Integration with moodle wiki

[Ludo (Marc Alier)]

Hi there,
I'm one of the developers of the new Moodle wiki module. Moodle is an
open source Learning management system (LMS) designed to focus the
collaboration and participation so to speak. In moodle.org we are more
than 100.000 active users and we grow in numbers each day...
Our developers group (DFWikiteam) are developing some integrations
between our wiki module and tiddlywiki.
Right now we have up and ready a tiddlywiki plugin that pulls wiki
pages from a moodle servers into tiddlers.
We are planning more developments that involve tiddlywiki so I guess
that I'll be around here for a while, so Hi!!!
Ludo out
ps. to give a try to our integration:
http://morfeo.upc.es/crom/course/view.php?id=4

[BradleyMeck]

Interesting! I hope we TW hackers can help you out if you need
anything. Don't be afraid to ask. I've heard about Moodle but never
used it, it sounds like a lot of good it coming from the project.

Cheers,
Bradley

[coolcold]

Very interesting work! I believe this would ease migration between the
two wikis.

I have noticed something funny happening with the dates
<div tiddler="Sargon" modifier="dfwikiteam" modified="0NaNNaNNaNNaNNaN"
created="0NaNNaNNaNNaNNaN" tags="">
Only happens on "Sargon" and "Segunda Wiki1".

Keep up the good work.

CC

[Martin Budden]

Ludo,

this is great. I'm very interested in supporting any use of TiddlyWiki
for pedagogical purposes.

I've had a brief look at your TiddyWiki Integration Server files and
notice that you do a translation between DFWiki and Tiddlywiki format.
There is an alternative: I've written a MediaWiki formatter for
TiddlyWiki that allows TiddlyWiki to render MediaWiki format text
directly. From your documentation I gather that DFWiki format is a
subset of MediaWiki format, so my formatter should work with DFWiki
format text as well.

To use MediaWiki format in a tiddler, you need to install the
MediaWikiFormatterPlugin from

http://martinswiki.com/prereleases.html#MediaWikiFormatterPlugin

and then tag the tiddler with "MediaWikiFormat".

You can see an example of this in action at:

http://www.tiddlypedia.com/solarsystem/

(the tiddlers therein are copied directly from Wikipedia)

I'm one of the TiddlyWiki core developers and, as I say, am very keen
on supporting this usage of TiddlyWiki, so feel free to ask questions
or point out ways that TiddlyWiki could better support integration with
Moodle.

Martin

[Ludo (Marc Alier)]

Hi Martin,
Jeremy told me yesterday about your MediawikiFormater, I was sure that
it should exist but we did'nt search too much ;-) Our server side
tranlator also turns (when is possible) tiddlywiki format into
mediawiki format. Maybe this could be usefull to any of you tiddlywiki
hackers ;-)
In the next release we will give the option of pulling content in
mediawiki format or in the translated form, so users using mediawiki
markup can choose.
I'm glad to be new member of, yet another!, so active FOSS comunity!
Cheers
Ludo

[uri]

Hi there, I'm one of the developers of the plugin. We're glad it's
having such a good response!
Currently, the released you have tested is only a "demo" version. We're
working on the NaN fields and the security issues.

A new functionality has also been implemented: now you can import any
wiki by writing its direct URL on the URL field of the plugin. We'll
soon make another release with this on it.

Thanks for your comments!
uri -dfwikiteam

[Ludo (Marc Alier)]

Hi there,
no we can export from tiddlywiki to moodle's new wiki using the
ExportToDFwikiPlugin.
Now you can find the plugin and all the documentation at
http://moodle.tiddlyspot.com
Ludo out

[Martin Budden]

A couple of minor points:

1) I notice you include the LegacyStrikeThroughPlugin. This is not
required - it was created so that wikis using the old strikethrough
format would not get broken when the new strikethrough format was
introduced in 2.1. Since, presumably, your converter converts to the
new strikethrough format, you do not need the plugin. (Note old format
was ==strike==, new format is --strike-- )

2) I notice you use an MD5 hash. TiddlyWiki has built in support for
SHA-1, so if it is possible for you to use that instead, you can avoid
the necessity of including the MD5 code in your plugins.

I try and further comment when I've had more time to play with the
Moodle/TiddlyWiki combination. It's looking great so far.

Martin

[Ludo (Marc Alier)]

Thanks for the comments Martin,
we will take a look on it.
Cheers
Ludo