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1. small world dude, i'm looking at exactly the same thing - actually already have wikkawiki running, and love it, and they're on the path to another release shortly (was emailing the core dudes earlier, dario and co)...

   daveinboston on Thursday, 22 February 2007, 03:02 UTC # |

2. I'm running wikka as well, and have it integrated with Elgg. Its not via a plug-in, but I stole a few ideas from some documentation on how to integrate with phpBB and applied them to Elgg to make it work. I'll try to package it up and provide it (as is, it won't be pretty or well documented, sorry).

   I'm actually planning to move over to mediawiki after seeing what Dave and Ben have done with it here. Its much cleaner and better integrated than what I have done. Our wki is pretty empty right now, so their aren't really any barriers to moving.

   You can see it in action at commun-IT.org

   Tim Hawes on Thursday, 22 February 2007, 03:39 UTC # |

3. Great that would be cool.  Maybe we can all figure out a way to optimize it to make it a approved plug-in.

    I would like to move to mediawiki too.  But my shared host does not have PHP 5 yet which is a requirment for mediawiki.   But WakkaWiki is very nice and it is much smaller so it is not a big deal that I can't move to mediawiki.

    Thanks for sharing!

   chessking on Thursday, 22 February 2007, 17:56 UTC # |

4. I've uploaded a few files that will point someone in the right direction (well, maybe not the right direction, but in a direction none the less) on integrating with wikkawiki. The key pieces are the your elgg db and wikka db be in the same database, and some code changes around line 808 of wakka.class.php that tell wikka to look at the elgg users table. 2 other files show one way to then single sign on from elgg to wikka (in the same way (roughly) that mediawiki plugin does)

   If anyone has the time/inclination to clean this up feel free...

   http://elgg.org/plugins/files/50/32/wikka.zip

   ./tim 

   Tim Hawes on Friday, 23 February 2007, 00:58 UTC # |

5. Thanks, I am going to check this out over the weekend. 

    Also, if any elgg core deveopers can provide some tips on best practices of 3rd part integration so that we don't break anything when updates to elgg comes out it would be appreciated.

   chessking on Friday, 23 February 2007, 16:34 UTC # |

6. tim, your site looks great - may i ask what utility you are using for that resources link directory? i'd love to add something like that as well (simple categories, simple suggest url/topic item etc)
   
   
   as for mediawiki, i don't mean to sound like a twit here, but how much work is required to fully integrate into the actual design and flow as has been done here at elgg versus simply combining login tables to ease administration?

   daveinboston on Monday, 26 February 2007, 04:28 UTC # |

7. I'm using a script called particle links for the "Resources" bookmarking:

   http://www.particlesoft.net/particlelinks/

   I've been mulling over seeing if I can adapt Scuttle (scuttle.org) to integrate with Elgg, but haven't started anyting. I like scuttle because it support the delicious API, which opens up some cool possibilies and is more "social" than particlelinks.

   My my needs, a "close enough" integration of mediawiki was sufficient. What Dave/Ben have done here is awesome, but a ton of finnicky work with CSS that I just didn't have the patience for. The mediawiki CSS structure is pretty horrific (IMHO). If anyone has found a nice "clean" mediawiki skin that would be a better starting point for an elgg integration (better than the monobook skin anyway) I'd love to hear about it.

    ./tim

   Tim Hawes on Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 12:55 UTC # |