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
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[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(a)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(a)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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