Hi Dan,

We have http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Third-party_MediaWiki_users_discussion where we've been discussing some MW user issues, but the dicussion was not focused on corporate per se. We can use the same page or maybe set up a subpage if you think it will be easier. There is also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Enterprise_hub. If anyone know of another appropriate place, please share.

I would be glad to see such a space set up and discussion going on and would be happy to assist with that.

Mariya

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.orgwrote:

Sorry about that - Gmail reload glitch

On 02/06/2013 10:00 PM, Tim Starling wrote:

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For corporate adoption, the main thing MediaWiki needs is not some

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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.

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