To put a page on the front page, edit the FrontPage, and look for the <aggregate "..." "..."> pattern. The pages in double quotes will be added to the front page. We’ll show the following:
---- or = at the beginning of a line.)I think this will require us to be more careful with the page introductions, as these introductions will be prime candidates for inclusion into the FrontPage. Those will have to be written for a blog-reading audience.
If we’re going to use this feature, I’ll also create an RSS feed for it.
Bonjour Alex. I just translated this page on PageAccueilDiscussion where I suggested to translate “Learn more” in “En savoir plus” for the french PageAccueil. Please correct if I made a mistake
Neat idea.
I should first say: This is really cool.
But, I need to continue LionsCriticismOfWiki?: Note how when I changed the page from a DatePage to another name, I had to go onto the FrontPage, and change the aggregation line.
The problem with this is that it’d tip everybody’s newsreader, their RSS reader.
In a blog, it’s write-once, never-change. Things stay the same. Modeling this as an editable document puts us in conflict with that.
Perhaps we should use something like the Blogger API to push pages that we’ve approved of, or something. (shrug) I don’t know. My personal feeling is that we’ve just pushed wiki architecture to the limits.
But again: I totally appreciate what you’re doing, I love the CommunityWiki, this is totally awesome.
I have no good overview on what’s hot right now, but I like the idea of the representative page and make a bit of in and out on it to not let it be forgotten. I’d feel tempted to use clean-linking to make it look really neat and nice for an outside reader.
maybe more … is enough and we leave the verb to the user?
Learn more... is what Google Mail is using, and I really like it. It’s “warmer” because it addresses the reader directly.
Other than that: You know I don’t like CleanLinking. 
I will put the FrontPage where it belongs, now.
Shall we please not forget to keep the front-page updated with the stuff we feel is hot. BeBold. Please imagine all wikis would do it, that helps. It’s not of disadvantage when the front page is rather nervously changing. The community has to learn it first. To exaggerate is good for finding out how much is too much. Along with this goes making headers for the respective pages and put a subtitle/short summary in it that is also copied over to the summary field and is readable in the recent changes and the in the feed. Just imagine all wikis would do it.
Maybe we should have a proposal place for whats pre-hot/warm? I thought
PersonalWiki and DecentralizedWiki are warm nowadays I think. But I have difficulties summarizing/understanding the technical parts.
I just haven’t been very active on CW lately; I’m working on Local Names w/ the TurboGear? crowd right now. I’d love to write about things, I just don’t have the time right now. This goes for while on the bus, as well. I suspect I’ll be back here soon, though.
In CoForum (which is mostly in german) I am experimenting with similar blog-like constructs. Up to now I have introduced a special field for a “News”-Section to a page, but maybee it would be better to have it to bee a “first-part” of the page. By linking to other pages in the metadata-section (and in the future in the body also) the “news” will also be shown on connected pages thus leading to a bunch of seperate blogs, one for each page. Comments on usability are most welcome. IMHO it is better to give pages themselves the ability to control wether they apear somewhere or not. Pages, where people spend enough work to summarize what is going on, should IMHO all be published to the front page.
(Nonsequiter: ) We could just make a date page, and put it on the FrontPage, too. It could summarize what we’re doing lately.
We’re going full circle, here, because that’s what the DatePages and the Blog were supposed to be. I didn’t expect the date pages to be used for trivia. If all date pages have interesting content, then the Blog page would automatically collect Wiki:WhatsOnWikisMind.
Can you pull a non-date page on the blog?
I think that most of the time, our activity is focused on a non-date page. I just suggested a date page, because I think this is one of those rare instances where we don’t have a whole lot going on in a particular page.
Well, I take that back- the PersonalWiki page has been fairly active. Perhaps we should just rework that, and put that on the FrontPage.
You cannot pull non-date pages on the blog. They way I read the exchange was this:
I like the <aggregate "..." "..."> thing. Cool. It’s 99% of the way towards implementing WikiFeatures:IdeasToPlace #180.
It’s irritating that we don’t have side-bars, listing related blogs, and that we don’t have an RSS feed, so that we can participate in link exchange, with, say, http://recentchanges.info/ .
This is crucial if we want to interact with the greater blog culture. (Which we should.)
Alex, can you create some markup, so that we can put in a div section, that has style=“position:absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; width:200px”, or something like that?
Not sure how you’re going to make an RSS feed for us, though..!
I don’t understand: An RSS feed for what? We have RSS feeds for RecentChanges and all its variants (all of them!), and we have an RSS feed for the FrontPage, too.
See Oddmuse:Rss Action for more.
See Oddmuse:Front Page Extension for more.
This last feed uses the index, which is only updated every eight hours these days.
Adding a sidebar is easy. Making it look good is difficult. If you have suggestions for the CSS, let me know. I hacked up some stuff that looks ok on Firefox 1.5 on OSX, I have no idea how it looks elsewhere.
I guess I also need a pagename for the French sidebar. 
Bonsoir Alex, nice work. I think I’ll translate SideBar with BarreLatérale. Perhaps Emile could give us another suggestion 
AWESOME!
Thoughts:

I’m trying to do this…
== ATOM/RSS == [http://www.communitywiki.org/en?action=aggregate;id=FrontPage http://www.communitywiki.org/pics/xml.png] -- CW blog
…in the sidebar, but it’s not really working.
Any ideas? Oddmuse:Link_Pattern doesn’t explain how to do an image link. Is it possible?
Another extension handles that: Oddmuse:Image Extension.
I agree with you on the goto bar. I will remove all links except for the FrontPage feed. Therefore the image link above will no longer be needed.
Ok, just tried the Oddmuse:Extension Image on the right SideBar with “Rss Content” as a header. I heard before that we should be oriented towards the foreign community. Still don’t know how to dress any RSS Feed with Oddmuse:RSS#RssStyleSheet. Last August, I red an Alex’s post[1] and tried to make some tests but they were really ugly[2]
So how about putting some links to rss feeds powered by feedburner[3] ?
The problem with doing it ourselves is that the front-page aggregation contains HTML, not plain text, so that it looks ugly, even if I add a style sheet. There is no way for me to fix this in CSS.
I therefore linked your feedburner feed.
Alex, this rss feed[4] has now a quite nice dressing ! We could just think about some text and links to make people understand how to manage/subscribe our rss feeds ? I have to leave but will come back after reading CraoWiki:CommentHabillerUnFilRss. Have a good night and thanks for all.
I made it a bit nicer. If you have some text to add, let me know. I need to sleep, now. 
I feel like we should move the “Blog” link from the “Connected Blogs” section.
Why?
Because I think our blog is mainly internal chatter, and that most people won’t be interested in it. If they want to read it, sure, they can, but that right-side bar is for stuff that we think people will be interested in.
Can we put the link to the Blog on the RecentChanges page, instead of the sidebar?
As we discover more wiki with blogs, or blogs that we feel somehow “connected with” as a group, I would want to put them over there.
I think our first loyalties lie to the blogs of groups that we consider connected communities. Do any other communities have a thing like the FrontPage?
I feel that we should encourage other communities to look at what we’ve done, and to replicate the behavior. I seriously believe that this, what we are doing right now, is the track towards integration with others.
I think we need to:
Now, must of us are avid readers of Meatballwiki, and it’s not really “required” for us to connect. But for the greater world beyond and about, if we want to connect, we need to have this kind of thing, and we need to have to explain how this kind of thing is beneficial, etc., etc.,.
I’ll probably be the one to write this stuff; I’m just voicing my intention and sorting out my thoughts publicly.
I’ll be back from this conference Wednesday night; I would expect to see this followed through on within a few weeks. (!) So much to do…
Whether this is what I do or not, this is what I should do, I feel. (Agreement?)
MattisManzel: go go go
Okay, I’ve simplified BlogControlledByWiki. Does anoyone object to me posting it to the FrontPage?
Just do it! 
I’ve sent an invitation to Raymond King to look at what we’ve made here. With luck, he’ll decide it is newsworthy, and may even link our blog on his blogroll.
i love the new front page functionality.
how about “Read more…” instead of “Learn more…”? “Learn more” sounds a little arrogant to me.. as if we are the teachers and a newcomer reading the FrontPage is a student. Much of what we discuss isn’t valuable knowledge that everyone should learn, anyway, it’s just our random ideas.
Hm, does Google sound arrogant to you, too? If not, I wonder what the difference is. They are documenting their own product and are therefore teaching their users? Just wondering.
I’d like to add a link to WelcomeVisitors to the top of the FrontPage.
Good idea.
This concerns our recent changes, but very directly also our front-page. Lemme try:
Imagine we had<br> activated in the summary field. We could make our recent changes look like this:
# 23:15 UTC (Unterschiede) (alte Versionen) CCULibrarySuggestionBox? . . . . LionKimbro -
desc: A virtual suggestion box for Colorado Christian University Library.
new: WHa?? Anyone know what’s going on here? [en]
# 22:34 UTC (Unterschiede) (alte Versionen) TingRadio . . . . MattisManzel –
desc:Ting-radio is not another radio-station but a a way to let listeners participate on a radio-show or to even let them entirely perform it on their own. Such participation can happen on text and voice level.
new: ting radio, community radio, podcast radio, audio group chat. Mattis copied in text from s23-wiki: ting-radio. It’s all there. [en]
# 19:47 UTC (Unterschiede) (alte Versionen) ContentRouting . . . . LionKimbro –
desc:
new: workin
or (wasting more space)
# 23:15 UTC (Unterschiede) (alte Versionen) CCULibrarySuggestionBox? . . . . LionKimbro -
A virtual suggestion box for Colorado Christian University Library.
WHa?? Anyone know what’s going on here? [en]
# 22:34 UTC (Unterschiede) (alte Versionen) TingRadio . . . . MattisManzel –
Ting-radio is not another radio-station but a a way to let listeners participate on a radio-show or to even let them entirely perform it on their own. Such participation can happen on the text and voice level.
ting radio, community radio, podcast radio, audio group chat. Mattis copied in text from s23-wiki: ting-radio. It’s all there. [en]
# 19:47 UTC (Unterschiede) (alte Versionen) ContentRouting . . . . LionKimbro –
page description goes here.
workin
The 2-line-description of a page should come from the top of the page itself. I add it on ting-radio. These two lines are a common issue. Developing “culture” on keeping good 2-line-descriptions would help us enormously for our front-page, I think.
I agree. We should try:
I also think people should have the option to turn off the display of the 2-liners in the RecentChanges too.
I like it! I do not see it as a replacement for the FrontPage, but I like it. 
flex-wiki: visitor book . They have summary boxes on top of their pages.
Elsewhere I saw this comment:
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This page is part of the FrontPage now,
so please note that
the first section of this page should be something that can be read as a standalone weblog post.
Should we put this comment on every page transcluded to the FrontPage? That seems redundant.
Elsewhere I also saw these comments:
Define external redirect: TurboGear CCULibrarySuggestionBox LionsCriticismOfWiki