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On 02/06/2013 10:00 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
For corporate
adoption, the main thing MediaWiki needs is not some
> particular feature. It needs to be supported. It needs an organisation
> with people who will care if corporate users are screwed over by a
> change. It needs community management, so that the features needed by
> corporate users will be discoverable and well-maintained, rather than
> developed privately, over and over. And it needs the smallest nudge of
> promotion, on top of what Wikipedia fans are doing for it. Say, a
> nice-looking website aimed at this user base.
I was on the other side of this, albeit a while back. We had to decide
between MediaWiki and Confluence to power Disney's ParentPedia (which has
since been abandoned):
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/13/disney_eisner/
http://family.go.com/parenting/
The main reasons we chose Confluence:
* An easier to understand API. This seems to not be a problem any more:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code
* Easier setup on Windows:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows, possibly
made easier now by Bitnami:
http://bitnami.org/stack/mediawiki
Do we have a place where people can talk through problems with corporate
adoption? I suspect Tim's correct about the general case but that focusing
on specifics would drive adoption.
Dan