On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane32(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One could
possibly design a new wiki system as a pass-through layer,
with MW as a back end and with functionality being migrated forwards
into the new system over time as people got used to it.
I think there's an opportunity either for a reconceptualized
enterprise oriented MW like system, but done in a clean sheet project
and partly or entirely outside the Wikimedia Foundation, or for such a
project as a passthrough layer intended to eventually replace MW and
done within the Foundation. Whether either of these will ever happen
I don't know. The most common Wikis seem to be MediaWiki (with all
its warts), Twiki (with all its lack of functionality and
administrative warts), and SharePoint (*cough*gack* - though I use it,
too). None of these is optimal for the typical wiki environment,
users or administrators. We seem to be muddling through.
Isn't this what Mindtouch Deki did? Deki is/was a fork of MediaWiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MindTouch_Deki
Ah, learn something new every day.
Confluence is also a fairly heavily used enterprise
wiki.
I have never met a Confluence environment in the wild; overall user
statistics I am aware of, and my personal experience, are that MW,
Twiki, and Sharepoint dominate actual usage.
If you have better stats, I'm all ears. I am not in any way a
Confluence opponent, and a couple of people I respect a lot like it,
but I've never found an actual user out there.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com