Put a forum on a wiki-page

I'd be looking for something similar. Where maybe the admins can add threads. The users could post comments...basically it would be a page of comments and responses and nothing else.

The threaded discussions in Blackboard might be a good model. Is PBWIKI familiar with what I am talking about, or shall I scrounge up an example.

Nick

I would also be interested if this can be added. A discussion thread that is visible in a chronological order, similar to this discussion forum system here.

As a workaround in the meantime, which other might want to use, I'm using a third part BB in an iframe on a page.

This is how they did it in the old forums. It is currently the only way to accomplish this goal. I'm sure PBwiki 2.0 will offer vast and substantial improvements in this area.

Which third party bb would work in an iframe in the meantime?

Any of them I think -- The iframe effectively just loads a webpage within a webpage doesn't it?

I looked at www.freeforums.org, which was easy but puts ads on the page, and www.phpbb3now.com, which was slightly more complicated but ad-free.

A quick Google search turned up loads of possibilties though, I just lookd at those two because they use phpBB which I'm used to and already know how to use.

I also considered trying to find a Google gadget which would do the job, since the wiki already supports those but nothing leaped out at me. There is one called PinDax which worked but was such a non-standard interface I couldn't see my users getting their heads around it very easily.

Can anybody give me a one-sentence pointer on what an iframe is?

Also, what's with the CUPCAKES!?

nICK

Many people consider cupcakes to be delicious and attractive.

This is the Wikipedia article on iframes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFrame
This is how to make one - http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_ifr...
And these are the W3 Standards concerning iframes - http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/...

Is PBWiki going to be rebranded soon as CupcakeWiki?

No, but together, we make a delicious lunch. And if you use PBwiki and Get Satisfaction on your Apple computer, then it's even healthy.

Moving the comments to the bottom of the wiki page (and not having to click on comments to see them) is a good move for 2.0 - but if the comments were THREADED - it would be much more useful and usable. For a good example, see Atlassian's Confluence - the comments at the bottom are threaded so that you can see who replied to whom. In a busy wiki with lots of comments and discussion that gets rolled up into the wiki page document, this is pretty vital.

It's basically just an organization scheme where replies are tabbed over from the original message. I'm not a programmer, but it seems like it couldn't be too tough!

I find the flat file character of PBwiki's Comments a severe problem for my application and will probably move the wikis to WetPaint or Wikispaces. I really need threaded discussions. It's been two months since Paul's notice that threads are not on the product roadmap. Any changes is this timeline? Might the feature be provided in the near future?

This is good to know - threaded discussions are sooo much better - it's one the reasons I love Atlassian's Confluence - but I haven't found another alternative with them. Zoho doesn't have them. Does wikispaces have them now?

Yes, I really think there needs to be a forum. Both wetpaint and wikipages has them. A forum seems like such a fundamental thing for a wiki to have.

A comment system similar to a forum can be added to wiki pages.

Go to http://js-kit.com and paste in the javascript for the comments into one of our HTML plugins.

Example page:
http://freewarewiki.com/JS-Kit_Comments