Module Info : Wikis in Drupal 6 - Module Review

Doing a good wiki in Drupal 6 is surprisingly hard. My project to create a site with MediaWiki-like functionality for climate research at UC Berkeley took much longer than I thought it would, and the result was mediocre. Here are my notes evaluating different modules:

Modules I ended up using

• Talk (6.x-1.5)
  • Function: Move the comments into separate tab.
  • Configure: Enable in Content Type -> edit -> Workflow settings (which is odd, should be Comment settings).
• Diff (6.x-2.0)
  • Function: Show what changed between one revisions.
  • Configure: Remember to turn on default revision tracking.
  • Limitations: Kind of confusing. Where you go after you are done viewing the diff?
• Pear Wiki Filter (6.x-1.0-beta1)
  • Function: Add
  • Configure
    • Need to pull Text_Wiki package down from cvs.
    • Need to set path of installed PEAR packages.
    • All configuring is hidden on the Input Format configure/configure page. Can be per format.
  • Limitations
    • No longer supported. Marked as obsoleted in favor of Flexifilter – but flexifilter doesn’t work.
    • Does not support —- (hr) or —~~~ (signature).
    • Can’t configure it not to not filtering html. I ended up hacking this out of the code.
    • Regular expression exceptions don’t seem to work.
    • I wasn’t happy with adding new wikilinks and images. I did extensive hacking. [...]

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