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Just thought I’d give people an update.
1) As discussed, we moved to making use of inbuilt wordpress functions as much as possible and hence avoid the nightmare of trying to make mediawiki work in a way that is ‘nice’ with buddypress.
2) We’ve taken inspiration from the following plugins: front-end-editor, bp-groupblog and wp-wiki. We currently aren’t using any of the code from these, but many thanks to the authors of these plugins for their very informative code.
3) Work is progressing very nicely. Sadly we probably won’t have a working beta before xmas but I’m going to post up a few screenshots next week with some luck. In the meantime, here are two to whet your appetite slightly:
Group Wiki Create Screen
http://linktart.co.uk/_files_/dev/wiki1.png
Group Wiki Home Screen
http://linktart.co.uk/_files_/dev/wiki2.png
Please note: Our designer hasn’t re-styled these pages yet so bits of it look quite rough. Apologies about that. Functionality-wise we’re probably about 50% of the way there, with a few placeholders here and there until we can finish things.
Any thoughts? I realise that there isn’t exactly much to go on at the moment
I should also probably again mention that we were looking for quite a simple wiki plugin for our students, not a fully blown wiki system…
No worries. I thought that might be the case. I’ll submit this kind of thing through trac next time – I originally thought I was doing something wrong but part way through posting realised what the problem was
Think I may have worked out the problem now actually… I installed with sub-domains rather than sub-directories on a dev server where sub-domains don’t play nicely. Must have been in too much of a rush from the excitement
@Andy Peatling
I’ll do some more checking later tonight (just about to head home from work). It’s more than possible that I’ve done something wrong
edit: These errors fixed as of rev 2174. I’ll stop spamming you now Andy
edit again: There’s still no “My Blogs” adminbar item though.
Looks nice so far. Thanks Andy
Something I’ve noticed is that there is no longer a “My Blogs” menu item in the adminbar. Is this intentional?
Oohh.. Time to spam F5 on the trac methinks
Sounds promising Erich73…
I am more than happy with it not being ‘stable’ until late January/early February. I can deal with revisions and such in the meantime
No worries. I would love to be involved in a project similar to your suggestion – so perhaps it’s something we can run parallel
@Boone Gorges
It’s looking like we’ll be going that route for now. I think we’re likely to end up with something far more useful (to start with) but I agree – there is definitely a call for a basic wiki plugin and something more fully-fledged…I’d like to be involved with the development of both :p
If you would like to chat about the development we did with mediwiki sometime I’d be happy to go through it with you and provide the partial code. It might be enough to provide a spark of interest/development attention from people. I will warn you that it’s in an awful state though – it’s just me playing with things and trying to get a rough solution working before later refining.
Our first stage actually worked in quite a similar way to that which you’re describing, minus some of the functionality.
Part of the reason we’re now using a wiki is purely down to the way that people get excited when you talk about wikis when compared to other tools. This has led to more funding for further development… I’m sure you’ve run into similar situations before
Lol. Good point
I just wish I had more time for pleasure rather than it all being taken up by ‘real’ work
I think I ended up commenting out the email notification before first activation on a live site. I then added it back. If I remember correctly you also have your activity stream somewhat spammed so that might be another thing to look at
