Oddly, when I think of it as an add-on, he seems like the one best placed to do it. But the fact that he pulled back for the reasons you give is all the more reason for XF to give it a wide berth or, at most, focus on basic functionality that others can build on.
Wiki does not fit into a code base software.
But you do realize that you are basically shooting at yourself by doing this? You are not able to create your own content but rely on some other site's content so you can make a use of it. You also direct the traffic to them by doing this, making them more valuable and yours less. Like why should I stay on your site when I can get what I want on theirs?
Do you think Siropu has 20 men working for him?
Yes, it would be, like RM/MG if it is its own different thing outside of threads. This is a key problem, I am not advocating for something outside of the thread system. No, that would not be used, it must be inside the thread environment to work.
For what do we have permissions? If you have the right permissions and system to revert back, it is like managing threads. For example if something gets added, throw it to the approval queue and done. Permissions regulate the rest. And in cases of problems, we can revert back the threads just like you can do it now with your normal threads since the history is saved.
Exactly, no, you are right. Hence why you don't want to rely on Wikipedia but create your own environment where you have the control. Where your site harvests expertise knowledge one can't even find on Wikipedia. This makes your site distinguished and people with expertise move to your site. I can safely say it because it works on my site like this.
Care to explain like what specifically? Like what templating do you need or what variables?
I think he is confused. You understood it well, yeah.
Wikipedia is like putting a trojen into the xenforo software.
I think you are misunderstanding here.
I am not going to build my own Bible, especially since people are not even going to agree on which translation to use (hint: there's dozens and all have their problems and critics). Resources like BibleGateway exist so that people don't have to put in that effort.
Integrated to the point where it can't be detached? Or would it be something that could be turned on or controlled with permissions like we can question threads or article threads?
Has he built a wiki add-on with automatic keyword linking like you're expecting?
Wikipedia is ran using MediaWiki which is built with.... none other than PHP!
But vBulletin was written in visual basic!
Imagine your Wiki offered all translations. That's the reason to have it. To offer content in one place other sites can't offer. This is how you grow your site. Give me a reason to regularly visit your site.
Anything I propose or anyone else proposes should always be optional like "turn on/off" way of doing it. Forcing is never good, so it would be controlled with permissions and settings to have it on or not, just like question threads.
No, but you were exaggerating like it is a huge task to have keywords and I showed an example of how 1 man does it in his free time (his addon is excellent, can't recommend it enough, but that's not the point).
I know, we are lucky to have his addons and guess what I am using
. But what should we do when Bob leaves? I don't want to imagine the day when he retires or something. Also this is besides my point, there are already 4 very light Wiki-like addons I know of (Ozzy, JulianD, Jaxel, Bob's addons) and 1 real attempt (VaultWiki) and 1 bridge (ThemeHouse). There could be 50 more for all I care. The question is not if there are addons or not, the question is what we would like to see in XF in core. But thanks though, you meant it nicely of course .
Yeah the closest we have seen is the Teams addition to XFRM. Would also like to see something but also would like to see the Teams functionality expanded, at least to the category level.I know, we are lucky to have his addons and guess what I am using
So you're telling me that if i were to edit your stuff you'd be ok with it?Imagine your Wiki offered all translations. That's the reason to have it. To offer content in one place other sites can't offer. This is how you grow your site. Give me a reason to regularly visit your site.
And what would you do if BibleGateway didn't exist? Also 99.9% of all other forum niches don't have a BibleGateway. So what should they do? Yes, build their own database. I think since our sites are text-based, we should focus on that. Wiki is just an example, if you find better working options, be my guest, let us have that instead. Just, if you want to grow your site, you need to channel traffic into your site. How you do that? Google rankings and search results. For that you need content. But lately Google doesn't list your chit chat threads as good results anymore. All you find are articles and wikis and results from reddit/stack exchange.
Anything I propose or anyone else proposes should always be optional like "turn on/off" way of doing it. Forcing is never good, so it would be controlled with permissions and settings to have it on or not, just like question threads.
No, but you were exaggerating like it is a huge task to have keywords and I showed an example of how 1 man does it in his free time (his addon is excellent, can't recommend it enough, but that's not the point).
I know, we are lucky to have his addons and guess what I am using
I agree and I'm sure the majority of today's social media users would agree but I suspect the majority of forum owners posting here would tell you infinite scrolling is the devil's child.
