MediaWiki is a fantastic wiki, but it is TERRIBLE for document management. In a real document management system, here is how you edit a document: 1. Click the document, locking it from edits by other users 2. Edit it 3. Save it It's that simple. In MediaWiki, it looks like this, EVERY time you need to edit: 1. Download the document to your PC. 2. Edit it. 3. Save it. 4. Browse to the MediaWiki upload page 5. Upload it, using the same File:xxxxx name as the original document (assuming you remember it) 6. Panic, when you realize someone else uploaded the same document a few minutes before you did, and you just wiped out their changes without realizing. MediaWiki is not a content management system.  It's just an amazing wiki. DanB

My company intended to you MediaWiki basically for content management. Because of the inherent difficulties in that, it has become more of a navigation tool and the content is stored elsewhere. They like the wiki idea and are trying to figure out other uses for it. Does anoyone know if there is there another wiki which is better suited for content management? Thanks -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Barrett Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:49 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki sample implementation as document repository MediaWiki is a fantastic wiki, but it is TERRIBLE for document management. In a real document management system, here is how you edit a document: 1. Click the document, locking it from edits by other users 2. Edit it 3. Save it It's that simple. In MediaWiki, it looks like this, EVERY time you need to edit: 1. Download the document to your PC. 2. Edit it. 3. Save it. 4. Browse to the MediaWiki upload page 5. Upload it, using the same File:xxxxx name as the original document (assuming you remember it) 6. Panic, when you realize someone else uploaded the same document a few minutes before you did, and you just wiped out their changes without realizing. MediaWiki is not a content management system. It's just an amazing wiki. DanB _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l ********************************************************************** The information contained in this email is confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.clearswift.com ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l