A clash/bug and some questions

[Webbstre]

First off, thanks for the help getting my test wiki installed and imported. It went through with the new download and the pages were imported. Now I have a few questions:

1- I found a small clash pretty quickly. The VB4 Mod Ultimate Quick Reply causes this BBCode mess after VaultWiki is installed:

Any suggestions on how to make it work? Hooks or something?

2- It says that enabling legacy support options will have a significant impact on site performance. Is that in RAM, CPU, or both? Would it be wise to try to convert old articles to the new code instead of enabling legacy support?

3- What are social group masks and Group Start pages?

4- I notice several places in the instruction guide it has linked words, which if you highlight over it will give a small preview from the wiki page. How do I set that up myself? Does each word need to be done manually or can the site be set so that any time a wiki word is included it creates a link?

5- My wiki's images were stored in two places: a common "media" mediawiki installation to share images across languages, and several images that were uploaded to the English wiki by people who didn't know what they were doing. Do I need to manually upload those images somewhere for them to show up in the imported wiki and how do I do that?

6- I like the homepage thing under the wiki because it lets me create wikis organized by language (i think), but when I click the word "English" I want it to go to a special homepage rather than a random listing of pages. How do I do that?

Thanks again! I'll have more questions the more I test stuff out.

[pegasus]

1 - You can add support for Advanced Quick Reply by editing vault/special_plugins_newpost.php. Find:

VaultWiki code is only viewable by license holders.

Replace with:

VaultWiki code is only viewable by license holders.

2 - Because legacy support relies on a different kind of parser, loading (and using) both parsers on the same page is going to use extra memory and CPU. It's just logical - but the legacy parser makes heavy use of regular expressions which are known to be "slow." We always recommend trying to convert old articles rather than enabling legacy support.

3 - Since Beta 4, VaultWiki allows vBulletin's Social Groups to be given wiki permissions so that the groups can create group-related wiki pages. Group Start pages are simply the group-related page that serves as their wiki home page. You can read more on specific settings by clicking the ? in the options menu.

4 - By default, hovering over words that have been linked to a wiki page will show a small preview from the wiki page. It's also possible to auto-link words to the wiki page without doing anything yourself. You can turn on this ability on a per-forum basis (via the Forum Manager), and on a content-type basis (see Settings > Options > VaultWiki: General Settings).

5 - If your vault/config_import_mediawiki.php file was configured correctly - and they were in the same wiki database, and you used the most recent version of the import script, then your images should have been uploaded automatically. If your images were stored in a separate wiki database, you can import these separately by running the importer again using the appropriate config settings for your setup. Of course, you can always spend the time re-uploading those images one by one.

6 - You can set a wiki "Main Page" for individual forums by going to the Forum Manager and filling in "Forum Link" with the URL of the wiki page you want to use.

[Webbstre]

Thanks for your help! The Quick Reply bug was fixed with the code you gave me, and I figured out how to set a main page. Now I have two new questions

1- Is it possible to make another "Special" page? I like having the Wiki lead to a list of languages, but I would also like to have another similar page that has links to different special areas of my site.

2- Is there a way to set up a sidebar for the wiki area?

[pegasus]

1 - It is not currently possible to set up a custom wiki home page. This is something we are considering adding very very soon. See: http://www.vaultwiki.org/issues/1200/

2 - There is no built-in way to build a sidebar for the wiki area. There are some good vBulletin mods that create sidebars, and some users have had success using them with VaultWiki, although I have yet to see this done in vBulletin 4.