Wiki on forum

Eric_ said:
If you want a wiki and not just collaborative editing of very basic articles I guess there's no way around a real wiki like MediaWiki.
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Yup, you're not going to see a knowledge management system like SMW or even Cargo with a forum-based wiki. And MediaWiki will be maintained as long as we live.
 
Any new advice in this regard? We are looking for a wiki eventually. Looking like VaultWiki is still the best bet/only supported?
 
Wing said:
Any new advice in this regard? We are looking for a wiki eventually. Looking like VaultWiki is still the best bet/only supported?
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Vault Wiki is supported, but every time I have used it there have been site/workflow breaking bugs that makes it unusable for a productive wiki.

@Mike C / @ThemeHouse had a MediaWiki bridge, but it is no longer available.

Jaxel has his lite wiki, but it is very very very limited.

I temporarily settled on Showcase (from @Bob) with a lot of heavy modification and planning, but my pages are more about presentational data and information than just pure text or anything else.
 
BassMan said:
Hello,

I'm thinking of implementing some kind of a wiki system on one of my forums. I really like the idea of collaboration.

I'm aware of some 3rd-party add-ons (or maybe I missed some) that implement a wiki or some sort of it to XenForo, but not sure if I'll rely on a 3rd-party add-on for such an important part of the forum. Ideally, XenForo Resource Manager could be extended for collaboration as a wiki system. Now you can add team members, but that is not the same.

Another idea is to add some other wiki (i.e. MediaWiki) on a subdomain, but we all know there's a problem because users will need to register again, maintain another platform, etc.

Just wondering what you use for a wiki (if you use it). We already have a Resource Manager, but need something for the collaboration part to create some kind of knowledge base with help of forum members.

Thank you for your inputs.
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Another way to solve this is if we can get XF to support some standard protocol that SSO providers use. Then you can use your auth/SSO database for XF and whatever other wiki you want to use. That gives more freedom and robustness. We just need to get a reply from any XF dev here:
xenforo.com

Single Sign On (Connect XF with XF, WordPress, etc)

It would be really awesome if we would be able to connect multiple XF installs. Or a XF install with Wordpress, Magento, MediaWiki, etc. Members would be able to use multiple sites and scripts with the same login or while they keep being logged in. XF 2.1 has a REST API. Please extend this to...
xenforo.com xenforo.com
 
If you need a serious wiki, then Mediawiki is the way. Themehouse has a great bridge they sell privately, but it's not cheap and you'll need to do much of your own css.
 
I'm always thinking that if it's not an official add-on, you might risk too much if you rely heavily on it, especially with those integration add-ons. In that case, I would still rather go with separate sing-ins. It's not convenient, but workable.

Just think if such an add-on were to become unmaintainable. You could be left with a broken forum.
 
azzurro said:
I have XF 2.2 auth working with Mediawiki 1.35 with the following:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:XenForoAuth
https://xfrocks.com/resources/bd-api-for-xenforo-2-0.36/

The XenForoAuth extension has not supported for a while so a bit risky for the future but currently works.
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The basic XenForo login auth is still working with the latest MediaWiki release. MediaWiki has its own community and a lot of supported add-ons so I'm pleased with the basic integration.
 
Wikipost allows collaboration.

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WikiPost [Paid]

JulianD submitted a new resource: WikiPost - Let your members edit the first post of any thread in your community This is a simple but effective addon to increase collaboration in your community. First of all, this is not a full blown Wiki in the sense that it doesn't support most of the...
xenforo.com xenforo.com

Basically the first post is a wiki entry and users can have permissions to edit and change the first post.

It also has integration with xenforo search
 
There are two nice add-ons to use the first post of a thread that can be edited by specific users.

Both add-ons need new tables and/or table_fields.

My need is different, so I created a new add-on. I will publish it in the next hours, I think.
 
The add-on is finished and in use, but I still have to add some smaller things ... maybe tonight.


I have added the function "Watch" to the product manager, but i have never tested it.
You may want to test it?

XF2 Add-ons

Ad-ons for the xenforo forum system
www.xencafe.com
 
I tried pain, main and vain, and it works on the English page.
What can I do to recreate your error-message, please?
 
The wrong phrase, I can't see; I see

Log In | Register.


The problem in the first picture is the validation for an URL-field of Xenforo. (=> custom fields, text field, validate as Url-field)
Try https://... instead www.something.com or let the fields empty. But I should add https:// to the explain_phrase.

Picture 2 and 3 have no value inside the form? If you send it empty, you get an error.

I also don't have email, password, authentication ... it seems that the phrases are not used here.
Sorry, I don't have any idea what there should be wrong.


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