MediaWiki vBulletin Integration

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by ThomasR

Just to say that I bought vbwiki Pro and it's integration is pretty well done with mediawiki and vb. I also had some problems with language transcoding (mediawiki is UTF-8 and my forum ISO-8859-1) and ElfMage did a fix in a couple of days.
I'll post soon the link of my wiki soon, because it's not officially open.

1. How do we determine if our forum is UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1?
2. 'did' a fix in a couple of days or 'will' have a fix in a couple of days?

[ThomasR]

language settings. English and french are in this encoding. It's not a problem for english in fact, but languages with accent (like french > ? ? ? ?, etc.) it's a problem. Then, now, everything is fine.

He " did" Sorry for my english

In attachement, two screen capture (forum in french language). The only problem I have is the integration of the Translate plugin for vb, which forward to the forum and not wiki (I just saw it)

I still have to finish to edit my templates, to fix some default wiki colors that doesn't suit my forum template.

[Smitty]

OK - Thanks. I may buy this. But - I also would want the language settings correct for UTF-8 because although my forum is in english, I think people do use 'non-standard' characters in their names from time to time so I'd rather be prepared than trying to fix things later.

No problems with your english - Heck, all I can read, write and speak (for all intents and purposes) is english. I just wanted to make sure of what what was being said.

Nice looking Wiki, by the way! Thanks for the screen shots!

[0ptima]

Originally Posted by ThomasR

He " did" Sorry for my english

Your Englisg is excellent. SVP poste un lien pour ton wiki. Merci

[ElfMage]

Thomas, thanks for the positive feedback.

Smitty, you can tell if your forum is using UTF-8 or an ISO character encoding by looking at your 'Language Pack' settings in your forums' Admin CP.

However, starting with vbWiki Pro v1.0.1 this is no longer an issue. You don't need to make any changes to your forums' setup.

[MarkJW]

Whoa, I'm definitely buying vbWiki Pro once my Paypal money move goes through. I have to have this for my fansite. So awesome, thanks! I wish there was a phpAuction mod like this, lol... One can dream.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

Smitty, you can tell if your forum is using UTF-8 or an ISO character encoding by looking at your 'Language Pack' settings in your forums' Admin CP.

OK - It's currently set to ISO character encoding. Thanks for the info.

[dutchbb]

Yes I might be interested in this too, wanted to use mediawiki anyway, but integrating vbulletin is even better

[Smitty]

I got the pro version - So far so good!

[kontrabass]

Originally Posted by ElfMage

For some reason the 'instant e-mail notification' did not work on this thread. Weird.

Anyways, we launched vbWiki Pro last week. This is a commercial product. A more lightweight version (vbWiki) is available as a free download from our site: www.nuhit.com

Our company got renamed/restructured, and this is why our website url changed.

Internally we have two teams, mine is working on products related to forums, wikis, CMS, etc. And vbWiki Pro is one of these products...

Question: When this hack is no longer supported (god forbid), is the wiki database going to be useable standalone? I mean, does your hack alter the media wiki db in a way that will make my entire wiki obsolete when vbWiki is no longer supported with some future version of VBulletin?

Thanks