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OU wiki
Activities ::: mod_ouwiki
Maintained by sam marshall, Jason Platts, Alan Thompson, Alan Carter
Part of set Open University.
Alternative wiki. Simple wiki designed for teaching and learning.
Latest release:
470 sites
61 downloads
15 fans
Current versions available: 14
This is an alternative wiki that you can install into standard Moodle.
It does not replace the standard wiki, and operates alongside it. The key
intention of this wiki is to provide a simple teaching tool suitable for
student use with minimal required training. It is in no way intended to be a full-fledged wiki like MediaWiki. For example, there is no wiki syntax except for links with two square brackets.
Please note: This plugin is no longer supported in Moodle Tracker. All support requests should be via the GitHub repository issue tracker (https://github.com/moodleou/moodle-mod_ouwiki).
Useful links
Contributors
sam marshall (Lead maintainer)
Jason Platts: Current lead developer
Alan Thompson: Technical developer
Alan Carter: Technical developer
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(Using the new system, users can of course still add in-place comments by editing the page to write it in there.)
Really though it doesn't much matter why we made the decision - this is ancient history for us, it was made about eighteen months ago. So, I mean, you can obviously disagree, but that's the way it is now - sorry.
As Sam Marshall wrote 22 May 2013: "The tested version will be available in the MOODLE_24_STABLE branch of each [OU] plugin in GitHub at some point early in June 2013. (You can pester me online if I have forgotten to update it!)"
http://learn.open.ac.uk/mod/oublog/viewpost.php?post=144632
This bug will cause issues for users that currently use xml wiki templates on any activities, it won't do so when using the new zip template format.
The OU release schedule is currently that we release our live versions in June or December, slightly more than six months after the Moodle release. For example, we will be releasing our Moodle 2.6 version in June 2014.
If you want a live, fully tested version of our plugins that should be suitable for use in 'real' systems, you will need to match this release schedule - i.e. do not update to Moodle 2.6 until after June 2014, and Moodle 2.7 until December 2014, etc. This has the added advantage that you will be using a more reliable Moodle version rather than a bleeding-edge .0 version.
If you are willing to use an untested developer version of our plugins, these normally start working on the 'master' branch of our GitHub repository about three or four months before a release. For example, the Moodle 2.6 versions are gradually becoming available on the master branch in February 2014. There is no announcement or branch or anything for this - we just fix issues in 2.6 as spotted. Community members can help by reporting/submitting fixes for any bugs caused by the upgrade at this point.
In addition to this, depending on what changed in the Moodle version, sometimes (for instance) the 2.5 version might basically work in 2.6, so if you feel like living dangerously you could give it a try.
"error/Sub-wikis is set to 'One wiki per group'. Please change Group mode to 'Separate groups' or 'Visible groups'."
Here's how I ended up fixing it:
1) Turn off the FORCED group mode in the course settings.
2) Add the "separate groups" option in the Wiki and save the change (this was previously unchangeable because group mode was being forced).
3) Turn back ON the FORCED group mode in the course settings.
Ger Tielemans
Tue, 30 Sep 2014, 11:02 AM
version number in latest 2.6 release is $module->version = 2014042800;
but update mechanism shouts that it is 2014042801