Add-On Releases - THS Wiki - Lightweight wiki for vBulletin

THS Wiki is a lightweight wiki for vBulletin which we built when there were none that integrated smoothly with vBulletin.

What it does

• Uses forum for storage (threads => articles, posts => revisions)
• TinyMCE editor
• Script, object and embed tag suppression
• BBCode
• User banning
• Custom URL formats
• Search within the wiki

Things it does not do

• Templates (the wiki kind, not the vBulletin one)
• Namespaces

Demo

Bugs, questions, feedback? Let us know!

[Cip]

Originally Posted by dbigras

PHP Version 5.2.6-1+lenny3

Hmm, that's odd. I wonder if the query throws a silent error. I'm kind of... flimsy at the moment, so I'm gonna have to get back to you on this one.

Until then I suggest that you run all queries in the Product Installation Code thingies manually to make sure that all tables exist (or simply look it up through MySQL command line/UI). If you don't know how you'll have to wait until I sober up

[dbigras]

The tables exist with the appropriate fields.

thswikisettings with rowid, setting, value
thswikireports with reportid, userid, article, reason, status

But the thswikisettings table had no fields.

I uninstalled and reinstalled it. The fields are now created.

[dbigras]

One day I might get it to work.. *sigh*

When I create articles, it creates it in the forum I selected. Nobody can access that forum. But I cannot see the article in the Wiki.

[saltedm8]

Hi, We have this installed and think it looks great.

One thing we would like to see is the addition of categories so that we can group content logically for those users who wish to browse rather than search.

One idea would be to use forums as the categories.
Parent forum => wiki
child forums => categories
threads => posts
posts => revisions

Do you think this would be possible improvement for version 1.3.1 ??

[Jaxel]

Originally Posted by Cip

We've been brainstorming around templates and related features; We will at some point create a mimic of the templating done by MediaWiki, though only for compability reasons with the most common templates, I'm afraid a more intelligent system (such as doing calculations and whatnot) is out of the question.

Sweet... the moment you guys add templates, I plan on using this... until then... its a no-go for me. I can do without parser functions and calculations... but templates are a MUST for any decent Wiki. Also... categories are a must...

How does this wiki work? Does it actually work as a wiki? Or does it work more like VaultWiki where forums=categories and threads=articles?

[Cip]

Originally Posted by dbigras

One day I might get it to work.. *sigh*

When I create articles, it creates it in the forum I selected. Nobody can access that forum. But I cannot see the article in the Wiki.

Sounds like there would be something wrong with the naming..
What's the article named (title) in the forum, what's the (relative) URL to the wiki article?

Originally Posted by saltedm8

Hi, We have this installed and think it looks great.

One thing we would like to see is the addition of categories so that we can group content logically for those users who wish to browse rather than search.

One idea would be to use forums as the categories.
Parent forum => wiki
child forums => categories
threads => posts
posts => revisions

Do you think this would be possible improvement for version 1.3.1 ??

At the moment THS Wiki does not do Namespaces, you can easily mimic this feature by naming your articles Categoryname:Articlename and then create an article index named just Categoryname. I'm not sure whether we will implement namespaces (categories) or not, we'll see. ;-)

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Sweet... the moment you guys add templates, I plan on using this... until then... its a no-go for me. I can do without parser functions and calculations... but templates are a MUST for any decent Wiki. Also... categories are a must...

How does this wiki work? Does it actually work as a wiki? Or does it work more like VaultWiki where forums=categories and threads=articles?

At the moment there's no cateogries, but all articles are stored in a forum, and a thread is used for each article. Every post in that thread is a revision of the article.

[Jaxel]

Cip... couldn't you do categories/namespaces simply through the tagging system? And then simply parse through the tags in that forum only?

Any word when templates are coming? I've had it up to here with MediaWiki's shitty performance... ready to move asap.

Also... THS Wiki runs under a SINGLE forum ID? Or does it use multiple forums?

[Cip]

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Cip... couldn't you do categories/namespaces simply through the tagging system? And then simply parse through the tags in that forum only?

Tagging might be a bit overkill, but thread prefixes as namespaces/categories is actually a really good idea. (Why didn't I think of that?!)

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Any word when templates are coming? I've had it up to here with MediaWiki's shitty performance... ready to move asap.

Unfortunately not, I've got a fairly major project underway for a concrete facility, so there's not a lot of time for personal projects right now.

Originally Posted by Jaxel

Also... THS Wiki runs under a SINGLE forum ID? Or does it use multiple forums?

Single forum ID. (Why would you want to use more than one? That just clutters your forum list in AdminCP! )

[profanitytalker]

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[masons]

I think this is great! and I got it installed!
But, I have no idea how to use this.

If I have a mainpage, and I add a keyword in the text I would assume it links to the article related to this keyword, but how?

A quick and dirty manual would be great, also for the users!