[support] current wiki tools in drupal

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Mar 10 13:23:22 UTC 2008


Quoting Ari Davidow <aridavidow at gmail.com>:

> We're beginning to describe a Drupal project that we feel is "wiki-ish" and
> I am thoroughly confused as to what would be needed to implement a "wiki"
> using drupal. It looks like wikitools provides some filters to translate
> between wiki markup and regular html, but for our purposes, that is the
> piece we care about least. (We intend to use tinyMCE or equivalent for
> markup--the users of this project will not be any happier with wiki markup
> than with html.)
>
> So, what makes a page a wiki? We are thinking of a few primary elements:
>
> 1. The ability of any registered user to edit the page in a browser. (Note:
> Any registered Drupal user with appropriate permissions can do this with any
> Drupal page, as well.)
>
> 2. The ability to view the page's history and to roll back changes easily.
> (This may also be built into Drupal?)
>
> 3. The ability to create a new, blank page by creating a link to it.
>
> Are we really just talking about a standard Drupal book? When other people
> say 'wiki,' to what more are they referring (or is the "what more" wiki
> markup language?)
>

Surely you know how to Google[1].  If you had you would have found a 
recipe[2] at the top of the list.

[1] http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wiki+howto+site%3Adrupal.org
[2] http://drupal.org/node/203502


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