On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Trumble, Joyce <Joyce_Trumble(a)intuit.com>wrote;wrote:
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 :)