I have run across a vbulletin forum inside the mediawiki skin also. I can't seem to find it again, but I know that it has the mediawiki sidebar left of the forums, which is my main concern. Google is not my friend today.

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rowan Collins Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 5:38 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Forums inside wiki ?

On 19/09/05, Bass, Joshua L joshua.l.bass@lmco.com wrote:

I have run across several sites that have forums inside the wiki skin. One such example is here: http://www.lost-company.info/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26

How is this achieved? I would like to get the sidebar onto my forums.

Well, apart from looking rather broken in my browser, that site appears to have used a CMS called Mambo which incorporates forums and a wiki - so it's not so much a forum within the wiki, as a forum and a wiki both within something else. Whether MediaWiki is something that comes with Mambo normally, or they've hacked it in there, I can't make out - there doesn't seem to be a straight-forward feature list on the mambo homepage - but basically, they've skinned both so that they look like they go together.