Knowledge base
 

i think i kind of knowledge base would be great.
Features:

• The Artcels can be sorted in categories
• comment feature
• users can upload pictures and files to improve their articels

Obviously it should be a kind of wikipedia for vb. :nervous:

seems like a cool idea to me

With wikipedia anybody can make alterations to your articles - Is this feature desired by you for this knowledge base?

Give me a couple of weeks and I can have a beta knowledge base somewhat operational: I'll call it vBPedia :D

Chris

I'm enthusiastic about the idea of seeing a vB KB, but I'm wondering if it might be worth considering bridging vB (userbase, some UI) with existing KB systems instead. Ostensibly less work on the vB side I would think, and would permit you to leverage all that KB development which has already taken place. It would also further extend vB's attractiveness to folks who are currently using some other KB and are interested in adding a forums platform, just as the CMS bridges and integration efforts are starting to do.

Actually i prefer real mods ,cause sometimes bridges are problematic.

@Chris M
Great !
I think this would be one of the best Mods ever !

The wikipediafeature would be a nice extra !

//excuse my bad english , it's a foreign language to me //



added a poll

vBPedia ... sounds great :)
Cant wait :nervous:

so anybody ,who wants to code it ?

Deffo putting a yes on this .... wanna learn to code and could be a good resource :)

If chris has already started on it, I could help :) Otherwise, I'd code it - no problem ;) Just need to straighten out whether he is going to do it or not.

It is currently about, ooh 5% done since I read this thread 2 days ago :)

I also have 2 other projects that are taking a forerunner so this will probably be another week before any major progess is made :)

If you want to help Dark, register on my forums and we can code the project together :)

So far there are 2 versions planned; vBPedia lite, and vBPedia :)

As "lite" suggests it is free for all and will be a lesser version of vBPedia - The full version will be slightly more advanced with more features, but for a minimal charge due to the amount of coding and functionality that will be in place - However vBPedia will not be constructed until the Lite version has been done, and there will be no obligation to upgrade :)

Chris

I registered.

I've added you as a Moderator in the specific forums - You should gain access to staff areas too, where I'll bring you up to speed (when I get round to it) on the developments, and we can discuss features etc :)

Chris

Definitely interested in this as well. I'd like to help out as well, but I'll probably be outclassed, eheh.

Sounds good. Just send me a PM when you "get round to it", ok? :)

i need this, bigtime

i could translate the hack to german or russian .

COunt me in (so thats a YES)

development status ?

How is this looking? I would love a KB for my site.

I am wondering what kind of frame work you guys are looking at? Is it just a collection of posts?

personally, I would like to have the option to define the question and answer, then have it list all related posts that pertain to it.

Also letting user vote on articles relevancy to the search would be a plus, so when users searches for XYZ, the top matching documents with the most votes comes up first, it make it like an intelligent system similiar to:
http://mindmeld.sourceforge.net/mmsf/index.php

But having an option to define terms or search words first then related posts would be ideal!

anything new ;)