I'll just throw in my two bits: I purchased VaultWiki over a month ago because it will allow me to do unify my website into a single login and layout. The new site is still in production, so I can't show it off yet, but vBulletin CMS + VaultWiki + DownloadsII basically lets me replace Wordpress, phpbb3, drupal, and several mediawiki installations into a single vBulletin-driven site.

When you import your mediawiki installation to VaultWiki it gives you options on how you want your wiki to run. You can leave all the old mediawiki code working at the cost of some server CPU-usage, or you can convert everything to BBCode to make everything run much more smoothly. It works SOOOOOO much better than any mediawiki bridges or other connections than I have tried. Plus you can set things in your forums and CMS to display wiki article titles as automatic links to the appropriate wiki article without having to code in the links yourself. An example would be if you had a wiki for cooking recipes or something and someone posted their cookie recipe, then the words eggs, flour, chocolate, etc (anything you have a wiki article for) would automatically be turned into links to the pages for those topics. It's pretty cool and keeps your readers informed.

As for the customer service, every time I post on their support forum I get a response within a day or so, and sometimes within hours or minutes.

I haven't tried out this Lite version, since I bought the product before it came out, but I definitely suggest it to anyone who is using mediawiki and wants to ditch it for something easier to use and supports a single login.

Hi thincom2000,

I've noticed the same issue. I'm not sure, but it's possible that this issue will be an effect of another mod called "Can't rate his own thread".

Another thing I've noticed, is when I put the latest articles in the vbadvanced Recent Threads module. The URL's of the wiki threads looking like:

http://localhost/vbfinal/forum/http://localhost/vbfinal/forum/showwiki.php?title=XXX

I think this one is an issue of the vault wiki, because any other URL's are perfect in vbadvanced.

It's an issue which takes not the last breath of me, but if the URL's would working is not a mistake.

Anyway thanks a lot for this great mod.

L.R.

I've been debating with myself whether to go premium with this or learn mediawiki. haha

I can't see why there would be a conflict with "Can't rate his own thread" if it was written for vB4. If you can, please link me to the mod.

Yes, I've noticed this for years, and it's very frustrating, but I consider the URL problem to be a bug in vbAdvanced, and I'm not sure what's taking them so long to figure this out:

Why they modify every URL to be prefixed with the board URL using their current method is beyond me. A better solution would be if vbAdvanced at least checked the URL first to see if it was a relative URL. Even better (and much more efficient) would be just to use a BASE tag (of course first check to see that there's not already one). The latter method offers the highest compatibility with other modifications and existing sites.

vBulletin's CMS did it the vbAdvanced way until I showed them how it was a problem (it broke certain stylevar configurations on my test board), and they have fixed it (finally) for 4.0.3.

The reason VaultWiki uses an absolute URL is a feature, not a bug - you can set a different folder path for your wiki pages (in the full version).

The only solution I can see is leaving wiki forums out of the vbAdvanced modules, or making your own module that handles the URLs better (see my rant above). It would be a bigger problem if the wiki's navbar links are broken on vbAdvanced pages.

Hi thincom2000,

You're right, there is no conflict with the other mod. I'm unable to vote a thread.

Another issue I've noticed today when clicking on discussion in an existing thread:

L.R.

Your discussion issue IS a conflict with another mod because it's something using the hook showthread_query_postids.

As for the thread rate problem, I can confirm this, as it was just reported for the commercial release. Assuming I haven't missed any other reports where VaultWiki Lite is directly to blame, I'll be posting an update some time this weekend.

Hi thincom2000,

OK, thank you, I found the mod, it's Article Forums. I will see what I can do.

Now I wait for the voting problem is fixed, then it seems to be OK.

Thanks again

L.R.

Hi there. I have a question. I am running a Forum in 2 Languages. Will the Language of the Wiki (Premium Version) also change if someone changes the Language with the "Quick Language Chooser"?

Not the Article itself. I mean the Tabs (article - discussion - move - delete - watch) and Created by, last edited by, and so on

In terms of the Lite version, the tab phrases, created by, edited by, etc will be changed only if there is a translation for them in the language of the Quick Language Chooser. If the phrase has not been translated, it will use the MASTER LANGUAGE version for that particular phrase.

This is the way most phrased vBulletin mods work, and the full version would be the same way. If you have more questions about the Premium version specifically, you should join the main vaultwiki.org forum or use their contact form.

Posted the 3.0.1 update, which should correct the following issues:
- relative custom BB-Code button paths are broken
- can't rate articles because of message that the article is closed