Tag Archives: mediawiki

New digs for UMW Blogs, or the anatomy of a redesign

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Reverend

UMW Blogs has got a brand new bag, with no small assistance from Andy “EDU” Rush nation who turned me on to the beautiful theme PrimePress (Andy’s the go to theme guy without question), along with Serena Epstein an Jerry … Continue reading →

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MistyLook Theme for MediaWiki Toolbar Fix

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Reverend

This can be filed under obscure hacks. For those of you out there who are using the MistyLook theme for MediaWiki and haven’t been able to get the editing toolbar to show up in the later versions of MediaWiki, then … Continue reading →

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The Era of a One-Click WordPress

Posted on November 1, 2007 by Reverend

We have been talking for a while about how easy the installation of WordPress (and many other apps) is made by the one-click magic of script installers like Fantastico. However, this didn’t solve the problem of uploading themes and plugins … Continue reading →

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Pimp that bliki!

Posted on August 1, 2007 by Reverend

I responded to a comment by Sue Mayberry -who was asking for more details about creating a bliki (a WordPress MediaWiki mashup)- offering a kind of quick overview of some of the steps with links to the specific posts and … Continue reading →

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Get your bliki on!

Posted on July 30, 2007 by Reverend

That’s right, the WordPress MediaWiki mashup is gaining some momentum. Just check out the Blogfolio del Dr. Mario Nunez, a self-proclaimed “Blogfesor” at the Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez in beautiful Puerto Rico. I love it!!! The other thing I love … Continue reading →

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It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a visual text editor for MediaWiki!

Posted on July 18, 2007 by Reverend

Update: Not exactly a full-featured visual text editor 🙂 Just found this little hack for MediaWiki that adds a more comprehensive visual text editor to the coolest wiki application going. How long have we been waiting for this? What’s more … Continue reading →

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A cry for help! Can we build a bliki plugin to integrate WordPress and MediaWiki?

Posted on June 8, 2007 by Reverend

Over a month ago we started playing with the idea of bringing MediaWiki pages into WordPress post. The logic being you can combine the presentation possibilities and RSS feed generation of WordPress with the ease of formatting, editing and collaborative … Continue reading →

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MediaWiki/WordPress User Integration: One step closer to a bling bling bliki!

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Reverend

Update: I tested this extension with WPMU to no avail. Looks like it works only with single WP installs 2.1 or higher with MediaWiki installs that are PHP 4 based (I got it to work with version 1.6.8). Alan Levine … Continue reading →

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Tales from the Teaching Crypt: Discipline and Punish

Posted on May 24, 2007 by Reverend

OK, so last night’s class was so inspiring (a.k.a. sick) that I thought I would blog about it right quick. I have been leaving traces of some of the resources I have been finding on YouTube, and alluding to some … Continue reading →

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Open, Connected, and Social

Posted on April 21, 2007 by Reverend

D’Arcy Norman has already announced the (MAC) Learning Environments presentation that will take place this Wednesday, April 25, 1:00pm EST (10:00am Pacific, 11:00am Mountain, etc…). D’Arcy, Brian Lamb, and Alan Levine will be re-visiting some of the generative ideas from … Continue reading →

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