Mediawiki as an Enterprise wiki - MediaWiki-l

10 Aug 2013

Hello,

(sorry for my poor English.)

This is probably a recurring question.

I work for an IT company of around 80 000 employees and we would like to
build an enterprise wiki, where we will put all our technical documentation
(how to, troubleshooting, scripting, etc.).

80 000 employees, but this wiki will be for 1000 of them. It may generate a
minimum of 200 000/300 000 pages + images + etc.

You have to know that in some of our documentation, we have usernames and
passwords, or maybe firewall configuration, etc. for different customers.

Of course, I know that Mediawiki cannot provide a per page/category security
(at a read level): my understanding is that Mediawiki is "Read all pages" or
"Access denied to all pages". nothing in between. So we cannot restrict view
of some documents to a specific group.

Fine.

So let's say that it's not a problem and that all our technicians will be
able to read all the technical documents, of all our customers.

Someone told me that we just don't have to put some confidential
informations in our wiki documents (no user/password/confidential
config/etc.).

Fine. But where ? If we don't put them in the wiki pages, it means that the
users will have to go in the wiki for the basic informations, then go on
another tool to have the confidential info.

Now, my question: how do you manage this ?

I really love Mediawiki and would like to implement it in our business, but
I haven't enough information on how this can be implemented in the reality
of a business.

And no: no budget to buy something like Confluence. 

I have try Dokuwiki, XWiki, Tiki, MoinMoin, many others. I love Dokuwiki
too, but wasn't sure enough it was a strong tool to be able to manage that
amount of pages/images/. Anyway, I always come back to MediaWiki. I don't
know why.

Best regards,

Pierre