(preface: this is all my understanding, and could be wrong - I'm only versed in the general details at best)
I don't think it would qualify as a fork. Liferay is a Portal engine more than anything else. Similar in a lot of ways to IBM WebSphere Portal product. The original wiki "portlet" in Liferay was weak - based on Friki, which is pretty much dead. From Fall of 2007 forward, there was a lot of discussion within the liferay community about how to improve the wiki portlet, as it was a very weak portion compared to the whole. A lot of discussion was documented within Liferay's wiki (they did not even use their own wiki, but rather Mediawiki) here: http://wiki.liferay.com/index.php/Wiki_Overhaul As far as what has been implemented (will be in Liferay 5.0, I guess only available in SVN trunk right now): Jorge Ferrer was able to implement the Liferay "wiki engine" into the framework of what their portal system. I have not loaded it yet, so speaking without first hand knowledge - but in the original discussions, he was planning to build a framework that could support multiple wiki engines selectable at some point by the user. Jorge made an earlier blog posting here: http://www.liferay.com/web/jferrer/1/blogs/wiki_overhaul_____continues?_33_redirect=%2Fweb%2Fjferrer%2F1%3Fp_p_id%3D33%26p_p_action%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26_33_struts_action%3D%252Fblogs%252Fview&; (not a lot of detail, but... probably describes what he was doing better than I can) I'll be glad to post a request for more detail on liferay's site and see what can be learned further, if you have anything specific questions for them, pls. let me know. -Vaughan Schmidt On Thursday 28 February 2008 05:14:17 Derek Hohls wrote: > Is there any more background on this? Is this a fork of JSPWiki; > from the web page referred to, it looks like "just another wiki" > but the only reference made to JSPWiki is that the syntax is > similar. > > >>> On 2008/02/28 at 12:23, in message > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vaughan Schmidt > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just a general announcement of sorts - goes back to discussion late > last year. > > The folks (Jorge Ferrer, primarily) at Liferay have incorporated > JSPWiki engine into Liferay's Wiki. > > see Jorge's blog posting: > > > > (hope ( http://(hope/ ) that link works, if not - go to > Liferay.com, select "Community" menu and go to "Blogs" option. > From there, easy to find) > > I am very happy to see this happen - I like Liferay, I like JSPWiki > - put together they make for a powerfull portal / CMS / wiki > solution. > > -Vaughan Schmidt
