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Note that we made our fork over 8 years ago, so upstream has made many changes in the meantime that we’d need to review, probably meriting somewhat careful a11y and security reviews at the very least.

Next Steps

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 Open 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.