Richard wrote:
Obviously [Yaron's] book is newer and more updated than the O'Reilly one, but I'd be curious to see how it compared to the O'Reilly one otherwise if someone has read them both.
Hi, I wrote the O'Reilly book.
Yaron's book is surely more current with Mediawiki syntax and development practices. Go buy it. :-)
Where my book stands out, even today, is in coverage of the practical, big-picture issues of planning, rolling out, and maintaining a wiki in a large, corporate environment. (For example, see Chapter 10, "Practical wiki design.") My team at Vistaprint runs possibly the largest and most successful corporate wiki in the U.S. if not the world. It's 10 years old this Friday and has 250K topics, thousands of users, 100+ custom extensions, and a full-time software development staff since its inception. So we've accumulated a lot of wisdom, and I tried to distill some of it into the book.
FYI, my direct report, Daniel Renfro, presented on some of our work and our current challenges at EMWcon last week.
DanB
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
Richard wrote:
Obviously [Yaron's] book is newer and more updated than the O'Reilly one, but I'd be curious to see how it compared to the O'Reilly one otherwise if someone has read them both.
Hi, I wrote the O'Reilly book.
Yaron's book is surely more current with Mediawiki syntax and development practices. Go buy it. :-)
Where my book stands out, even today, is in coverage of the practical, big-picture issues of planning, rolling out, and maintaining a wiki in a large, corporate environment. (For example, see Chapter 10, "Practical wiki design.") My team at Vistaprint runs possibly the largest and most successful corporate wiki in the U.S. if not the world. It's 10 years old this Friday and has 250K topics, thousands of users, 100+ custom extensions, and a full-time software development staff since its inception. So we've accumulated a lot of wisdom, and I tried to distill some of it into the book.
Your book saved me on many occasions.
FYI, my direct report, Daniel Renfro, presented on some of our work and our current challenges at EMWcon last week.
Were these talks recorded by any chance? I'd love to watch them.
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Hi, Bill,
Here [1] you can get the links to the streaming
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/EMWCon_Spring_2017
Saludos,
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2017-03-15 20:35 GMT+01:00 Bill Traynor btraynor@gmail.com:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
Richard wrote:
Obviously [Yaron's] book is newer and more updated than the O'Reilly one, but I'd be curious to see how it compared to the O'Reilly one otherwise if someone has read them both.
Hi, I wrote the O'Reilly book.
Yaron's book is surely more current with Mediawiki syntax and development practices. Go buy it. :-)
Where my book stands out, even today, is in coverage of the practical, big-picture issues of planning, rolling out, and maintaining a wiki in a large, corporate environment. (For example, see Chapter 10, "Practical wiki design.") My team at Vistaprint runs possibly the largest and most successful corporate wiki in the U.S. if not the world. It's 10 years old this Friday and has 250K topics, thousands of users, 100+ custom extensions, and a full-time software development staff since its inception. So we've accumulated a lot of wisdom, and I tried to distill some of it into the book.
Your book saved me on many occasions.
FYI, my direct report, Daniel Renfro, presented on some of our work and our current challenges at EMWcon last week.
Were these talks recorded by any chance? I'd love to watch them.
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In article HE1PR01MB13074F699F4EF40F228CF367B4270@HE1PR01MB1307.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com writes:
Hi, I wrote the O'Reilly book.
THanks for that book, Daniel! It really helped me quite a bit in setting up my terminals wiki. It was indispensible in learning how to import templates from wikipedia and how to write my own fairly complex templates.
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