Last modified: 2014-09-23 19:48:34 UTC
Idea: a MediaWiki plugin per http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://github.com/ether/pad/issuesearch%3Fstate%3Dopen%26q%3Dmediawiki%23issue/187 or some kind of extension or plugin that makes Etherpad instances support MediaWiki auth. (Discussed a little here: https://groups.google.com/group/etherpad-open-source-discuss/browse_thread/thread/1c8b24b5a0d0664a/2e0ed6fef6e7fdd3 )
heck yes. :) I have heard many many many people who want this. (It was actually discussed last week in an irc meeting of Wikinews contributors) Actually doing this sounds rather difficult though, more then a gsoc project in scope. (Unless it was implemented in a purely superficial way such as supporting mediawiki auth in etherpad). That's not to mention I imagine there would probably be quite a lot of scalability/efficiency concerns (If the goal was to have it on 'pedia), but even a plugin which could only be used on small scale wikis would be a big win.
NeilK is working on this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future/Real-time_collaboration
Thomas Gries's https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherpadLite might be useful here.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EtherEditor is an implementation, by Mark Holmquist, of Etherpad editing within a MediaWiki installation. I'm thus marking this closed.
Ehhh, but it's broken. A lot. I think cscott had a few ideas on the burner, so I'll reopen and ping him to add some details.
Try out the TogetherJS collaboration for the text field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cscott/common.js
