I have been trying to round up information on any extensions or hacks that extend the discussion features of mediawiki. Apparently there was talk about the WikiForum extension last year ( http:// meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForum ) and possibly some testing of it on the french Wikipedia site ( http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/ wikitech-l/2005-February/thread.html#27692 ), but the page seems to have been abandoned now.
Can anyone point me towards any continuing work on this extension or any current related work?
thanks
On 5/19/06, a@kid a@kid632.org wrote:
I have been trying to round up information on any extensions or hacks that extend the discussion features of mediawiki. Apparently there was talk about the WikiForum extension last year ( http:// meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForum ) and possibly some testing of it on the french Wikipedia site ( http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/ wikitech-l/2005-February/thread.html#27692 ), but the page seems to have been abandoned now.
Uncyclopedia has a simple threading solution for its "Village Dump": http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Forum:Village_Dump
I'm not sure which software it is based on. There's also the more powerful forum solution by TaxAlmanac mentioned here earlier: http://www.taxalmanac.org/index.php/Discussion_Forum_Index
At least two people have contacted them about it already, but there's been no reaction yet that I know of.
Erik
On 5/19/06, a@kid a@kid632.org wrote:
Can anyone point me towards any continuing work on this extension or any current related work?
I should also mention that there was some talk about a more advanced forum solution as a Google Summer of Code project, but I'm not sure if that is still happening. I'm personally working with a group of partners interested in a wiki forum solution, and we may initiate our own project by June or July if there is no existing codebase which we can work from.
Erik
Erik Moeller wrote:
On 5/19/06, a@kid a@kid632.org wrote:
Can anyone point me towards any continuing work on this extension or any current related work?
I should also mention that there was some talk about a more advanced forum solution as a Google Summer of Code project, but I'm not sure if that is still happening.
There are several SoC applicants for working on LiquidTheads, and a couple look pretty good so there's a good chance we'll have one of these things going. Whether we end up using it for Wikipedia or not I'd love to see a good working implementation available.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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