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I want a mediawiki but instead with vBulletin. Is vaultwiki for me? I was going to buy nuhit but it's unsupported...is this one actually going to be and stay reported for years to come?
Also, what did it mean by "unprotected" and "protected" not being a feature of vaultwiki?
I want some pages to be locked out from guests and users editing...
Also...want to add categories and subcategories and hierarchy system, does vaultwiki support it?
Please answer my questions asap.
Thanks.
Because this is a site that we intend to keep running for many years to come, any software used on our site will continue to be developed and supported for that duration. VaultWiki is one of these packages.
VaultWiki is slightly different from MediaWiki in that it runs natively on vBulletin and does not use the MediaWiki software. Pages are incorporated with vBulletin's forum/subforum hierarchy. VaultWiki uses vBulletin's forum and usergroup permissions so you can lock out pages in certain forums from certain usergroups. "Unprotected" and "protected" (on a per article basis) are not features of VaultWiki at this time, but this is still possible on a per-forum basis.
A Categories addon was recently released which supports categorizing articles into multiple groups. This is not usually possible with the standard forum hierarchy.
What is "protected" and "unprotected" - can articles be locked/closed to prevent editing?
And tell me more about the categories system please.
I believe locking/closing can be accomplished by closing the thread as normal.
The categories system is similar to MediaWiki's. NickyPhils described it well in this post: https://www.vaultwiki.org/showthread.php?p=2908
So each wiki page or whatever...is a thread basically? And it can be locked so nobody can edit it? Like I know Wikipedia can lock its pages so no guests or users can edit it...Quote:
Originally Posted by pegasus
Also, categories are like page tags huh?
Is there a page hierarchy system too? So you can have like categories and subcategories or..?
The page hierarchy system can be based on the forum-subforum-thread hierarchy, or providing you are a Premium licensee / have a separate license for Categories.
Okay, now how do URLs look? Are they search engine friendly? Would I be able to use other vBulletin plugins on top of VaultWiki to optimize pages and user experience?
Also, how do pages look and navigation work? Pages are basically threads right, set to look like a Wiki page?
How does navigation work? Could I set a template up just for the forum index page so visitors will be able to browse through the site/wiki/forum easier? :confused:
Do you have any live demos of sites using your script by any chance? I am really interested in VaultWiki...my purchase is pending/awaiting the answers to my above questions.
If you haven't seen it already, looking around this site's wiki should answer most of your questions: Demo
As for using other vBulletin plugins on top of VaultWiki, we tried to design VaultWiki to avoid as many plugin conflicts as possible. While compatibility is high, it is likely that some vBulletin addons will not work with VaultWiki. That said, the only places I could imagine there being issues is on VaultWiki's own pages. In the end, it really depends on the specific addon.
How can one make the forum/wiki's homepage look like a regular website instead of a forum index page?
You can use Forum Link in the forum manager to set a different page to show on forum index pages.
What? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by pegasus
In the Forum Manager, look for this option:
"Forum Link
(Entering a URL here will cause anyone clicking the forum link to be redirected to that URL)"
But I want the forum's directory to be directed to this page or be a customized page instead of the default forum index/listing page.
But that's exactly what you have, customise your page, then paste the url of it into the option pegasus posted, then clicking on the forum directory link will take you to the custom page.Quote:
Originally Posted by EGS
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Originally Posted by pegasus
Okay, well now I have another question...
How do the URLs of the Wiki look? Is this plugin vBSEO-compatible?
I would rather links not to look like this:
index.php/Category: Blob
But instead more like this:
forum-directory/Content-Title or forum-directory/Content_Title
This is not vbSEO compatible immediately. The mod SEOs its URLs in a similar fashion to MediaWiki.
The URLs can look like either of the following:
http://www.vaultwiki.org/showwiki.ph...Demo:Main+Page
http://www.vaultwiki.org/wiki/Demo:Main+Page
vbSEO doesn't know how to handle this, so an .htaccess patch is required.
I definitely wouldn't want the URLs to contain the "+" sign, but instead possibly the "-" sign, is this possible?
Also, does this plugin automatically create the wiki template file to look just like a wiki, or does the thread and post content templates need to be customized to look like a wiki..?
Bump, please assist?
At the current time it is not possible to define a custom space character for URLs. The title uses the standard PHP function urlencode(), which uses + signs. Using a different character would require a rewrite/wrapper of the functions urlencode() and urldecode(), and that would be too much of a significant change to release any time soon.
But to answer your other question: Yes, VaultWiki comes with a lot of new templates to make your wiki look like a wiki. Little to no customization should be necessary.
Am I missing the templates somewhere? How I do:
- Find them
- use (apply) them
??
I was referring to the tabbed layout of the articles. About 60 templates work together to do this.
Something that really bothers me with this site is the "Now taking you to your page" - the general loading message. This plugin does not add that does it? I hate it.
VaultWiki does not add that. A lot of people hate that on our site but the reason we have it in place is to prevent people from clicking Javascript things before the Javascript has loaded. While it is annoying it stops Javascript errors that are even more annoying.
This will be possible in VaultWiki 3.x. You can see it already in action on our site.Quote:
Originally Posted by EGS
The new URL structure limits articles with "similar" titles, because special characters are translated or removed - so instead of checking the title, creating new articles checks if the URL would be the same as an existing one.
You actually have your choice of URL separators: +, -, _
This is only possible because the cache was also rewritten. It now uses less memory on most pages.
In VaultWiki 2.5.x, you could select URL separators: +, -, _
In VaultWiki 3.0.x, you can specify custom paths. e.g. http://www.vaultwiki.org/demo/Main-Page
Notice how the path is "demo"