On 12/03/07, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote: Just (lack of) time and the associated mental space .... -- Regards, Mike

On 12/03/07, Frederik Dohr <fdg001(a)gmx.net> wrote: My point was rather hastily made, but it does stem off a classic irritation I have - and it's the one that is caused by people picking MediaWiki when it's not appropriate for their needs. MediaWiki is a wiki engine that's designed to scale to meet the needs of...hey, look, deja vu. Point is, it *does* have a lower limit, and it *doesn't* implement a lot of things that some people have come to expect us to implement out of project scope. If MediaWiki doesn't do what you want, *and there is something which does, or is more likely to*, then pick the right software for the job! Just because MediaWiki is popular, and just because it powers the largest wiki farms in the world, doesn't mean it's suitable for a fifteen user internal site on some corporate LAN. Rant over. Rob Church

Rob Church exclaimed: And for those wondering what that might be, you might want to glance over TikiWiki: http://tikiwiki.org/ It's a wiki *plus* workflow *plus* trackers *plus* maps *plus* surveys *plus* quizzes *plus* calendar *plus* forums *plus* image galleries *plus* blogs *plus* newsletters *plus* .... etc. etc. etc. I personally use MediaWiki because a plain (but world-class) wiki engine is *almost* what I want, and I'm prepared to do the work to make it go the extra few yards. For people who want a wiki plus tons of other stuff, all pre-packaged and ready to go, TikiWiki looks like a worthy candidate. MediaWiki's extensibility is great, but if you're trying to develop a site where the wiki is only a small part of the eventual software, then it's probably the wrong way to go. (I'm sure there are others, too, but TikiWiki is one I happened to come across. I haven't tried it, use at your own risk, yadda yadda yadda.) Ian

A pretty simple way to handle this is to make an extension that puts an iframe in a wiki page, and have that iframe include a Google calendar or a phpicalendar page. Note that you specify the url for the iframe, so it is not a generic iframe extension with associated security issues. IIRC, Google calendar gives you a url that even tells you what size to make the iframe fit just right. Here's some code you can play with (adjust the output as needed): <?php # iframe. Modified from: # CSO_iFrame - MediaWiki Extension # CSharp-Online.NET (C) 2006 Chang & Wagers Associates # The text between the tags is used as the properties of an iFrame tag. # Usage: <iframe_embed>iframe-properties</iframe_embed> # # To activate the extension, add this line to LocalSettings.php: # include("extensions/iframe.php"); $wgExtensionFunctions[] = "wfIframe"; function wfIframe(){ global $wgParser; $wgParser->setHook ("iframe_embed", "iframe_embed"); # tagname, callback } # the callback function for converting the input text to HTML output #function iframe_test ($text, $argv, &$wgParser) function iframe_embed ($text){ $output = "<iframe src="; switch (strtolower($text)){ case 'phpicalendar': $output .= "http://phpicalendar.org/ phpicalendar"; break; case 'cnn': $output .= "http://cnn.com"; break; default: $output .= "http://hulab.tamu.edu"; } $output .= " width = '100%' height = '800'></iframe>"; return $output; } ===================================== Jim Hu Associate Professor Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics 2128 TAMU Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX 77843-2128 979-862-4054 On Mar 12, 2007, at 3:00 PM, Mike Maughan wrote:

I know. Rob is right. However where I work we have selected MediaWiki as the best tool for what we require. And then it is a good idea to integrate some calendaring functionality into the Wiki (as in, preferable over using another tool). I have found the calendar extension very useful (wikicalendar by Christof Damian. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cdamian/calendar). On 3/12/07, Rob Church &lt;robchur(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- ---- Met vriendelijke groeten / With kind regards Hans Voss --------------------------------------- * Senior Consultant Open Source, Networking and Security * google talk enabled * General Open Sourcerer.