By Eliyahu on

Is it possible to create a wiki using the book module? http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/book ?

Does the book module support "versions" of edits

Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x

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cation555’s picture

cation555 commented

I haven't seen any option to create "versions of edits" in the book module.

If you want full wiki functionality you could try to integrate the mediawiki cms with drupal through dccforall

Eliyahu’s picture

Eliyahu commented

Yes but, mediawiki has its own seperate discusions and the posts will not included in a drupal search. Does anyone know how to create a "drupal wiki"?

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tazzytazzy commented

Once I have more time (seem to be short on this during the summer/fall months), I'll poke around Drupal's search API and see if I can't integrate something into the mediawiki auth module I wrote. http://wiki.dccforall.com/DCCWikipedia_Authentication

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Christefano-oldaccount commented

You can use the book module as a wiki and invite comments on each "wiki" page. Once comments come flowing in, use the comment_mover module to move the discussion to a forum topic. The node_relativity module may also be helpful here, but that's just a guess. I haven't used it yet.

Use pathauto to automatically write the url aliases for each book page so it looks more like a wiki url scheme.

Then there's the freelinking module that gives you wiki-like input and spontaneous wiki page creation. And there's also the Liquid Wiki filter, which I believe you can still use even if the other Liquid modules are disabled. Right now I don't recommend using Liquid (I ran into a bug where unprivileged user could delete pages), but I'm hoping it will come out of alpha soon.

It's a bit of work, but you can have a wiki with the help of several modules.

If you do this, I suggest going into your theme settings and disabling the "submitted by" information for book pages.

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sepeck commented

There are two recipes floating around on different ways to do this. I would suggets you look at the Liquid module though. It is designed to be a wiki behavior node type. It's still a work in proccess.

Otherwise you will have to be more clear on what you mean by wiki. What you understand and use may be different from what others do.

As to supporting revisions, yes the book module supports revisions. Just set the work flow to default to this or check the box on edit.

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Eliyahu’s picture

Eliyahu commented

1. It appears that the liquid module does not work with 4.7
2. I want to build an editible encyclopedia. This what I mean by wiki.
3. Where can I turn the work flow default for revisions on. Can I lock this option so members cannot overwrite posts without a revision
4. The book module with revsions on, along with using the interwiki module makes "books" into a funtioning wiki that is intergrated into drupal. Can someone play the devels avodcate and inform me what mediawiki can do more than this?

Eliyahu’s picture

Eliyahu commented

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skor’s picture

skor commented

Doesn't show up on the liquid project page, but there is a 4.7 version if you click on View other releases.

Edit: nevermind, I see here that it's still alpha status.

Eliyahu’s picture

Eliyahu commented

Lets say you wanted to use the book module to create a massive user produced encyclopedia.
1. Can the book module handle it?
2. What would happen with the drop-down parent menu? Would it work? Would it scroll?
3. Can the index pages handle long lists?