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Jeremy Bowman (Deactivated) will put together a blended project brief to determine if submitting our modifications upstream and getting back onto an official django-wiki release could work as a blended development project. This would save us a nontrivial amount of effort on future Django upgrades, etc. in addition to gaining many improvements made to the upstream package in the past 8 years.

Future Ideas

For future hackathon projects, here are two ideas about which Marco Morales (Deactivated) is hopeful:

Community Response

• We could integrate in django-wiki in order to power a special response typed inside and Edx discussions.

• Specifically, we'd add a new type of response that was the community response.

• This response would allow all members of the community to collaborate on a single answer.

• In particular, this response type could be used on question post types in the discussion forum.

• Piazza (a platform for instructors to efficiently manage class discussions) has actually added this feature.

Resource Pages

• Perhaps the Django wiki could power a new type of post in our discussion forums called resource.

• These resource pages would be indexed and searchable in our discussions experience but would operate as a wiki with a full page editable interaction mode.

Both of these special post types (community response / resource page) could be an interesting way to combine wiki behavior in a discussion forum.