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[Aaron Wells <1351055@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Son,

Thanks for submitting the 3562 patch. However, I've abandoned it because
I think it's not the best way that Mahara should pursue this feature.
The patch that you submitted, creates one site-wide Mediawiki site
inside Mahara, which is only editable by Mahara admins & staff. However,
the main use case for a wiki in Mahara is to allow multiple (student)
users to collaborate together. And, putting MediaWiki inside of Mahara
has the downside that we would have to keep our MediaWiki library
instance up to date, which could be burdensome.

So instead of this implementation, we should pursue one of these two
options:

Option 1: Write a plugin for the MediaWiki software, which allows Mahara
to be integrated into it as an authentication source. (We actually
already have this for mahara.org, but it could use some work.) This
achieves the same functionality of having one site-wide MediaWiki site,
but it moves the MediaWiki support burden outside of Mahara.

Option 2: Take a lighter-weight wiki library, and set it up as an
interaction plugin, so that individual groups can have wikis. (Or it may
make more sense as an artefact plugin? Would individual users want
groups?)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1351055

Title:
  Wiki feature for mahara

Status in Mahara ePortfolio:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Version: master

  This is a new feature for Mahara. It provides the wiki feature for
  mahara users.

  There will be 3 groups of users

  1. Institution and site admins who have all permissions of editing, managing and administrating wiki pages and users.
  2. Institution staff who can edit and manage wiki pages
  3. Normal users who can only read wiki pages

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