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

[dktr adam marshall]

It's a big shame about the wysiwyg editor, we introduced it as an experiment
but had to withdraw it due to lost data. We'd love to fix it but have much
greater priorities  at the moment. Couldn't somebody who understands FCK
editor / wiki tool set up a google summer of code project?

 

Adam 

 

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From: pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
[mailto:pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Jennifer
Sader
Sent: 02 April 2009 01:26
To: Elizabeth Gibson
Cc: pedagogy Learning; Sakai UX
Subject: Re: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Wiki's and Sakai

 

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

 

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 ?

 

Thanks

Liz

 

Elizabeth (Liz) Gibson

Director,  IET - Academic Technology Services

UC Davis

 

 

 

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

 

Hi everyone, 

   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.   

 

Do other institutions receive similar feedback?    Has anyone looked into
integrating Sakai with a different wiki solution?   

 

Thanks,

Megan 

 

 

 

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 

 

Greetings Sakai Community, 

 

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).

 

Summary

*         We have rolled the rwiki code back to the 2.5 version which has
proven stable in many production instances.

*         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).

*         This new hybrid-rwiki has been tested and seems to work as
expected. 

 

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
<mailto:knoop at umich.edu> , Sakai Project Coordinator.

 

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please send them to us by
3/31/2009.

 

Thank you for your time and support,

 

Pete Peterson

QA Director, Sakai Foundation

plpeterson at ucdavis.edu

Phone: +1-530-754-7259

 

 

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