Hi,
I have just installed this hack and think it is a great way of linking vBulletin with Mediawiki. By limiting access to Forum members, I can now forget about unwelcome spam and vandalism on my Wiki.
I tried to install it over two separate servers (Wiki on one web server and forum on another), but could not get that to work. I am moving the wiki domain to the same server as my forum instead.
There is one issue I hope can be solved. On my forum, I insist all members use their real names (e.g. "John Smith") as usernames. As it is a closed forum and non-members cannot see the usernames, this is no problem. However, as soon as my forum members start writing Wiki entries, their username, e.g. real name is displayed on the Wiki.
Could you implement a system where instead of the forum usernames, the Wiki optionally displays a pseudonym instead of the forum username. This could be an optional feature and use either a VB User Profile Field, to store the pseudonym, or alternatively the system automatically generates a pseudonym from the username (or both).
Some people do not want to have their real name displayed next to public Wiki entries and the way the system is setup now, there is no way of preventing this when using your mod.
Regards
Peter
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