteLinkFmt

format of the template link

$MarkForDeleteExcludePattern

pagename strings which should not get an delete link in RegEx style "term1|term2|...|termX"

Localization

  'Week from' => 'Header on the summary page',
  'New Deletion Candidate' => 'Text in the RecentChanges for the summary page',
  'Marked for Deletion' => 'Text in the RecentChanges for the marked page',
  'Delete' => 'Text of the template snippet',

The Template Snippet

Put in your skin template file

  <!--function:MarkForDeleteLink-->

which outputs the deletion link. The deletion link will only be set if the current page is not already on the summary page and its name doesn't match someting in $MarkForDeleteExcludePattern.

The Form

There is a new Form variable which holds the name of the site you want to mark. The pagename of the form is set by $MarkForDeleteForm.

The form should look something like this:

You want to mark the site  [[{$PageToDelete}]] for deletion.

(:input form "" post:)
Why should the page be deleted:
(:input text shortexplain size=80 :)
(:input hidden action markfordelete :)
(:input hidden perform true :)
(:input hidden pagetodelete {$PageToDelete} :) 
(:input submit value="Go":)
(:input end:)

Notes

You can bypass the form, if you want, by providing paramters when calling the markfordelete action:

  perform=1
  pagetodelete=pagename

Releases

• v0.2 - Schlaefer November 21, 2005, at 06:17 AM
• v0.4 - Kt007 September 4, 2022, at 12:12 PM - Now fully functional with PHP 8

See Also

Contributors

• Schlaefer
• Kt007

Comments

See discussion at MarkForDelete-Talk?