Support other product modules?

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Have you considered supporting modules from other products?

Support other product modules?

pieterh 1163486512|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Looking at Drupal, I see it has a large number of modules and I had this idea that perhaps Wikidot could use Drupal modules. If this is eventually possible, you get a huge benefit, of course. Perhaps this is an insane idea.

Re: Support other product modules?

ucsdgrads 1163827319|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I was going to suggest some things from Bravenet but I just check out Drupal. It's AMAZING. I was suggesting Bravenet because it has a tell-a-friend feature and a mailing list generator and a few other things. But nothing near the capabilities of Drupal!!! I know it maybe a far off and complicated thing but I would definitely like to second supporting Drupal.

Re: Support other product modules?

ucsdgrads 1163827897|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Okay…I looked through Drupal some more. I think that maybe Bravenet might not be a bad quick solution for promotion and increasing email generation. Bravenet generates and html code that you embed into page, just like Pixie and Google Gadgets. I really think Drupal has some great stuff but for a quick, user friendly solution maybe something like what Bravenet offers is the way to go. They have 26 other applications that I didn't mention above.

Re: Support other product modules?

michal frackowiak 1164039536|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Hi there!

Indeed Drupal has a lot of extensions. I have been looking at them (Wordpress, Joomla too) some time ago and currently I am planning to make an extension architecture for Wikidot so that people could write their own extensions.

I can not see a clear way to use Drupal extensions. This is an absolutely different approach, different API, database structures, database support in general… One can not execute Windows programs on Linux directly and this is exactly the same situation.

I have looked at Bravenet. I can not tell if I will finally add this or not to the embeddable services — I just need more time to explore it.

I would rather (as you have suggested) work on modules that:

• allow option: tell a friend — sends an email about the web page/site
• invite to a site — allow users to send email invitations
• invite as a contact — sends an email inviting someone to Wikidot and making his/her a contact of a person that has sent an email.

I think that when the new editor is ready we should start some serious actions to get new users. I am trying to work as fast as possible but there is still a lot to do ;-)

michal

Re: Support other product modules?

pieterh 1164132646|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Yes, it was unlikely that Drupal modules could work.

An extension API for wikidot is probably the most important factor to its long term success.