Moodle HQ ask us two years ago to modify our DFWiki to replace default Moodle wiki. We were really excited about this opportunity. We knew that we would have to work hard, but we accepted the propousal.
We debugged our code, ewiki migration scripts were written and backups were tested one million times. But Moodle1.6 didn’t included NWiki.
Then Moodle.com send us a large TO-DO list for Moodle 1.7. There were several security issues to fix and some requirements to implements. We didn’t finish at time, all these tasks plus roles and XMLDB integration were too much.
You will get into core in Moodle 1.8. They forgot about us…
Moodle community was eager for our wiki, so somebody opened a issue in Moodle tracker to be put to the vote. NWiki got a plenty of votes. It’s the second most popular item of the site, but we still waiting…
During the last two weeks, it seemed to be some activity around this topic. Moodle.com was revising and testing our wiki. A Moodle new site was created to put NWiki to the test, but they also installed another wiki, OU Wiki. OU from Open University and Wiki to cheat community.
I installed this module one year ago and it was crashing all time. Reading Martin’s words, I thought that it have been improved and finished so I’ve been testing it few hours. What kind of wiki is it? An WYSIWYG editor with version control is not a wiki… What kind of joke is this.
Yesterday, Martin Dougiamas post this at Using Moodle forum. He said he can decide between NWiki and OU “Wiki”… I say you can decide between to please your community or to please your company. NWiki has thousands of users but, it’s box populi that Moodle.com and Open University work together to improve this CMS. It’s normal that they (OU) want to program the application core, they spent £5 million in their online learning environment!!!!
Wikis testing course include also a pair of choices. One for user-friendly experience and the other for developer-friendly code. What’s happening with the other voting, it does not count. Of course not! It was not an official voting…
I thing that comparing NWiki and OU “Wiki” is too difficult. Ours has a lot of features so it’s less easy to use. Ours has a lot of features so it has more code to read. OU’s has very/too simple so has less code (8 times less code) and is extremely easy to work with.
“It has a lot of fancy features……the code still reflects the fact that it was built by a team of students…” said Martin talking about our wiki. What’s up with you, mr. MD? Fancy features? Do you know what’s I+D+I? It’s a great work, users have technical or teaching problems and we find solutions. We are very pleased to create useful features, Moodle community said that, not me. There always is somebody that love and use these fancy features in their learning environments. Which are Moodle learning improvements of las two years? Do you really want to put social constructionist pedagogy into practice. You need a forum and a wiki. You have the first one, but you what’s up with ewiki? Everybody hates it and you are doing nothing to solve this problem.
You don’t like our code? I’m totally agree with you, it could be much better, but it works. It has some little bugs and PHP warnings but we always fix them as fast as we can. Is OU “Wiki” free of bugs? I crashed it in a minute. Can you crash ours or ewiki as fast as me?
This is a post to claim the right of our software and to work all my pent up anger down. We have nothing to worry about, Moodle huge community supports us. We will win. Otherwise, DFWiki will strike back….
Remember that you can vote for NWiki here, you only need to create an account. Thanks a lot for you time and support.
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