A discussion on wikitech-l you might find interesting.
Mariya
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeroen De Dauw jeroendedauw@gmail.com Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:37 PM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Comparisons to Confluence (was Minimalist MediaWiki? (was Re: Merge Vector extension into core)) To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Hey,
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.
This is not something WMF is interested in doing, that has been made extremely clear in the last year.
Agree, I also think this is the main issue, and know other people active with MW outside WMF think the same.
Cheers
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