Dave Sigafoos wrote:
a location where problems that have come up trying to do 'business' things with MW are addressed. As mentioned in my original post, these are things that will probably never fit into the MW/WP world. As you mentioned 'access restriction', different reporting/special pages. Processes that 'implementors' (probably better than business?) might need that WikiWorld wont.
This will sound more negative than I intend, but bear with me - I'll use a bit of hyperbole to make a point.
The business community has been getting a free ride on Internet stuff for a long time now. They have done little to contribute to the development of the Internet, WWW or much of anything else (network and software- or hardware-specific companies excepted). Yet they have been quick to grab onto whatever they can and warp it into something it was not intended to be (e.g - the WWW, a document publishing mechanism became a transaction processing system with kludges to HTML etc to support retail operations).
If the business community really needs something on the Internet, maybe they should put their money where their mouth is and make substantial contributions to the whole effort instead of taking stuff for free and expecting it to be modified to their wants.
---- I see a lot of demand for the kind of secure/restricted/whatever versions of wikis for business. I think that the business community should get together and _pay_ for such a system and then sell it to other businesses. Leave the wikis to the wiki users and create a lightweight document management system for businesses if that's what they really want.
Mike