Integration with vBulletin - vbWiki Standard - vBulletin+MediaWiki integration

Update:

9/28/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC5 is now available for download. This version adds compatibility with MW 1.11.0+

5/17/2007: vbWiki Std v1.3 RC4 is now available for download. This version is compatible with MW 1.10.0+ and vBulletin 3.6.6+

1/21/2007: vbWiki Std v1.0.2 RC3 is now available for download. This version fixes the 'session error' that used to happen on some installations of MediaWiki 1.9.x.

Description:

vbWiki Standard is the lite version of vbWiki Pro. vbWiki Standard allows the integration of vBulletin and MediaWiki user authentication.

(vbWiki Pro is a commercial product that, in addition to the functionality found in vbWiki Standard, provides full skin integration, enhanced user management, Admin CP, editing of wiki skin in vBulletin's Style Manager, among other features.)

Why should you add a wiki to your forums?

Forums are great for community building with their high level of interactivity. Successful forums have hundreds or thousand of concurrent users creating and replying to threads.

However due to this very reason the more your forums grow the more "collective knowledge" is scattered throughout the thousands (or hundreds or millions) of threads in your forums. Making it difficult for users to find and use.

A wiki is not that good at community building, but it is a great medium to centralize this 'collective knowledge'. Enabling you to create an 'ecosystem of information' (quoting pipin ) maintained and contributed by your users.

The idea behind vbWiki (both Standard and Pro) is to enable the seamless integration between these two packages (vBulletin and MediaWiki) side-by-side in your community. You (and your users and community) get the best of both worlds.

Or so the theory goes...

Features:

• Single sign-on for vBulletin and MediaWiki (users log in only once)
• Supports mapping of vBulletin usergroups to MediaWiki user roles
• Users viewing wiki pages are shown in vBulletin's "What's going on?" section (both guests and registered users)
• Supports auto-authentication, users who choose to be "remembered" are logged in upon visiting the site to both vBulletin and MediaWiki.

Installation:

These installation instructions do not apply to vbWiki Pro. Refer to vbWiki Pro installation instructions for more information.

MediaWiki and vBulletin must be installed and properly working before installing vbWiki. MediaWiki can be downloaded here.

• Create a new directory in your forums directory named vbWiki.
• Upload the content of the installation package to this new directory.
• Rename the file vbWiki_Init.php-dist to vbWiki_Init.php
• Open the file LocalSettings.php found in your MediaWiki directory in a text editor and at the very end find the following line and remove it if present:

PHP Code:

?> 


• Add the following code at the end of the file (entering the correct directory path):

PHP Code:

require_once "/absolute/path/to/your/forums/vbWiki/vbWiki_Init.php"; 


Troubleshooting:

• Last installation step: Click Mark as Installed..

If you run into any trouble installing vbWiki (blank page, logins not working, etc.), follow these instructions to temporarily turn on vbWiki's Diagnostic Tools.

Open vbWiki_Init.php (or vbWikiPro_Init.php) and find this line:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = false; 


And change it for this:

PHP Code:

$run_vbWikiPro_diag_tools = true; 


Navigate to the wiki home page, and see the results.

Changes:

• 0 vBulletin files to Edit
• 1 MediaWiki file to Edit
• 10 vbWiki Files to Upload

Requirements:

• vBulletin v3.5.4 (version 3.6.x recommended)
• MediaWiki 1.6.8+ (recommended 1.7.x+).
• PHP4+

Uninstalling...

• To uninstall vbWiki Standard simply remove (or comment) the line added to LocalSettings.php.
• Optionally remove the directory vbWiki from your forums directory.

[Pirat3]

I get a Testing forum integration error, what is wrong?

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by iRO Wiki

We've gotten it to work with 3.7 and 1.11.x. vB Wiki currently does not seem to support MW 1.12.0 or higher.

Can anyone confirm this?

[xyzz]

The whole nuhit website is down.. anyone have any info on this? I just found this hack yesterday and would like to purchase the pro version.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by xyzz

The whole nuhit website is down.. anyone have any info on this? I just found this hack yesterday and would like to purchase the pro version.

This mod was long ago abandoned. Read through the thread. I'm getting ready for the 3.7 vB upgrade and and hoping what I have will continue to work. But - I expect the integration will fail in the near future if not on this vB upgrade in a future mediawiki upgrade.

Originally Posted by iRO Wiki
We've gotten it to work with 3.7 and 1.11.x. vB Wiki currently does not seem to support MW 1.12.0 or higher.

I'm making plans to disassociate the two, unfortunately. I'd pay US$100 for the mod to be updated because I like it a lot. But in my case, not many people really update my site's wiki so it's of questionable value other than what I put in or pay someone to put in.

[VICOS]

What a mess re: Nuhit. The forums say the developer has disappeared and/or can't be reached. Yet, they're still taking people's money to buy licenses of the now unsupported code w/o clear disclosure of this fact at time of sale. And there is some guy on the forum who is a moderator but says he is not with Nuhit.

This is the problem with having to go to a third party for a solution. Integration needs to be provided by either vBulletin or MediaWiki or both in full cooperation.

[vbem2]

I've fudged with this for several hours and can't seem to figure it out...

I'm running mediawiki, vb, and vbwiki, but am having issues getting the login or the diagnostics to work.

There is no subdomain issue, and the forums are here: http://ecomodder.com/forum and the wiki here: http://ecomodder.com/wiki It wasn't logging in, so I tried to turn on the diagnostics by changing the value to 'true' and then navigating to the main page, but I don't see anything...

I then went here: http://ecomodder.com/forum/vbWiki/vbWiki_Tools.php and saw this:

Current directory... /home/ecomodder/public_html/forum/vbWiki
Wiki Root directory ($IP)... [Not Set]
Forum Absolute Path ($g_Arcane_Forum_Local_Dir)...
vbWiki Pro DIR... LUX_DIR
vbWiki Pro PLUGIN DIR... LUX_PLUGIN_DIR

Testing paths and forum installation
Verifying Forum Absolute Path... Directory NOT FOUND: ''

Could this be the issue? If so, how do I fix it? Sorry for the trouble, thanks.

[solidlink]

Hopefully you will work on 1 for 3.7 versions of vbulletin

[peterle1]

Originally Posted by solidlink

Hopefully you will work on 1 for 3.7 versions of vbulletin

I am afraid he won't ...

[Warlord]

I installed this with little difficulty, but trying to get it to work like Wikipedia was an entirely different story.

I want the {{reflist}} template and other common templates to work for my site. What do I do?

[Michael Morris]

I just installed this to vbulletin 3.7.2 and Media Wiki 12.0 without major issue (I had one, but it was the fault of a package of my own devising, not the bridge itself).