Integrating a wiki
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There are several wikis that have already been integrated, or are being integrated, with Dokeos. Currently none of these are available as plugin, but that will only be a matter of time
- Integration of pmwiki - this is a simple text-based wiki that is easy to connect
- Integration of ErfurtWiki - this is a nice database-driven wiki that integrates well and is easy to connect
- Integration of the Mediawiki
- CoolWiki
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Typical issues for integrating a wiki
Database driven wiki
There are as far as we know two ways of connecting a wiki that uses database storage: using a different database / set of tables for every course and possibly for every group; or using one database for all courses and groups.
File-storage wiki
Security
The wiki tool should follow the same guidelines as all other tools: it should only be accessible to the right users, following the permissions set by the platform, course, group admins.
How can you block users? Many wikis -- all of the ones listed above -- make use of one main page (a php script) that loads the requested wikipages. This has as enormous advantage that you only need t make changes to one file in order to get protection. This also means it's eay to upgrade to a new version of the wiki, since there are no dozens of files to modify.
For example at the course level you can make use of the
include("../inc/claro_init_global.inc.php");
api_protect_course_script();
instructions in the wiki main page (index.php).
