Martin Dougiamas

I don't think we disagree that the Moodle activity modules all need significant work! Our roadmap looks busy for 2.0, 2.1 and beyond. I have great hopes for Wiki 2.0 in particular, let's hope that works out.

Just to add a point of reference, various people have looked at Mediawiki (because we all prefer it!) with a view to using it as Moodle's internal wiki, but it's just too hard a project. Mediawiki was just not written to be plugged in to another system, so it would require a huge amount of work.

And as another interesting read, here is the first discussion about wikis that led to Erfurt Wiki being chosen in 2003. Wikipedia was not popular then and Mediawiki was not really an obvious option.

Yes, that's what I hear from people too.

Another reason is that it replaces the "Jump to" menu at the top-right of every page which no-one seems to see or use.

"MS have come a long way..."

Well, yes and no. They have had quite a bit of involvement with Moodle in the past - a lot of their education customers use Moodle so they are forced to too, I guess. ;) For them it's obviously all about making MS services more attractive, which is fair enough.

This is unix time (seconds since the epoch at the beginning of 1970) which we use everywhere in Moodle. It is always created using this function:

$time = time();

You can turn it into a human readable date/time for the current user with:

echo userdate($time);

Mark, the AJAX-based drag-and-drop of blocks (and activities as well) was introduced in Moodle 1.7. You'll need to turn on AJAX in the admin menus to see it.