Thanks. I finally told him to look specifically for document management software :(
-- Ivan Lanin
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
MediaWiki is a fantastic wiki, but it is TERRIBLE for document management.
In a real document management system, here is how you edit a document:
- Click the document, locking it from edits by other users
- Edit it
- Save it
It's that simple. In MediaWiki, it looks like this, EVERY time you need to edit:
- Download the document to your PC.
- Edit it.
- Save it.
- Browse to the MediaWiki upload page
- Upload it, using the same File:xxxxx name as the original document (assuming you remember it)
- Panic, when you realize someone else uploaded the same document a few minutes before you did, and you just wiped out their changes without realizing.
MediaWiki is not a content management system. It's just an amazing wiki.
DanB