The BuddyBar is an adaptation of the bar that was previously included in WPMU, which was a watered down version of what you see at wordpress.com. It can be restyled, replaced, or totally removed if you so choose.
No, but it’s been well discussed that WordPress and BuddyPress do a relatively poor job dealing with i18n issues.
For wp wiki, you have to use the backend editor, since it’s officialy made for single wordpress. But since you have to/can make a different theme for the blog, you could try making it front-end.
Edit: I found an easy solution for this as well, there’s a front end editor plugin.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/screenshots/
Do users have to log into the wordpress backend in order to write a wiki post, or is there kinf of frontend editor?
You can create a custom home theme and replace the blog avatars with a default image of your own if you’d like. And choosing the creator is obvious to you, but might not be what someone else wants. The creator of the root blog is the admin account, but I always create a new user right away and use that new user as my active account.
When you first install WordPress and see the default theme, is your first response to say “it’s obvious the sidebar should be on the left side.” The default BuddyPress themes are designed to include all of the functions of BuddyPress to guide everyone into how to customize the use of them to do what you want and look how you want it to, just like the included WordPress themes do.
Sure, people have made ultra elaborate theme frameworks, but don’t expect that to come bundled in the BuddyPress core. You’ve got options if you don’t like what you see, so explore them. 
BuddyPress doesn’t modify any WordPress tables or data. It does add a few entries to your _options though. The easiest way to “uninstall” BuddyPress is to drop the tables it creates when it installs. They usually start with “wp_bp_”.
Very few WordPress plugins have a real “uninstall.” Most of them pollute the WordPress tables with their data and when you deactivate and delete that plugins files, their settings and data still remain in the database. It took me a while to get used to that too, coming from a world where if you don’t need something, you get rid of it; But it doesn’t hurt anything keeping it there, and it even helps sometimes if you decide to revisit a plugin that you deleted 6 months ago.
In the coming weeks I may write a plugin to import existing blogs into the wp_bp_* tables, but the risk with that kind of thing is just like any other aggregator, it will be a very heavy routine that goes through all users, all blogs, all posts, and all comments, and feeds them into the BuddyPress tables for future use.
@nonegiven:
No one is forcing you to use WordPress and BuddyPress, and if it doesn’t suit your particular needs then it isn’t the right tool for the job, and that’s okay.
Multilingual blogging and content management is a relatively new need, and as more people speak up and help out in areas of need, things like this eventually do make it into the core product
Remember that there are very few people that can do multilingual development, and even less that can do it well. It isn’t that no one cares, it isn’t due to lack of funding (you mean people get paid to do this? 
), it isn’t because the need isn’t obvious, it’s because things are prioritized in the order that the WordPress community votes on, and for 2.9 the votes said media was the top priority.
We’ll get there, I promise. But before we can do that, we need to finish some of the work we’ve already got first.
Just registered on your site as “guest”
When I attempt to create a group. The “previous” and “next” buttons are always there. You’re correct to assume part of the problem is with the avatar cropping tool, because the issue isn’t with groups, it’s with user avatars too.
Your bug in the trac wasn’t deleted because I responded to it a few hours ago also, but saw the post here and figured it would be the easiest way to find you…
Are you able to upload images to your WordPress blog?
I haven’t seen an issue like this before, so this looks like a configuration issue of some kind. I know you’ve said you’ve tried this on a bunch of hosts, but something isn’t jiving on your installs.
Can you try the updated version of WordPressMU (2.8.5.2) and see if the problem continues?
@gazouteast
Do you have a link to your install that I can join and try to diagnose? I know that there have been issues with the cropping tool, but the current tool is one that now comes included with WordPress and is being used as part of the media editing update coming in WordPress 2.9.
I now have re-installed wpmu, buddypress and bbpress (all newest versions). But it still won’t work. I also used buddypress Forum Setup.
See the site here: http://xevodesign.nl/talkmore/
The only 3 differences between this setup and the one I did on my localhost (which worked), are that I installed on my localhost, I used my localhost root and the wpmu version.
Edit: Never mind, got it working, used the bbpress-integration plugin. Strangely enough I didnt have to use this before on my localhost.
I might’ve found the first bug, I’m not sure if buddypress/wpmu/bbpress or one of my plugins is the problem though.
I have a stand-alone bbpress and integrated it with the bbpress install. But now the cross-login doesn’t work anymore. When I login to buddypress/wpmu I’m not automatically logged in to my bbpress, I checked if I maybe made a mistake with my KEYs, but those are correct.
Since this worked perfectly fine with wpmu 2.8.4a, I’m geussing it’s wpmu’s fault. I’ll test some more and I’ll try to see if I can track down the problem.
Btw, the plugins I have installed are:
– Plugin Commander
– WP Wiki (already tried disabling, no effect)
Ok, WordPress has the ability sometimes to make me feel really stupid.
By disabling the admin bar, you lose the ability to create groups. Doh.
Another change it would have been nice to have noted somewhere, and another reason why I’d pay good money (REALLY GOOD MONEY) for a technical deep-dive reference book on BuddyPress
But, because the admin bar doesn’t fit the asthetics of the site we’re building, I need to find the code that makes up My Account, My Blogs, Notifications and Visit and make them part of our new header so that functionality stays intact.
Thanks for your help DJPaul! Would you know offhand where I might find that code?
@ Arghagain: No, I just made a clean install of Wpmu 2.8.5.2, Buddypress 1.1.2 and even a stand alone integrated BBpress 1.0.2. So no problems there.
Shouldnt this be closed, since there’s already a new topic of the newer version?
I know this may be a stupid reply or may be repeating someone else saying, but have anyone see a problem of getting buddypress 1.1.2 on wpmu 2.8.5.2?
I went to bed and it was 2.8.5.1. I just went to download and it is now 2.8.5.2.
There was a posting bug discovered that required an additional incrementally tagged version.
http://ocaoimh.ie/wordpress-mu-2851/
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BIG bump ….
I hope some of those $29,500,000 Matt Mullenweg has raised for WordPress/Buddypress goes into an internationalizing campaign.
I would like to see a mature MULTI-LINGUAL environment … not just single stand alone versions (… my interest is in Chinese, Korean and Japanese versions).
To be honest, given that Web 2.0 is all about “communication” … would not it be wonderful is we could build multi-national communities?
Sure it even makes sense from a business point of view given the size of those markets.
If WP/BP will never hack it … can anyone recommend any other native language blogs/CMS packages?
Hi JJJ, what are obviouse reasons to upgrade, iyo? I’m not quite up on the latest between 2.8.4a and 2.8.5.1. (Off the top of your head.)
Well, I’m only interested in the edit function and like I said, simplicity is the way to go. I’m already just using pages and sub pages for my current setup.
But I’ll try recreating it myself. When will the future version (3.0) be released, this year? If not, then I cannot wait for that to come around.
Thanks for the help though, hearing that it’s just a blog on the wpmu system, lets me know that I dont have to install a standalone wordpress to accomplish this.
If someone has suggestions on how to do the edit function or still is willing to make a plugin, please let me know.
Found similar issues on the osCommerce forums related to javascript uploaders for images, and in the WordPress.org forums for the WP media Library’s flash uploader since v2.5
Although I’m not tech enough to solve this issue, it does absolutely appear to be related to the javascript cropper for uploaded images ….. AND NOTHING ABOVE HAS FIXED IT FOR ME
Please don’t trot out the “start your own thread” instruction – there is too much of the above posts that are pertinent and the problem is not resolved.
…. or do you want the same situation as the WP.org forums that have hundreds of report threads about this error? None of them resolved other than to point at the WP plugin to use the “no flash uploader” plugin.
Gaz
http://www.noserub.com is a contentaggregationtool … and i’d like to see similar functions on buddypress.
I read abut the Plugin LifeStream for WordPress … is ist compatible with WP MU ?
@Xevo:
Andy has installed on the codex a very quick and simple way to modify the individual pages of the codex. It’s a customized setup of sorts, but it’s really just another WPMU blog that everyone has the ability to edit.
In future versions of WordPress (probably 3.0) posts will become more robust and be better suited for something like this. Until then the codex is basically just pages and sub pages with a theme that knows how to make sense of the hierarchy.
I’ve marked this topic as resolved as it’s not a BuddyPress issue and we have helped as much as we can.
