I've struggled with both approaches - trying to integrate with MediaWiki and using plugins like Liquid or pear-wiki. I've come to the conclusion that integrating with MediaWiki isn't a sustainable approach. It requires too much hacking on both sides and the result still isn't seamless. That said, the Drupal Wiki modules leave a lot to be desired. I'm currently trying to improve pear-wiki to my application's needs. Liquid appears to be dead unfortunately, so pear-wiki + freelinking seems to be the best option right now and I'd encourage anyone considering any development in this area to contribute to these projects. Jason Flatt wrote:
On Thursday February 1 2007 6:18 am, Earnie Boyd wrote:
In discussion of using Drupal for CMS elsewhere, I had a brainy idea as someone objected that Drupal didn't supply a wiki. Thinking out the idea I suggested that perhaps a content type named wiki could be created where revisions are set and the content is published but not promoted where any authenticated user could edit the content. A menu block named Wiki could be created to associate the nodes to. A taxonomy list could be created to help find the wiki content. Let's see I would need a wiki content filter to apply to WikiWiki words.
What am I missing? Perhaps a theme to separate the main content from the comments in a tabbed display similar to MediaWiki. What else?
Earnie P.S.: I know I can use third party software with Drupal, I'm trying to think through this simplistic idea.
Third party software is unnecessary: http://drupal.org/project/pearwiki_filter http://drupal.org/project/freelinking The above two are being used on http://groups.drupal.org/ http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/wiki-recipe-for-freelinking-module