There are several Drupal modules that can be used to implement wiki-functionality with Drupal. However, these modules are scattered and sometimes hard to find. It would greatly improve the ease of finding these modules, especially for new users, if a 'wiki' category for modules was added. This would require very little work, and would make Drupal much more attractive for people looking to create a wiki-like website.

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gábor hojtsy’s picture

gábor hojtsy
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Instead of adding arbitrary categories like this, IMHO we should somehow enable free tagging of projects, so people can tag stuff better. This would complement the controlled category structure, but IMHO would spread like wildfire.

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bonobo commented

Note: My comment is focused just on the wiki functionality, and the usefulness of the wiki category --

I'm not addressing Gábor's comment re freetagging of projects as I haven't thought that through to the point where I could say anything useful :)

WRT a wiki category, it would be useful, but, IMO, not as useful as good documentation regarding the different filters available (including, btw, the Flexifilter) and the different wiki approaches (Liquid vs Wikitools vs Core Revisions, and the role of the Diff module in the equation).

Adding a wiki category would simplify finding the modules, but it would not help a new user know how to use them -- ie, when should Drutex be used, vs latexgen vs jsmath, or the difference between pearwiki and freelinking, etc.

So, I think the category would be a good first step, but without documentation it would just serve as a place to center the confusion.

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cwgordon7 commented

Regarding the freetagging idea: I immediately like it, but it will take a lot of management in its current state to stop duplicate terms ("Taxonomy", "Taxonomy-related", "Taxonomy management"), etc. Maybe consider using something like the synonym collapsing or term merge module to handle it— although I'm not sure it's the best idea to be adding additional modules to drupal.org. Other opinions?

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huang_cn commented

i am looking for free tagging that could be used for wiki style links. which convert keywords in node content link to freetags. this could replace some wiki function. anybody know how to?

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silverwing commented

-1 for wiki term, best served for freetagging.

Anyone else?

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cwgordon7 commented
Status: Active » Fixed

This is clearly not an issue anymore because we now have freetagging.

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This is clearly not an issue anymore because we now have freetagging.

I don't see free tags for projects; where are they?

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.