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.
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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