On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:14 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:

http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9886332-56.html

"Microsoft researcher Steve Ickman said while the company's internal SharePoint site is great for some uses, there are some features that the Wikipedia engine has that are missing in Microsoft's product. One big thing is the engine's ability to archive. On the SharePoint site, typically only the current status of a project is shown."

Definitely MediaWiki - there's a photo.

So expect our Windows performance to significantly improve, then ;-D

(Mind you, Zend PHP has apparently had a speedup too -

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/71347,php-optimised-for-windows-server-2008.as... )

• d.

Are the media incapable of figuring out that the magical pixie dust that makes Wikipedia work actually has a name?

"Mediaw--Mediawi--Oh, let's just call it the 'Wikipedia engine.'"

Maybe I'm just being gripey, but this seems like the equivalent of referring to Windows Server 2008 as "That Microsoft Doohickey."

The way that article's written, you'd think Microsoft had devoted a crack team to "build" an advanced piece of software rather than using open-source software that takes five minutes to install.

This is definitely a promising development: I just wish the media would start treating MediaWiki the way they would any other software.