Atlassian sells a Confluence in the cloud at a per seat cost. VisualEditor would make MediaWiki a decent competitor from the perspective of the corporate types I've seen involved in such purchasing decisions. I'm not sure how much traction it'd have but there is something to say for MediaWiki being the wiki that everyone is used to.
Nik
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Andre Polykanine andre@oire.org wrote:
Hi everyone, Agreed with Brion completely. Such hosting would be an extremely useful thing, but it should have no ads (at least as a payed option), be able to redirect to a custom domain, and have all the things Brion mentioned. I would pay for it, I think.
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------------ Original message ------------ From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Date created: , 9:13:26 PM Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service?
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org Date: 1 October 2013 19:11 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Officially supported MediaWiki hosting service? To: Wikimedia-tech list wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Question for the group:
Would an officially supported general-purpose MediaWiki hosting service be useful to people who would like to run wikis, but don't have the time, expertise, or resources to maintain their own installation?
If so, what can we (as interested parties in MediaWiki development and use) do to make this happen?
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