SeaDooSportBoats.com: SeaDooSportBoats.com Wiki - SeaDooSportBoats.com

Based on feeback from one of our members, Jesse Campbell, we have decided to implement a Wiki. We are using a Wiki that merges the features of IP.Board (our forum software) and MediaWiki (same Wiki software used by WikiPedia) called IpbWiki. The new Wiki is located here, http://seadoosportboats.com/wiki.

Some of the features of the Wiki include:

• Seamless integration of the login system of MediaWiki and Invision Power Board. Your website visitors get the convenience of a single sign-on into the forum and the wiki, leading to an increased community participation. IpbWiki provides 2 authentication methods:
  
  • Transparent User Authentication: if the user visited the forum and there exists a forum session, then user is automatically logged in into the wiki.
    
  • Non-transparent User Authentication: Clicking the Login button in the wiki authenticates against the forum database and logs the user in both the wiki and (optionally) the forum.
  
  
• Integrated Skins: Out of the box skin integration.
  
• Configure Wiki-Rights: grant wiki-rights (read, edit, minoredit, createpage, createtalk, move, delete, undelete, protect, block, createaccount, upload, reupload, reupload-shared, rollback, patrol, editinterface, siteadmin, bot, asksql, checkuser) based on the member's Forum User Group and member's number of posts.
  
• Supports BBCode & Emotions: IpbWiki Parses BBCode so your forum members continue to use the familiar forum BBCode, leading to an increased community participation. Emoticons are also supported.
  
• Automatically link keywords in your forum post to wiki-topics by using the Automatic wikification extension, or link to topics manually by using the wiki bbcode.
  
• Discussion Threads: possibility to configure IpbWiki to redirect the wiki discussion tabpage to a forum discussion thread, again leading to an increased community participation.
  
• Rating System: Allows your visitors to provide feedback how much they like your articles.
  
• Limited CMS capabilities: Add topiclists and forum posts inside your wiki pages.
  
• Online Users Integration: Show in 1 list who's active on your forum and wiki.
  
• Poweful & Convenient Control Panel: All options can be simply selected turned on/off in your Admin CP Panel.
  
• Link multiple wikis to 1 forum.
  
• Since IpbWiki is based on MediaWiki you can automatically enjoy all features of MediaWiki when you use IpbWiki.

Need more information? Click here, http://www.ipbwiki.c...pbWiki_Features, for Wiki features in detail.

Please take advantage of the new Wiki and contribute so we can compile a hand full of useful information and resources. This can be a great place to organize how-tos and other related items so it is easy to locate. Go here, http://www.mediawiki...ting_a_new_page, for instructions on starting a new page in the Wiki.

Please provide any feedback or bugs for the new Wiki here, http://seadoosportbo...back-t1857.html.

Kind regards,
Kevin Leclair
Owner/Manager
SeaDooSportBoats.com
http://seadoosportboats.com