[Mediawiki-l] Forums inside wiki ?

[Bass, Joshua L]

I have already linked my forum members to the wiki member database. I
really just need to know how to export the Wiki Navigation toolbar. Is
there a direct approach to calling the navigation box from a separate
html page? I am guessing <? Php include something?



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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rowan Collins
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 6:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Forums inside wiki ?

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

Well, reproducing that ought to be pretty easy in any reasonably
skinnable forum software - the sidebar is only a bunch of links, after
all, and doesn't need to actually touch the wiki database. And making
them visually match is just a case of playing with CSS for long
enough.

The hard part is if you want to do things like use the users from one
database for both pieces of software - the mailing list archives
should reveal lots of people who've at least attempted this... (use
"site:mail.wikipedia.org" in a Google/Yahoo/whatever query)

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]
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