Hi @agatzebluz,
Greetings and thanks for posting here! 🙂
I believe what you’re asking about is Markdown, which is commonly used within wiki software. This Wiki plugin doesn’t support that directly.
However, the following 2 forum posts provide some helpful code you can use to get that working with the help of some other plugins that provide Markdown features:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/markdown-support-1
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/jetpack-markdown-support
As for the potential links you mentioned, the plugin doesn’t have any built-in feature for that but you could always link to the “Create New..” link for a parent wiki, maybe like so:
yoursite.com/wiki/histories/?action=edit&eaction=create
I hope that’ll work for you, please feel free to ask if you have any questions. We’re happy to help! 🙂
Cheers,
David
Hi @david!
Thank you so much for your very detailed response and for the care you manifest. Very much appreciated!
I could follow the track you propose, however it always lead to high maintenance each time we get a new version, either on wp side or plugin side. I rather want to focus on the content and expect easier solutions (coming from a geeky side, I have learned about the hard choice between structure and content) :).
I really do love the wiki plugin that you do, and I think many people and organizations need it. However, the easiness to build links and potential links comes as the practical power of wikis. You don’t have to worry whether a page already exist when you create a link, it doesn’t lead to a 404. And you don’t have to worry about a page url that already exist, just name its name in whatever wiki syntax you have. If you had this in your plugin, I would jump on it, I mean the paying version.
So far I have a whole knowledge base that I want to build on collective intelligence. Conventional wikis offer poor CMS, poor editing and poor themes. No possibility to make fancy, nice articles. WP doesn’t offer the full power of wikis which I think relies in the easiness to build hyperlinked content on the fly.
Would you consider this direction in the dev? I don’t think it would take a lot of time and resources to implement that.
Thanks again David.
Jean-François
Hi Jean-François,
Thanks for your very valuable feedback here, we totally appreciate that. I wonder if this might something that could be implemented with a simple shortcode.
Do you have a reference for this specifically, maybe from wikipedia?
I’ll be happy to look into it and see if something might be possible with a shortcode.
Cheers,
David
Thank you for your openness and listening David.
Well, you may want to refer to the wiki syntax as defined by MediaWiki: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting
Here we come with a whole syntax, not just the links. I bring it here because:
1. it might help you gain more users used to this core standard, and who want to add wp power on top of it
2. these users may just have to cut/paste wiki syntax from other wikis into wp, so they can work with existing material.
I have seen such plugins that allow both html and wiki syntax work in wp.
Enough for the general picture.
Even if you don’t want or feel the need to integrate a full wiki syntax in your plugin, the most powerful aspect of links in writing wikis remains. That, for itself, makes it a killer I think 🙂
See a good description of it, still in Wikimedia syntax, here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples#Links
I insiste again on the fact that the wiki link feature comes as the CORE way to build knowledge bases and wikis, as you don’t have to worry about links and existing pages.
How does it look like?
Thank you again!
Jean-François
Hi Jean-François,
Thank you for your detailed reply.
We have already a feature request created for this feature and this feature may be added in future version of plugin but We don’t publish ETAs to prevent disappointment if a deadline is missed(which in plugin development quite a frequent occurrence!).
In the meanwhile you can try using the following plugins.
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-markitup/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/urakanji-wiki-converter/
Please note the above plugins are not updated from long time and may not work properly so fully test it on your development site before using it on the live site.
Have a fantastic day!
Cheers,
WPMU DEV
Thanks you very much for your detailed reply and for the links.
I have checked these plugins before as well as others. Some of them don’t work anymore, other’s still work but because of their lack of maintenance I don’t want to put my work on jeopardy on them. So I would prefer nothing rather than a bad or weak tool.
I hope you will implement the wiki link feature soon, and I will become your best client and advocate 🙂
Please keep me in the loop when it happens.
Thanks again!
Jean-François
Hi Jean-François,
I hope the feature will be developed soon 🙂
Cheers,
WPMU DEV
ANY progress??
I agree, the essence of Wiki collaboration is easyness and no heavy editing interface, no unnecessary clicks which you can only expect for normal contributors to understand and use.
Without the link-markdown (as a minimum) and the category-markdown as a 2nd minimum, the Wiki plugin is just a different interface and has the front-end editor as the biggest feature for “wiki-like”.
This would not be accepted easily by our customer.
Creations of Wiki pages should be “invited” by preparing/equippping the text already with future links so the users who know something can directly start without knowing and getting to learn the “how-to” of Workspress (we would consider removing the contribution bar on top of WordPress and then how do users create a new wiki intuitively?)
I also fail to see how users can
– avoid backend editor on creation
– categorise a wiki (after creation)
– subscribe without going to edit button (though not wiki standard, I think)
