I am half through with all the comments that mention 'wiki' in this forum. But there is'nt anybody who says that lussumo vanilla could\should be used as wiki so far.
well, let's define wiki as wiki says A wiki (IPA: [ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>[1]) is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change most available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a website (see wiki software)
... all modern software have these kind of features. Version control is somehow unique to wikis but usually it just creates unreadable gibberish marked with red and bold. This if from the wikipedia reader point of view. As I have created small wiki for myself to keep notes these 'versions' did'nt help me a bit as a owner.
so, what is the difference between blogs, forums and wikis?
The main difference is that wikis keep a running history of what changes were made, by who, when. Vanilla just accepts the changes and adds a little "edited" tag.
The "editing history" functionality actually would be a nice thing for Vanilla to have anyway, to prevent people from saying offensive things and then removing the evidence. Might make a good extension.
#questions& answers. ask something that is not clear to you. it might turn out as addition to the main post\article. #polls. from the current GWbush wiki "*Major* *progress* was achieved in Iraq *immediately* following Bush's re-election, with *large* turnouts during elections in January and December 2005" Is it a fact or slanted interpretation? Actually I am amazed that this wiki paged is quite neutral
well. one could plug all sorts of things to vanilla. it's tempting.
When you have a community you get neat ideas crystallising, and it's good to have a place to pull those ideas out of the disussions into some kind of collaborative 'book'.
(Personally I think a structured/hierarchic wiki is really useful, which is why I'm dropping in the idea of a 'book' more than a wiki)
The key requirements for that book are: - exportable - version control - comments on each page - access control (if you have them associated with the category, I think that covers access control nicely) - search - add file attachments to anything - an easy way to place images in the pages
The mediawiki extension is a great idea and does 95% of this, but the inability to deny read permissions for each role is a showstopper for what I have in mind.
Does anyone else have a similar need? Or ideas how it could be achieved?
"inability to deny read permissions for each role is a showstopper for what I have in mind. " for what purpose? could you describe the situation? like in some class, for pupils & for teachers?
It's funky but TiddlyWiki is an extraordinarily innovative, elegant app in the spirit of Vanilla. There are many dozens of plugins that have been added to an elegant core. The current beta version (2.1) will be a big-step forward (metadata support, etc). I'm not sure what pulling things out of Vanilla discussions would look like but TiddlyWiki could easily sustain the book concept above, I believe.
I am wondering if there is a way to integrate a wiki as a profile page for my users kind of like a myspace... I've been wanting to do this forever it seems.
"wiki as a profile page for my users kind of like a myspace.." hmmm, I havent created account on myspace but this one makes me curious. ..... how have they done it?
WIki-like posts, communally editable, would be a great and simple addition to Vanilla. Just a matter of a new value for editing permission. Things like dictionaries and bug lists - currently need a maintainer, only because contributors can't access the list.