[development] Content Type - wiki

Jason Flatt drupal at oadaeh.net
Thu Feb 1 14:57:16 UTC 2007


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

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