You can now click around in the wiki without losing your course nav bar.

lms/djangoapps/course_wiki/course_nav.py

 import re
+from urlparse import urlparse
 
 from django.http import Http404
 from django.shortcuts import redirect
@@ -6,6 +7,44 @@ from django.shortcuts import redirect
 from courseware.courses import check_course
 
 
+class Middleware(object):
+    """
+    This middleware is to keep the course nav bar above the wiki while
+    the student clicks around to other wiki pages.
+    If it intercepts a request for /wiki/.. that has a referrer in the
+    form /courses/course_id/... it will redirect the user to the page
+    /courses/course_id/wiki/...
+    """
+    
+    def process_request(self, request):
+        #TODO: We should also redirect people who can't see the class to the regular wiki, so urls don't break
+        
+        referer = request.META.get('HTTP_REFERER')
+        
+        try:
+            parsed_referer = urlparse(referer)
+            referer_path = parsed_referer.path
+        except:
+            referer_path =""
+        
+        path_match = re.match(r'^/wiki/(?P<wiki_path>.*|)$', request.path)
+        if path_match:
+            # We are going to the wiki. Check if we came from a course
+            course_match = re.match(r'/courses/(?P<course_id>[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+)/.*', referer_path)
+            if course_match:
+                course_id = course_match.group('course_id')
+                
+                # See if we are able to view the course. If we are, redirect to it
+                try:
+                    course = check_course(request.user, course_id)
+                    return redirect("/courses/" + course.id + "/view_wiki/" + path_match.group('wiki_path') )
+                    
+                except Http404:
+                    # Even though we came from the course, we can't see it. So don't worry about it.
+                    pass
+                
+        return None
+
 def context_processor(request):
     """
     This is a context processor which looks at the URL while we are
@@ -15,7 +54,7 @@ def context_processor(request):
     bar to be shown.
     """
     
-    match = re.match(r'^/courses/(?P<course_id>[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+)/wiki(?P<wiki_path>.*|)', request.path)
+    match = re.match(r'^/courses/(?P<course_id>[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+)/view_wiki(?P<wiki_path>.*|)', request.path)
     if match:
         course_id = match.group('course_id')
         

lms/envs/common.py

@@ -328,6 +328,8 @@ MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
     'track.middleware.TrackMiddleware',
     'mitxmako.middleware.MakoMiddleware',
+    
+    'course_wiki.course_nav.Middleware',
 
     'askbot.middleware.anon_user.ConnectToSessionMessagesMiddleware',
     'askbot.middleware.forum_mode.ForumModeMiddleware',

lms/urls.py

@@ -172,9 +172,9 @@ if settings.WIKI_ENABLED:
         
         # These urls are for viewing the wiki in the context of a course. They should
         # never be returned by a reverse() so they come after the other url patterns
-        url(r'^courses/(?P<course_id>[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+)/wiki$',
+        url(r'^courses/(?P<course_id>[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+)/wiki/?$',
             'course_wiki.views.course_wiki_redirect', name="course_wiki"),
-        url(r'^courses/(?:[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+)/wiki/', include(wiki_pattern())),
+        url(r'^courses/(?:[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+)/view_wiki/', include(wiki_pattern())),
     )
 
 if settings.QUICKEDIT: