If you want to use a wiki as a collaborative content repository for a class or group, but still want to use a blog to manage discussion and communication within your class, you can have the best of both worlds. UCalgaryBlogs.ca now has a plugin that lets you embed live versions of any MediaWiki hosted wiki page (including wiki.ucalgary.ca and wikipedia.org among many others) right in your blog post. This is not a copy/paste snapshot, but a live embedded version of the wiki page. Any edits made to the wiki page will be automatically displayed on the blog post.
Here’s a quick screencast to demonstrate the process:
If you want to use the wiki embedding functionality, you’ll need to go to your Plugins page for your blog’s admin interface, and enable the “Wiki, Inc.” plugin. Then, the blog post authoring form will have the “Append Wiki Page” section available at the bottom of the editing page.
The process also works for Pages as well as Posts, so if you want to flesh out a course structure using Pages on a blog, you can embed live versions of wiki pages on those as well.
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Hey Guys. Some related news (in the sense that readers are probably interested in this) we have just launched a plugin called WordPress Wiki Plugin.
This plugin works with WordPress 2.7 and adds real Wiki functionality to your site without having to integrate another third party wiki application
Try it out now: http://www.instinct.co.nz/wordpress-wiki-plugin/
Dan, that plugin looks awesome! I’ve grabbed a copy to play with, and it works really well. I also use the User Roles Manager plugin, so it was easy to get around the commented-out user capabilities sections of the plugin. Very cool. I’ll definitely be rolling that out!
D’Arcy, thanks for that.
Can I work with you to document the step by step instrutions on how you got around the user capabilities issue. Please email me dan [at] instinct.co.nz
What I want to do is blog your instructions on the Wiki page – it seems to be a logic place to keep that information.
Ciao,
Dan
@dan I used the Role Manager plugin to enable additional functionality for users. It’s a bit of a hack, in that it bypasses the security model, but it kinda works.
http://www.im-web-gefunden.de/wordpress-plugins/role-manager/
@ D’Arcy, cheers mate! We just finished a new version with a ‘My Contributions” widget. I’ll play with that plugin…
Next we need to nail [[easy linking]]. Also to all the WordPress e-Commerce people worried that we are not focusing on the WordPress e-Commerce Plugin.. don’t worry a seperate team is working on the WordPress Wiki Plugin
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Hello,
The functionality looks fantastic! I was wondering, where can the ‘Wiki, Inc.’ plugin be downloaded?
Thanks.
It’s available through the WordPress plugins repository at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wiki-append/
Thank you very much for providing the link – especially so promptly!
Hello,
the possibility to integrate a wiki page into a blog post sounds great. We would like to use the wiki-append plugin for our blog and have already installed it. However, we always get the following error message:
“Sorry but http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Session_on_Webconferencing could not be appended to your page.”
Is it necessary to do further configuration after the installation? Or could it be a problem with the wordpress version (ours is 2.9.2)?
Thank you.
@Ulrike – I’m not sure. It may be a Mediawiki version mismatch? Check with the developers of the plugin, at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wiki-append/