On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Dan Andreescu
<dandreescu@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Sorry about that - Gmail reload glitch
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