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WikiBot2 Plugin

This Bot integrates the successful opensource CMS Solution, Joomla, with the free Encyclopedia, WikiPedia. When activated [[wikitagged]] words in Joomla contents will become hyperlinked to WikiPedia articles. Wikibot2 is the Joomla 1.5 version of the Wikibot for 1.0.x. Missing in 2.0.0 compared to 1.5.x: * Fish multilanguage support is still missing, but is soon to be added! New in 2.0.0: * A global switch for direct or search wikilinks. * Set own wikisiteurl as a global variable. * Set own wikisitename as a global variable.

UPDATE: 5 Oct 2010 - A 1.6 version was submitted for review.
UPDATE: 11 Jan 2011 - A 1.6 version was again submitted for review.
UPDATE: 26 Jan 2011 - New version that support php 5.3 (Uses explode instead of split)

A 1.6 version of WikiBot is downloadable at download site.

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2011-10-23
Reviews: 4
All links are generated with // instead of / (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//body) for [[body]]. If german has been selected as language, it continues with english on Joomla 1.5.24
2011-01-24
Reviews: 3
The plug isn't working correctly with php 5.3 anymore, since it uses the funtion split().
Owner's reply

The new version does (have replaced split with explode)

2010-11-13
Reviews: 1
Overall function is good. But it has a con that it does not fully link an article which actually includes colon in title. For example, the code [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]] links to only "The Wind Waker" instead of the full name.
2008-04-03
Reviews: 5
Very nice and worth full plug in. I use it on many sites
Thank You for the good work

Evert Jan Hooijer
Dutch
2007-09-24
Reviews: 15
If you like Wikipedia you will love this Extension.

Really easy to install and use, with quite a few config options at the back end.
2007-09-24
Reviews: 44
i like this one very much and decided to use this wiki related bot instead of the other bot moswiki,that shows the whole article.
Using these two together is for now impossible cause of the function botWiki_replacer that will cause an error on your site.
2007-08-15
Reviews: 43
+ very simple to install and use
+ useful (it will be boring inserting manually all wikipedia liks)
+ good features: specific link color, ability to select wikipedia server (en, it, fr, ...), ability to specify different article name for the link

- it will be also very nice the ability to select an alternative server for a particular link; in example I use the italian site, but some words can be missing; so it will be nice to have a tag like this: [[Joomla]], that force using en.wikipedia.org.