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Activity Module: OU wiki

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Type: Activity Module
Requires: Moodle 1.9 or later
Status: Contributed
Maintainer(s): The Open University

Last updated: ~16 January 2009 (fixed some hardcoded strings, added French translation, version.php unchanged at 2008100600).

Simple, easy to use, but reasonably full-featured alternative to standard Moodle wiki.

Points and issues

  • Relies on HTML editor; does not use wiki markup except for links.
  • Can live alongside the existing wiki - does not make any attempt to convert content.
  • Includes integrated comments on pages or headings.
  • Supports most features of the old wiki except for wiki markup (as above) and attachments.
If you want a search facility for the wiki, you must also install the ousearch block.

Requirements

  • PHP 5
  • Moodle 1.9

Tested databases

  • Postgres 8
  • MySQL 5

Languages

  • English (en)
  • German (de, de_du) - thanks to Eckart Stoermer for translation
  • French (fr) - thanks to Nicolas Dunand for translation
Note: If reporting any bugs with ouwiki, please use the Moodle bug tracker (selected contributed modules, then OU wiki under 'component'). Alternatively you can contact me directly to me by email or Moodle private message. Posting comments here isn't a good idea if you want a response, because I don't get automatic notification of comments on this page.


Record added by sam marshall - martes, 23 de octubre de 2007, 22:54
Last modified - viernes, 16 de enero de 2009, 00:17
Imagen de Ger Tielemans
por Ger Tielemans - lunes, 5 de noviembre de 2007, 16:26
 

Nice little Wiki. By the way, the rss.gif is not living in /pix/ but in /pix/i/

Imagen de Jonas Lagneryd
por Jonas Lagneryd - miércoles, 7 de noviembre de 2007, 17:19
 

Great interface and functionality! I wonder though if there is a delete function somewhere? It would be neat when administering to be able to delete pages and history versions.
Kind regards,
Jonas

Imagen de sam marshall
por sam marshall - miércoles, 9 de enero de 2008, 22:16
 

I updated the wiki to our latest release version today, which means the updated version should be available for download from tomorrow (10 January 2008). No major changes - and sorry, but still no delete function - just bugfixes and a minor pseudo-security tweak to the feed URLs.

Snowboarding in Park City, UT
por Perry M - sábado, 9 de febrero de 2008, 02:33
 

Downloaded the latest ouWiki and Moodle 1.9 and moved owWiki into the Blocks directory.

It does not show up in Moodle.

Imagen de Howard Miller
por Howard Miller - lunes, 11 de febrero de 2008, 19:00
 

Straight away...

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'AND p.title IS NULL LIMIT 1' at line 8

SELECT p.id AS pageid,p.subwikiid,p.title,p.currentversionid, v.id AS versionid,v.xhtml,v.timecreated,v.userid FROM mdl_ouwiki_pages p INNER JOIN mdl_ouwiki_versions v ON p.currentversionid=v.id WHERE p.subwikiid= AND p.title IS NULL
line 686 of lib/dmllib.php: call to debugging()
line 481 of lib/dmllib.php: call to get_recordset_sql()
line 502 of mod/ouwiki/ouwiki.php: call to get_record_sql()
line 24 of mod/ouwiki/view.php: call to ouwiki_get_current_page()

Imagen de sam marshall
por sam marshall - lunes, 25 de febrero de 2008, 22:12
 

Following community testing (thanks!) I have fixed the problems that affected ouwiki in MySQL. The current version now works in MySQL. I have updated the description (and ousearch description) to clearly indicate database support, php version requirement, etc.

Imagen de Ger Tielemans
por Ger Tielemans - jueves, 1 de mayo de 2008, 17:40
 

During restore of a course backup I got:

  • OU wiki "OU wiki"
    Error: Error creating subwiki object (0)
    This restore has failed (even though it may say otherwise later). Resolve this problem before continuing.
  • Could not restore modules!

    Imagen de Jeff Wood
    por Jeff Wood - jueves, 15 de mayo de 2008, 21:50
     

    When I try to generate a Participation report for a ouwiki module I get

    "Module ouwiki is missing the code needed to perform this function"

    Any ideas?

    Jeff

    Imagen de Jonas Lagneryd
    por Jonas Lagneryd - jueves, 22 de mayo de 2008, 14:33
     

    Hi,
    Any plans for a delete function for pages and history versions?

    Kind regards,
    Jonas

    Imagen de sam marshall
    por sam marshall - martes, 27 de mayo de 2008, 23:05
     

    I have updated to a new version today (the new version will become available from tomorrow because of the way the packaging mechanism works).

    If you want to check, the new version has version.php as follows:

    $module->version = 2007102900;
    $module->requires = 2007101509;

    (The version hasn't changed from last time because we didn't alter the database tables, but I updated the requires version to the standard 1.9 one.)

    There were still some minor MySQL bugs which are fixed in the new version - I think these include the restore one that was mentioned. Some other bugs were fixed.

    A new reports system was added which shows (by role) who has been contributing to the wiki, including a timeline of edits per day.

    Unfortunately this version still does not have admin features to delete/hide pages or versions. We do plan to add this but nobody has scheduled any time for it. However I unilaterally decided that one of the developers in my team is going to do it even if it's not scheduled sonrisa Well unless something else overruns. So there will be basic feature to (a) rollback to a previous version, and (b) hide a version entirely except from admins. [This latter one would be used e.g. if somebody posts something offensive on the wiki, so we want to get rid of it even in history view.] But this probably won't happen until September or so.

    Imagen de Liz Cross
    por Liz Cross - jueves, 12 de junio de 2008, 23:43
     

    I have downloaded a wiki template file - how do I use it? 

    What I want to do is set up a wiki with a "separate wiki for each user" with standard pages (template pages) preset so students can individually edit them.

    Imagen de Josep M. Fontana
    por Josep M. Fontana - sábado, 14 de junio de 2008, 22:10
     

    We are experiencing a strange problem. When someone tries to edit an OU wiki entry, s/he gets a message window that says "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger or let the script continue.

    If you click on the 'debug script' button, you get a message that says "Database problem: Duplicate entry 'garcia' for key 2 (code OUWIKI-ouwiki.php/1613)"

    Imagen de Jeff Wood
    por Jeff Wood - jueves, 3 de julio de 2008, 21:56
     

    Just updated to newest version. Thanks for the reporting function - great way to see what is happening.

    Only thing is now all text is . E.g. report_inactive any ideas?

    I have placed the lang files into lang dir.

    Jeff

    Imagen de Glenys Hanson
    por Glenys Hanson - viernes, 11 de julio de 2008, 20:52
     

    Hello,

    I see Ger Tielemans - Thursday, 1 May 2008 had similar problems restoring a course containing OUwiki.

    During the restoration process I see this error:

      • OU wiki "Cinderella wiki"
      • Error: Error creating subwiki object (0)
        This restore has failed (even though it may say otherwise later). Resolve this problem before continuing.
      Could not restore modules!
    • Creating roles definitions
    • Creating course level role assignments and overrides
    • Creating module level role assignments and overrides
    • Creating block level role assignments and overrides
    • Creating user level role assignments and overrides
    • . .
    • Closing the Restorelog.html file.

    An error has occurred and the restore could not be completed!

    If I delete the OUwiki the course backs up and restores no problem.

    We're on Moodle 1.9.1

    Can you help, Sam?

    Cheers,
    Glenys

    By the way, I chose OUwiki because it seems easier for students to use.

    Imagen de Jeff Wood
    por Jeff Wood - martes, 22 de julio de 2008, 20:58
     

    I have new lang file to correct report_inactive.

    If anyone needs it just email me.

    Jeff

    Imagen de sam marshall
    por sam marshall - miércoles, 23 de julio de 2008, 18:36
     

    I have updated ouwiki to a new version, available for download from 24 July. This is mainly a bugfix update.

    It fixes:

    • The restore bug Glenys reported.
    • The language file problems Jeff reported.
    • Several other bugs with backup and restore (problems with the 'links' table that maintains the 'this page is linked from' information; also weird things like if you make a page with a space at the end of the name).
    • Several bugs with reports (data was being calculated incorrectly).
    It adds:
    • An admin setting where you can choose which roles show up on reports - useful if your reports screen gets cluttered by roles other than teacher and students. (The interface for this is very poor - you have to type in role IDs. There's a reason for that, basically it is going to use a Moodle 2 feature that isn't there yet. Anyway if you don't care about it you can leave it blank, I think then it just shows students.)
    • Graphs on the reports screen.
    Somebody posted a question about how to use templates. In the fairly unlikely event that they ever see this sonrisa the answer is that once you have made a template (by setting up a wiki how you want, & downloading template from index page) you then need to create a new wiki and you should be able to choose the template on the create form. You can delete or hide the original wiki (that you used for creating the template). It isn't possible to change template once a wiki has been created.

    Imagen de Steve Wright
    por Steve Wright - jueves, 7 de agosto de 2008, 18:19
     

    Any chance of having the search function extended to be able to search the comments as well as page content? WOuld be really useful where the discussion in comments has become complex but is unsearchable...

    Imagen de sam marshall
    por sam marshall - sábado, 6 de septiembre de 2008, 01:22
     

    Eckart Stoermer kindly contributed a German translation, which I have added to the cvs version. I don't know much German, so don't blame me if it mainly consists of swear words. sonrisa

    This should be available in the download from 7 September. If it is in the wrong place and doesn't work properly, please let me know.

    Eckart Stoermer
    por Eckart Stoermer - miércoles, 17 de septiembre de 2008, 00:09
     

    Hi Sam
    Next time I will include some jokes on you. guiño

    Joking apart: Can I really run the wiki only under 1.9??

    BW

    Eckart

    Imagen de Alexander Kou
    por Alexander Kou - jueves, 18 de septiembre de 2008, 15:57
     

    Hi,
        It seems to work fine in my Moodle site (1.9.2+). Actually, there is still something odd happening. When I have some Chinese characters such as '六' which refers to 'six' in English in my content of Wiki activity, all the characters following '六' will be deleted. That is, if I type the following characters:
    group one group two group three group six六 

    I will get the result:

    group one group two group three [[group six

    Could anyone give me a hand?

    Alexander, Kuo.

    Imagen de sam marshall
    por sam marshall - martes, 30 de septiembre de 2008, 21:45
     

    Eckart: The current wiki version works on 1.9.x. An older version used to run on 1.8.x, but that isn't maintained any more (also it had more bugs, didn't work on mysql, etc).

    Alexander: I was able to create a page containing the text:
    one two three four five 六 seven eight
    without any problems.

    I have contacted Alexander to see if he can give more specific information to reproduce the bug.

    Imagen de Jiří Dlouhý
    por Jiří Dlouhý - miércoles, 29 de octubre de 2008, 22:15
     

    Hi,

    OU wiki looks very interesting for us, because it works much better than original wiki (which does not work properly with Czech characters), and still we have problems with dfwiki, where we find alway bugs.

    But I had mentioned quite serious problem - if I make changes in the middle of the the text and I save it directly sometimes some part of the text disappears and I have to restore it from oldere version of the text.  If I make preview and than save everything is OK.

    OU wiki is in "visible groups" mode, we have moodle 1.9.2. If I make preview and than save

    Any idea what is wrong?

    Jiri

    Imagen de sam marshall
    por sam marshall - martes, 4 de noviembre de 2008, 00:12
     

    Jiří - Could you try updating to the latest version of the wiki? If that doesn't fix your problem, please file a bug in the Moodle Tracker (under contributed items, module: OU wiki) and give the exact steps to make your problem happen starting from a newly-created wiki activity.

    In general please don't use comments here to report bugs - use the bug tracker or contact me by email/private message. I might not check this page for several months at a time...

    Imagen de Nicolas Dunand
    por Nicolas Dunand - martes, 17 de febrero de 2009, 18:43
     

    Hello Sam,

    Thanks again for this great tool. I have a question however, on how you are using this wiki at the OU : for students being able to use images in the wiki, they have to upload these into the course files, right ? as students usually don't have this capability, how do you circumvent this ?

    I figured out that :

    • we may use some kind of alternate image hosting (e.g. Flickr), but it looks too complicated for the average user;
    • we may give students the "moodle/course:managefiles" capability, but then they have access to every course file (not only those they create);
    • we can simply disallow images in wiki edits, but that's not an option for us.
    So we finally created special courses with only one activity (the OU wiki), and students having the capability to use (upload, etc.) the course files in this course. But to my great despair users feel this is an uncormfortable solution.

    So, before hacking the code around and trying to make the OUwiki use a special "OUwiki" subfolder in the course files (with students having r/w access on it, which I would guess would mean hacking not only the OUwiki module files), I wanted to know how your students are using this tool.

    Best regards,

    ND

    Imagen de lauren shawl
    por lauren shawl - jueves, 9 de julio de 2009, 04:56
     

    I really like OU Wiki. Any chance it will be integrated with the Gradebook in the future?

    Imagen de David Price
    por David Price - lunes, 12 de octubre de 2009, 14:03
     

    Love this Wiki but is there anyway I can disable the revert function for different users roles, we dont really want learners to beable to do that.

    Thanks


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