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Something like wp-wiki is limited in a couple ways:

1) It doesn’t have ready-made discussion pages

2) It doesn’t make the page history public

For many uses of a group wiki, neither of these is necessary. But a full-featured BP wiki plugin will have both.

I think (1) can be cobbled together without too much difficulty, either through the creation of a parallel post for each wp-wiki enabled post (an attractive solution, because the discussion page can be wiki-enabled too) or through the use of comments (attractive in its own way, as the metadata is already in place, and you might be able to leverage something like CommentPress.

Feature (2) is a bit more complicated, because wp-wiki uses page revisions for versioning. You’d have to move them out of the Dashboard and built analogs for “cur” and “diff” for it to be really useful and wiki-ish.

Like D Cartwright says, it’s likely that making wp-wiki work will require as much development time as starting with a full-fledged wiki and making it work with BP. There’s probably a real market for both solutions, since a simple BP plugin will be very easy to use for beginners, while power users might want the functionality of MediaWiki

Two thoughts.

1. I love you (and your team).

2. The pages should maybe go in a vertical list rather than horizontal. Just thinking that you’re going to run out of space if a group has more than a handful of documents. Perhaps the page view template is still in progress.

I’d be fine with an index / directory page. That page could perhaps even use sorting / filtering (at some point) similar to the BuddyPress directory pages in the latest default theme… i.e. most active, most recent… my wikis, all wikis… etc. And if you’re leveraging WordPress functionality… another way to organize the wikis would be by tags and categories… perhaps with a sidebar widget and a dynamic directory page depending on which tag / category you click on. Lots of ideas

1 Thought so far. I love you too (and your team). More thoughts whenever we’ll see more of this

Everything is done through the frontend – our students and academics absolutely hated the backend

Thats exactly what we experienced with our beta testers and what makes me even more excited about ur development.

So far i have one more question. On the screenshots u posted i saw a line

Any future page creation/deletion can ONLY be performed by group admins.”

I’m a little bit concerned that this won’t encourage users to post new pages. I’m afraid that people will be more likely create a new group to see their pages up instead of searching for a suitable group where there page would be fit in?

I’m also available to test so let me know when beta is out. I’m testing MediaWiki WPMU SSO plugin and also found this https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wiki-append/. Having a group wiki is something I was looking at and I’m glad to see this one. My initial idea was to create a NameSpace in MediaWiki for each group. Of course there is user permissions issue.