Wiki

Hey all,

I come from a wiki development background. have been involved in wiki communities and circles for a while now.

I have struggled with both Liquid and Wikitools in Drupal since Drupal 4.7, and have come to the conclusion that the problem is with Freelinking.

When I first used freelinking, I loved it. But, as I tried to customize and add functionality onto wiki in Drupal, Freelinking, and specifically the way that Freelinking makes links, has become a real bane to me in constructing wiki in Drupal.

I'm building a community site for the Public Librarians and I was wondering how on Wiki Pages, the Edit link is added on Drupal Groups.

It's the link just under the Title that says, "You are viewing a wiki page. You are welcome..." Then depending on whether you're already a member of the Group, the link either goes to edit the page or join the group.

How nice.

Does anyone know how this was done? Is it something added to the theme template? I'm trying to figure out how it's done!

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm just wondering how to import mediawiki XML and turning it into a wikitools drupal system. This should theoretically be simple, but I'm not sure where to begin.

I am trying to install the pear wiki filter, but I am not understanding this part of the readme instructions:

Use the following command to get the CVS Version of all the required PEAR packages
(which I would recommend at least for the Mediawiki parser):

cvs -d :pserver:cvsread@cvs.php.net:/repository checkout -d Text pear/Text_Wiki/Text

Any help? I think it means to use some sort of command line, which I am unfamiliar. Is there a way to do it without it?

I'm debating whether to integrate wiki (a simple solution that I'm familiar with and would basically take care of all my needs in 1 fell swoop), or use various modules to do a native Drupal wiki.

So to help me make this decision, I'm asking if the Drupal wiki modules are able to duplicate at least all the basic functions of mediawiki. I'm a little confused about freelinking module. Is it neccessary? Shouldn't the wikitools module be able to do the same thing? Or am I missing something?

I like wikimedia as it is, the syntax and everything are very good for most documents, the only thing I don't like, is the discussion pages. is it possible to just have the discussion (talk) pages link into drupal ? instead of going for full integration. How hard would that be ?

Following the release of the Flexifilter module, I thought I'd mention how this can be used to create a mediawiki-style markup format— and it's completely customizable in that any features can be omitted, altered, or added.

Over the past few years, Drupal wiki capabilities have blossomed. I think- and correct me if you disagree- that they've reached such a point as to make a drupal-powered wiki.drupal.org a distinct possibility. Even now, we continue to get silly questions in the drupal.org forums: "can you make a wiki with Drupal?", etc. Let's prove to them that it can. As groups.drupal.org came to represent the power of Drupal with regard to community effort, wiki.drupal.org will come to represent the power of Drupal in information exchange.

This would be an ideal place for both developers and Drupal newbies to record what they know and to learn what they don't. Api.drupal.org and the Drupal handbooks partially achieve this: but a wiki site, with anonymous users given editing power, would make the documentation of Drupal explode from a partially-complete, somewhat-vague set of instructions to a complete, powerful, comprehensive set of documentation.

Drupal needs this, or something like this; at api.drupal.org, for instance, many of Drupal 6's key functions and hooks are yet not documented. Even more of them have vague documentations: "Implementation of hook_forms()" does not even begin to describe a function.

Let's prove to the world that Drupal can build effective wikis. Let's prove to the world what the Drupal community can do. And let's prove to the world that Drupal can do anything.