Office wikis are useful for all manner of business collaboration, e.g. administering the US federal budget:
http://www.freepress.net/news/29933
- d.
On Jan 29, 2008 3:08 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Office wikis are useful for all manner of business collaboration, e.g. administering the US federal budget:
http://www.freepress.net/news/29933
- d.
I'm curious about what portion of corporate and governmental wikis actually run MediaWiki: Virtually all mainstream news articles seem to talk about "wiki" in the abstract, rather than naming the actual software used (and when they do, they often make statements that are misleading, overgeneralizing, or just wrong [e.g., < http://www.gcn.com/print/25_25/41674-1.html%3E, regarding the generalizations about CamelCase in wiki software]).
I know there are varying numbers on the "market penetration" of different wiki software, but what data is available on the _internal_ use of such software (if only for determining whether MediaWiki is what companies jump right to, or whether they tend to opt for commercial software)?
On 29/01/2008, Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
I know there are varying numbers on the "market penetration" of different wiki software, but what data is available on the _internal_ use of such software (if only for determining whether MediaWiki is what companies jump right to, or whether they tend to opt for commercial software)?
I'm not sure there's such a thing as a reliable survey. I know Confluence is popular in the corporate world. MediaWiki's main advantage is looking and working just like Wikipedia, and it's not too painful to sysadmins, but doesn't come in a shiny fluffy package. MoinMoin is for geeks, but I'm missing all its extra text formatting options (particularly being able to use ` ` instead of <tt></tt> when writing about command-line stuff). Does anyone know of evidence that isn't just anecdotal?
- d.
--On Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:26 PM -0500 Emufarmers Sangly emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
I know there are varying numbers on the "market penetration" of different wiki software, but what data is available on the _internal_ use of such software (if only for determining whether MediaWiki is what companies jump right to, or whether they tend to opt for commercial software)?
When I first looked at wikis I was concerned with access control, and Twiki looked good, but right after I loaded a copy to play with, they had their first big security scare and a lot of sites got hacked.
Now I've got a little MediaWiki experience with public sites and I need to investigate whether/how it can be set up to provide limited access to only those inside the company (but possibly from their home office, without requiring a VPN).
I found this page on an enterprise deployment SIG:
mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org