Yaron,

No worries. I’m familiar with SMW and we use FlaggedRevs on our Mediawiki install. We don’t use SMW at the moment, but once things get a bit more organised we might very well start. Your answer still definitely gave me useful information. I looked up what Pfizer was doing with Mediawiki and found a fantastic presentation by them which I was able to share with the co-worker who initially asked me the question.

Thank you,

Derric Atzrott

From: mediawiki-enterprise-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-enterprise-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Yaron Koren
Sent: 20 May 2014 23:17
To: MediaWiki for enterprises
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-enterprise] Mediawiki in a regulated enviornment

Hi Derric,

I was just looking through my emails and saw this one, and realized that I misunderstood the question - for some reason, I thought this was sent to the Semantic MediaWiki mailing list, not the enterprise MediaWiki mailing list. Anyway, "SMW" stands for "Semantic MediaWiki", but if you just replace "SMW" with "MediaWiki", the answer is still valid.

-Yaron

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Yaron Koren <yaron@wikiworks.com> wrote:

Hi Derric,

I suppose it depends on what you mean by a "regulated industry", but there are certainly other companies that use SMW that are regulated by the FDA - Pfizer is one example.

And there are various SMW installations, regulated and otherwise, that use tools to allow for reviewing user changes; PendingChanges/FlaggedRevs and Approved Revs are two tools that are used for such purposes.

-Yaron

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Derric Atzrott <datzrott@alizeepathology.com> wrote:

Hello everyone,

Another employee at my work posed an interesting question to me today that I didn’t know the answer to. He asked, are there any other companies in regulated industries that make use of Mediawiki. I told him I’d ask here because I didn’t know.

To provide a little bit of context for the question: we are currently developing an extension that allows us to do risk assessments and software validation for compliance with the FDA’s CFR 21 Part 11. We are using Mediawiki as the basis for this because we already use it for our knowledge base and because this means that we can take advantage of the history tracking functionality of Mediawiki allowing us to see who changed what when, something that is reasonably important.

We also are making use of Mediawiki to allow electronic access our SOPs for most of the laboratory, this is controlled through the Pending Changes extension combined with page protection to ensure that changes can only be made by a few select people and that they get reviewed before going live.

I myself am also curious whether or not any other businesses make use of Mediawiki in similar ways or in similar enviornments.

Thank you,
Derric Atzrott
Computer Specialist
Alizee Pathology

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