[Mediawiki-l] Forum software (e.g. phpBB or similar)integration to replace talk pages

[MHart]

FWIW, I'm interested in this topic as well. I'm planning on creating exactly 
this sort of integration, and phpBB looks like a good tool to use. One thing 
I'll be creating is a linked search - the results on the wiki will include a 
forum search, and vice versa.

- MHart
- http://taxalmanac.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt England" <mengland at mengland.net>
To: "Julian Rendell" <wandering.womble at gmail.com>; "MediaWiki announcements 
and site admin list" <mediawiki-l at Wikimedia.org>
Cc: <mengland at mengland.net>
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Forum software (e.g. phpBB or similar)integration 
to replace talk pages


> I'm not sure if I know the entire context of this thread, however, I'll 
> give my 2 cents:
>
> I think the entire world of discussion management mechanisms (email lists, 
> forums, Usenet newsgroups...and now wiki talk pages) are far too 
> segragated.  I believe that underlying designs should have a concept of a 
> "vehicle-independent" conversational/discussion content (the discussion 
> threads) with delivery-specific mechanisms (email and forums and 
> newsgroups, etc).
>
> Unfortunately, hardly anyone or anything does this...and the world goes 
> merrily on with all sorts of segragated conversations about the same 
> things but divided only because one group conversation is a newsgroup, one 
> is a web forum, one is a wiki, and one is a mailing list.
>
> I have been on a short-term mission to find things that bridge the gap, 
> and the only thing I've been successful with thus far is 
> http://mail2forum.com (and its cousin named CM2F) that links email lists 
> (of any flavor, Mailman, ezmlm, majordomo, etc) to phpBB forums.  (I tried 
> to get the vBulletin people to do this, but I was inexplicably rebuffed, 
> imho).
>
> I would LOVE to get my MediaWiki site to "bridge" its talk pages into my 
> phpBB forum (and therefore my GNUMailman lists); life would be much easier 
> for my communities (which are currently software development groups behind 
> a firewall).
>
> For the medium term (like 3 months to 2 years) I think this is feasible by 
> doing the mail2forum.com kind of stuff.  However, for the long term 
> "delivery agnostic" bridge control of discussions, I was thinking of 
> throwing a site together for a collaboration point for the leaders of all 
> the different tools and asking them to help develop a specification for 
> how to do this...if everyone could manage to buy in to this principle. 
> Who knows, maybe someone else is trying to do this...but I haven't seen 
> it, and I've looked a LONG time.
>
> For now I'm at least trying to leverage mail2forum.com.  I anxiously away 
> anything that could integrate MediaWiki talk pages into phpBB as well.
>
> -Matt
>
>
> At 6/3/2005 04:57 PM, Julian Rendell wrote:
>>Hi there-
>>I've done some searching and seen some mock-ups, and a few hints that
>>people have succeeded, but does anyone have a concrete guide for how
>>to integrate some kind of forum software into mediawiki to replace the
>>talk pages?
>>
>>Or I guess a second best would be the ability to easily (e.g. via
>>interwiki?) integrate a seperate forum site into mediawiki links, and
>>also an easy way to create wiki-like links in the forum posts that
>>link back to the wiki.
>>
>>Any suggestions appreciated-
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Julian
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