IMO, MediaWiki/SharePoint integration isn't a likely target for most developers. SharePoint's goals are very different from MediaWiki, to the point that an advocate for one is likely a dissenter to the other.
MediaWiki espouses openness and access, whereas SharePoint has a rigid hierarchical, siloing access control system. MediaWiki handles both edits to content and hosting that content; SharePoint expects content to be edited elsewhere and manually imported.
Speaking from experience, I used to work for a company that used SharePoint. It was horrible as a documentation distribution solution due in large part to the corporate attitude towards ownership and permissions. So documents would stagnate as the corporate structure would shift (people changing teams, responsibilities, etc). Then, even if the document you need exists, there's a fair chance you wouldn't be able to find and view it due to read permissions - and if you could, it was a near certainty you wouldn't be able to upload a new version if info therein was bad.
In searching for a solution for my own team's documentation needs, I came across MediaWiki and have been happy ever since.
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 10/26/07, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
I see that Confluence (a commercial wiki) has announced features that integrate with Microsoft SharePoint. Has anyone done something similar for MediaWiki to integrate with SharePoint? A quick Googling didn't reveal much.
http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint/features.jsp
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