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Wiki Creator

Maintained by Miguël Dhyne
The Wiki Creator plugin enables Moodle administrators to quickly generate multiple pages in an existing wiki for one or more groups, using a simple JSON configuration. It supports adding custom content and optional group name prefixes to each page, streamlining the setup of group wikis.
Price option: Free

Supports Moodle 3.11-5.2 See all versions
Latest release: 3 weeks ago
Installations: 5
Downloads (last 90 days): 32

Frankenstyle name: local_wikicreator
Local plugins

Description

📚 Wiki Creator – Bulk-create structured wiki pages for your groups

Wiki Creator helps Moodle administrators quickly generate multiple structured pages inside an existing wiki activity, for one or more groups, in just one guided workflow.

No more repetitive manual page creation. Define your wiki structure once, preview everything safely, and let the plugin create the pages for you

" How it works

  1. 🔎 Search for a course by name, short name or ID

  2. 📘 Select a wiki activity in that course

  3. ' Choose one or more target groups

  4. 🧩 Define your pages using a simple JSON structure
    title ' HTML content

  5. ' Preview the result before anything is written

  6. " Confirm creation

The plugin then creates the missing pages and automatically skips pages that already exist.

🚀 Key features

  • 🔎 Course autocomplete search by name, short name or course ID

  • 📘 Instant wiki picker based on the selected course

  • ' Dynamic group picker with fast loading

  • 🧪 Live JSON syntax check

  • 🧱 Structural validation
    Checks object type, empty keys and HTML content

  • ' Full dry-run preview before writing anything

  • 🏷️ NEW / EXISTS badges per page and per group

  • -️ Inline HTML render toggle
    Preview the actual rendered output before committing

  • " Confirmation dialog with page and group counts

  • 🧩 Optional group name prefix automatically added to each page

  • 📤 Export tab
    Extract an existing wiki as JSON, then copy it, download it or inject it directly into the creation editor

  • 🔁 Duplicate wiki structures across courses with minimal effort
 
🧭 Where to find it

Site administration ' Plugins ' Local plugins ' Wiki Creator

🔐 Security and privacy

  • ' Administrators only

  • 🛡️ Session key required on all AJAX calls

  • 🧼 Content sanitised with Moodle’s clean_text()

  • 🧾 GDPR-neutral
    No personal data is stored by the plugin

' Typical use cases

Wiki Creator is especially useful when you need to:

  • prepare the same wiki structure for several groups;

  • duplicate collaborative templates across courses;

  • create guided wiki pages for projects, portfolios or group work;

  • save time when setting up structured learning activities.


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