[DG: Teaching & Learning] Wiki's and Sakai

[Jennifer Sader]

As soon as I saw the wiki I knew there was no way I could use it with my
classes.

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Elizabeth Gibson <emgibson at ucdavis.edu>wrote:

>  Hi there
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> Yes – we regularly get complaints around the non-user-friendly wiki….  We
> are just stretched so thin already doing other Sakai work that we can’t take
> on another thing…  We sure wish one of the other campuses out there (or a
> collaborative team ?)  would consider taking this on ?
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> Thanks
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> Liz
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> Elizabeth (Liz) Gibson
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> Director,  IET – Academic Technology Services
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> UC Davis
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> *From:* pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *May, Megan Marie
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 01, 2009 2:00 PM
> *To:* pedagogy Learning; Sakai UX
> *Subject:* [DG: Teaching & Learning] Wiki's and Sakai
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> Hi everyone,
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>    Here at IU we’re disappointed that the WYSIWYG editing capabilities
> aren’t going to make the 2.6.0 release (see message below for the
> announcement/rationale).     We’ve found that faculty try the wiki in Sakai
> but end up switching to free and inexpensive hosted solutions because they
> are so much easier to use.   Obviously, the wysiwyg would greatly improve
> the user experience but it wouldn’t resolve the ‘ease of use’ issues we’re
> hearing about.  This has made us wonder if it might be wise to explore other
> options, like integration with existing wiki applications.
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> Do other institutions receive similar feedback?    Has anyone looked into
> integrating Sakai with a different wiki solution?
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> Thanks,
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> Megan
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> *From:* Pete Peterson [mailto:plpeterson at ucdavis.edu]
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 26, 2009 4:45 PM
> *To:* 'Sakai Developers'; 'Sakai QA'; production at collab.sakaiproject.org
> *Cc:* Michael Korcuska; Knoop, Peter; Anthony Whyte; Pete Peterson; May,
> Megan Marie; Stephen Swinsburg; David Horwitz
> *Subject:* Important information about Sakai 2.6.0 and the rWiki tool
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> Greetings Sakai Community,
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> We have been unable to resolve a number of issues with the 2.6 rwiki code,
> centered around the WYSIWYG editing capabilities and data loss under certain
> conditions.  At this point in the release cycle we are opting to replace it
> with the 2.5.x version of rwiki, making the necessary changes to make it
> compatible with the 2.6 codebase.  We are also re-applying some of the minor
> fixes and improvements intended for the 2.6 version of rwiki to the
> 2.5.x-based version (see SAK-15866<http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-15866>for more details).
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> *Summary*
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> ·         We have rolled the rwiki code back to the 2.5 version which has
> proven stable in many production instances.
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> ·         Many of the updated rwiki features that are present in trunk/
> the original 2.6 version, have been merged back into this version. Details
> of this effort can be viewed at SAK-15866<http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-15866> (many
> thanks to Steve Swinsburg for his work on this issue).
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> ·         This new hybrid-rwiki has been tested and seems to work as
> expected.
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> With regards to the WYSIWYG editing capabilities for rwiki scheduled for
> inclusion in  Sakai 2.6 (SAK-8535<http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-8535>),
> we will continue explore options for implementing such functionality at a
> later time.  This is an oft requested features, so if you are interested in
> helping us explore and implement possible solutions, please contact Peter
> Knoop <knoop at umich.edu>, Sakai Project Coordinator.
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> If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please send them to us
> by 3/31/2009.
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> Thank you for your time and support,
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> Pete Peterson
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> QA Director, Sakai Foundation
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> plpeterson at ucdavis.edu
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> Phone: +1-530-754-7259
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