Hi guys!
Can anybody tell about the success story you've had with MediaWiki?
If you're not a good writer, here is the list of interesting questions. Of
course you can describe your story without looking at them.
- What was the project about?
- Who was the customer? Was it an open project?
- What the community looked like? Where those people on the wiki came from?
- Why you've chosen MediaWiki and not another solution?
- Did you program anything additional for MediaWiki, did you integrate with
some other services and applications?
- Or maybe you've elaborated some tricky methodology?
- How did the project change the life of your customer?
- Was the community motivated? How active they were?
- Did you provide any kind of support and consulting?
- Maybe you've provided admins, moderators, facilitators? How did you teach
them?
- Did you have any trainings?
- Anything about money? $-)
- What obstacles and difficulties have you faced?
- How much time did you spend on a different stages of your project?
- Do you have any open results? The project itself, the skins, extensions,
papers, articles, photos of the happy users?
- What have you learnt from the project?
- In general: was it worth it?
Cheers,
Yury Katkov, WikiVote
Hi everyone,
Here are some tools you might find useful for access control and embedded
content(including social media).
Also, is anyone interested in assisting Clement and Seizam with
refractoring/testing the code to go on git?
Mariya
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From: Clément Dietschy <clement(a)seizam.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Third-Party Users Wish List - Does Anyone Know
of Existing/Experimental Solutions?
To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> 2. Integrated access control
We've developed a rather reliable way for artists to control
read/edit/upload rights on their own page/files. Although the code is
not ready for forking, I haven't seen such advanced feature for MW yet
and it's at least a proof of concept. Note that only the page content
and the files are safely protected, logs (recent changes, histories,
search, edit summaries...) cannot be trusted yet.
Resources:
* Demonstration on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/57671929
* Extension:ProtectOwn (brings "read right", and "owner" access
control. /!\ ugly, should be broken down)
https://github.com/Seizam/seizamcore/tree/master/WikiZam/extensions/Protect…
* Note: Extension:ProtectOwn comes from Extension:AuthorProtect
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/Extension:AuthorProtect
* Extension:WikiPlace (our concept of private space, could be broken down)
https://github.com/Seizam/seizamcore/tree/master/WikiZam/extensions/Wikipla…
* What is a WikiPlace?
http://www.seizam.com/Help:Wikiplace
The reason why there is no page on MW.org and the code is not on WM's
git is because we don't have the resources to refactor and clean it
(as it should be done to avoid thousands of headaches). Sorry about
that, but it is GPL3 and we're eager to help whoever wants to test it,
use it and/or bring it forward.
> 6. An easy way to share wiki content on social media services.
Our Extension:WidgetsFramework allows easy embedding of external
content in the wiki, including social features. Already available
widgets are AddThis, Google+, Facebook, twitter...
Resources:
Demonstration on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/57689952MW.org: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WidgetsFramework
Code on Github:
https://github.com/Seizam/seizamcore/tree/master/WikiZam/extensions/Widgets…
Again, code is not on MW's git because of lacking resources. Again, sorry.
Hope all this can be helpful.
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Hi,
I am an intern working on reaching out to third-party MediaWiki users. I
was pointed to this link with notes on discussion at NOLA Hackaton 2011. I
was wondering if these issues/ideas are still valid and if there was any
follow up on them?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon/Saturday#Third-party_committer…
Thank you.
Mariya
Hi,
I am forwarding an email from the wikitech-l mailing list, which might be
interesting for people on this list.
If anyone else is maintaining or knows of a bundle that might be reused,
please share it here as well.
Thank you.
Mariya
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From: <vitalif(a)yourcmc.ru>
Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] MediaWiki Extension Bundles and Template Bundles
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On 01/14/2013 10:20 AM, Yuvi Panda wrote:
>
>> Is there a sort of 'Extension Bundle' that gets you baseline stuff that
>> people who are used to wikipedia 'expect'? ParserFunctions and Cite come
>> to
>> mind, but I'm sure there are plenty others.
>>
>
I don't know if this would be relevant to your question, but I have to say
that in our company we maintain and use our own MediaWiki distribution
"Mediawiki4Intranet"
(http://github.com/**mediawiki4intranet<http://github.com/mediawiki4intranet>,
http://wiki.4intra.net/) for all MW installations. It includes ~75
extensions, the set is not totally similar to WMF one, but we think it's
good for corporate (intranet) usage. You can try it out if you want, yet
some extensions are documented only in russian :-)
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On Mon 14 Jan 2013 11:56:50 AM EST, Dmitriy Sintsov wrote:
>> This does point to another possible way to backport the changes -- some
>> sort of compatibility extension. That allows the core to remain stable,
>> but allows people to use some newer extensions if they need the
>> features.
>>
> I am not sure Wikimedia would like to put their efforts on this.
Agreed. I didn't say they should.
The WMF is focused on its vision (which doesn't include supporting
non-WMF users of MW). In the mean time, they've made this software
available for the world to use.
> My own experience shows that most of site owners are quite greedy
> people. Maybe I am bad at business though.
People are people.
We're slipping off topic here, but in as far as this relates to users of
MediaWiki, I'll continue.
First, I should say that I've worked closely with people across the
spectrum of business. I've worked with, and count as friends, several
small business owners who run on-line sites as their core business.
On the other "side", I have friends who work at or run non-profits or
charities including some at the WMF.
My friends who are site owners are, on the whole, no more
self-interested than any of my other friends. They are focused on
maintaining the business just as my friends at the WMF is focused on
keeping Wikipedia and its sister sites running.
If we want something more from MediaWiki, we can ask the WMF for it,
but, since we have the GPL license on the software, we are also
empowered to do it ourselves if the WMF is not interested in helping.
Semantic MediaWiki is a great example of this happening and many non-WMF
users of MediaWiki use SMW.
I think MediaWiki core alone can (and does!) benefit many people outside
the Foundation in just the same way that SMW does. We have the power to
make it more suitable for our own non-WMF uses.
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