So, Joomla is pretty, functional and useful. I’m still hoping for my dream module, a proper mediawiki interface. For this site there’s so much that revolves around the wiki and not having access to it through Joomla is a problem. I’ve looked at a ton of options and talked to a couple of designers and there’s a couple of ways to possibly make this work without a proper module without looking too hackish.

MamboWiki, I can hear you saying it now. Well, I say its nearly useless.

Its 4 versions out of date and hasn’t been in development for quite some time. That represents a security hole big enough to drive Larry Ellison’s ego through. To make things worse, I’ve got an existing MediaWiki install with quite a bit of data tha isn’t DB compatible with the older version in MamboWiki. Please, someone update that plugin.

So, for the time being I’m going to have to extend my search in other directions, possibly other CMS’s to try and locate a well supported option. I just see so much potential for migrating the site to Joomla. If only MediaWiki would cooperate.

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