A wiki for phpBB with version history, side-by-side compare, and a moderation queue for edits.
- A wiki at
/wiki, with an overview page listing its articles. - Start an article from the overview page's New article title box, or by linking to
/wiki/<article-name>and following the link. - Link to another article by writing
[[Article name]], in articles and in forum posts; links to articles that don't exist yet are shown in red and open the editor. Each article lists the articles that link to it under What links here. See Linking between articles. - Every edit is saved as a new version; compare any two versions side by side.
- Edits can wait for approval: moderators get a Pending articles list with Approve and Reject. Approving a version older than the live one is blocked, so a stale draft can't overwrite newer content.
- Moderators can take an article offline or delete it, and articles can be made sticky or set to redirect.
- Notifications when an edit is waiting for approval.
- Separate permissions for viewing, editing, version history, deleting and moderating.
| Overview | Article |
|---|---|
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| Editing | Pending review |
|---|---|
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Approving or rejecting a pending edit shows a diff against the currently active version:
The version history page also has a "Moderator controls" dropdown for taking an active article offline or deleting it entirely:
Write an article's name in double square brackets to link to it, in wiki articles and in forum posts:
[[Installation]]links to the article Installation.[[Installation|how to install]]links to the same article but shows how to install.
Links to articles that don't exist yet are shown in red, and following one opens the editor to create that article. The Wiki link button in the editor toolbar inserts the brackets. Inside a [code] block the brackets stay plain text.
Below each article, What links here lists the other articles whose current version links to it.
 Links, with missing articles in red |
 What links here |
 The editor button (outlined) |
Articles and posts written before this feature existed get their links the next time they are edited. To convert them all at once, run phpBB's reparser from the board's folder: php bin/phpbbcli.php reparser:reparse phpbbmodders_wiki_article for articles and php bin/phpbbcli.php reparser:reparse post_text for forum posts.
- phpBB 3.3.19 or later (also tested on phpBB 4.0)
- PHP 7.4 or later
Tested versions and compatibility notes: docs/compatibility.md.
- Copy the extension to
/ext/phpbbmodders/wiki - In the Administration Control Panel, go to Customise → Manage extensions
- Enable the phpBB Modders Wiki extension
- Set who can view and edit the wiki under the usual Permissions screens
This extension used to be installed as tas2580/wiki. It is now
phpbbmodders/wiki. To switch an existing board without losing any
articles, versions, permissions or notification settings:
- Disable the old tas2580 Wiki extension in the ACP. Do not delete its data.
- Delete the
/ext/tas2580/wikifolder. - Upload this version to
/ext/phpbbmodders/wikiand enable it. The old install's migration history, notification type and users' notification settings are moved to the new name automatically; the wiki tables themselves never included the old name, so they are used as they are. - Purge the board cache.
If you disable the old extension from the command line (bin/phpbbcli.php)
instead of the ACP, run bin/phpbbcli.php cache:purge before enabling the
new one; the command-line disable doesn't clear the cache.
Ideas not yet built, practical and speculative alike: docs/TODO.md.
Contributions are welcome!
- Bug reports: Open an issue.
- Everything else (questions, feature requests, ideas, general discussion): Use Discussions, or the community forum.
- Pull requests are welcome for bug fixes or discussed features.
- Original extension by tas2580.
- Updated for phpBB 3.2.x (notification API fixes, textreparser support) by Christian Schnegelberger (Crizz0) in the phpBB.de fork.
- This fork builds on Crizz0's phpBB.de branch: fixed phpBB 3.3.x/4.0 compatibility (routing, YAML parsing, notification API, Flash BBCode removal), completed missing English translations, added an approve/reject moderation queue for pending articles, and general bug fixes.
- Code review, bug fixes, and documentation assisted by Claude.
This extension is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0.
See license.txt for more information.