Hello, all.
I am planning a revamp and upgrade of an enterprise wiki jumping from 1.4.4 to 1.13. Management would like a "summary of significant changes" that will benefit the users and administrators. It is a very subjective question and combing through each of the release notes documents to garner the requested information will be time consuming. That said, I don't know of a more effective way to tackle the request. Does there exist, for the major releases, a summary of user-facing improvements? Searching the archives for "release notes" or "upgrades," while interesting reading, did not quite hit the target for me.
Best regards--
Joyce Trumble
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Trumble, Joyce Joyce_Trumble@intuit.comwrote:
Hello, all.
I am planning a revamp and upgrade of an enterprise wiki jumping from 1.4.4 to 1.13. Management would like a "summary of significant changes" that will benefit the users and administrators. It is a very subjective question and combing through each of the release notes documents to garner the requested information will be time consuming. That said, I don't know of a more effective way to tackle the request. Does there exist, for the major releases, a summary of user-facing improvements? Searching the archives for "release notes" or "upgrades," while interesting reading, did not quite hit the target for me.
Some of the earlier versions include "major changes" sections in their release notes; check these first. There's also the Major Release Notes page on MediaWiki.org http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Important_Release_Notes, although it doesn't offer summaries past a certain point.
I have a some items add to Platonides's list (if they're not manager-friendly enough, you can always throw in something about leveraging your core competencies to grow the effectiveness of your information technology infrastructure in the dynamic global marketplace): Critical security issues have been resolved More granular and effective access controls are available The new version is better documented and supported The interface has been revamped and refined Hundreds of extensions are available for 1.13 It's what the world's largest free encyclopedia uses :)
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