There may be a solution out there. The forum is still in alpha, and I have just started playing with it. I found this info on their mailing list, they also have some more info that is available from links within the message. It is BBPress by the makers of WordPress.
http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/bbdev/2005-July/000188.html
Aaron
Message: 3 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:13:36 +0300 From: Yaroslav Fedevych jaroslaw@linux.org.ua Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Forum for MediaWiki To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org Message-ID: 20050906121336.GA29719@fly.osdn.org.ua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 02:00:32PM +0200, Simon Wagner wrote:
Hello, I am working in a group, that works with MediaWiki and a Forum. The Forum should be compatible to MW, that means, if you have logged in MW you are logged in the Forum and if you have logged in in the Forum you are logged in MW. Well, our plan was that I should create a Forum in PHP and that the forum should look like MW. But now I am fed up with it :(. To many problems in the design and problems with IE and Firefox. Unfortunately I am the only PHP programmer in our team :P. The others are all writers ^^. Is there already a Forum thats compatible with MW and OpenSource?
AFAIK, no. You will most probably need to write your own integration routines to use the same user base.
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