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

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

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.

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

It does not show up in Moodle.

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()

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.

During restore of a course backup I got:

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

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

Kind regards,
Jonas

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:

(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 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.

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.

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)"

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

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.

I have new lang file to correct report_inactive.

If anyone needs it just email me.

Jeff

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).

• 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.
  

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...

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.

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.

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

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

BW

Eckart

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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

Hebrew translation:
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/CONTRIB-1807

Enjoy

I followed your instructions for creating and using a template, but all I get is a blank screen when I first access the wiki. refreshing the screen or trying to access again reverts to an empty wiki and the module never seems to try to install the template again. Has anyone had success with templates or have suggestions for solving this error?

Database problem: Duplicate entry 'e' for key 'mdl_blocouseword_wor_uix' (code OUWIKI-ouwiki.php/1788)


moodle 1.9.7
ouwiki gen2010

Hi Sam,

I've sent you a massage about the "cut text" problem in Ouwiki:

"We'are usind the OUwiki module, and we are triyng to fix a singular problem. When we copy and paste a content from wikipedia, for exemple, depending how big it is the content will not be completly saved, So we lost a lot of content when we try to save the big page. But... if we click first in "Preview" and than we click on "Save" the content will not be lost.
have you seen something like this? There is a way to fix it without update the moodle?"

Note: We discovered something, this problem occours when we use moodle 1.9.5, and when we test the same thing on moodle 1.9.7 it doesn't occours. But it keep being a problem for us, becouse we cant update our moodle 1.9.5 for now only some archives.

I looked for the fixed item in community, that resolved this problem in update, but i guess nobody never asked about this before, and its not like a commom problem.

You sent me the steps to reproduce the problem and that is what we do to lost text when we copy and paste. Is missing just one detail, It occours in moodle 1.9.5:


1) go to http://whatever/ (eg a wikipedia page)
2) with the mouse, select from the start of the word 'whatever' (describe where this is) to the end of word 'whatever' (describe where that is)
3) press ctrl-c to copy
4) go to ouwiki and create a new page
5) click into the editor and press ctrl-v to paste
6) click save
--> error occurs



Thanks a lot for your attention. You know it's very important for community.
Thank you.

Thank you for this Wiki, which is an improvement over the default Moodle wiki.

How is the delete a page option coming? The lack of a delete page option is problematic in that those getting comfortable with this wiki feel as if their missteps live on forever, mockingly.

In February, I posted about troubles with templates in OU wiki. Now that the school year is out, I had time to track the problem to the DOMDocument::load function, which is apparently not provided by PHP5.1.6. Our administrator has no plans to upgrade the server from fedora core 6 or to upgrade PHP for another year yet.

Does anyone know if there was a PHP 5.4 (or early 5.5) function that did a similar job to DOMDocument::load, or have any other advice for duplicating this function?

In the meantime, I'll be looking into this myself and will probably eventually solve it. Would be nice to save some time, though, if anyone has more PHP knowledge. My situation may be pretty unique, so not sure if anyone else will have the problem.

Thanks,

Matt

We are also having difficulty with templates. Creating a new OU wiki from a template used to work fine, but no longer does. The new wiki does not contain the imported template. In addition, when you first click on the new wiki after attempting to apply a template, a blank screen is displayed. The empty wiki appears, after you refresh the browser display.

We're running Moodle 1.9.7 with PHP 5.1.6. I'm not exactly certain when the problem began, but it was within the last couple of months.

Any assistance or tips would be appreciated.

Thanks,

jane

I just installed OU Wiki and are having the same issue as Lorena.  When we paste text that has been copied from another source (and is a large amount of data), the save function fails and we get a page not found error.

Any troubleshooting would be welcomed as I like this wiki much better than the basic install but most of our users will be copying and pasting info from other documetation. So this needs to work.

Many thanks in advance,

Leslie

Forgot to add-

moodle  version 1.9.5

database mysql 5.1.46 OK

php  version 5.2.13

OU wiki for 1.9