I see that Confluence (a commercial wiki) has announced features that integrate with Microsoft SharePoint. Has anyone done something similar for MediaWiki to integrate with SharePoint? A quick Googling didn't reveal much.
http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint/features.jsp
DanB
IMO, MediaWiki/SharePoint integration isn't a likely target for most developers. SharePoint's goals are very different from MediaWiki, to the point that an advocate for one is likely a dissenter to the other.
MediaWiki espouses openness and access, whereas SharePoint has a rigid hierarchical, siloing access control system. MediaWiki handles both edits to content and hosting that content; SharePoint expects content to be edited elsewhere and manually imported.
Speaking from experience, I used to work for a company that used SharePoint. It was horrible as a documentation distribution solution due in large part to the corporate attitude towards ownership and permissions. So documents would stagnate as the corporate structure would shift (people changing teams, responsibilities, etc). Then, even if the document you need exists, there's a fair chance you wouldn't be able to find and view it due to read permissions - and if you could, it was a near certainty you wouldn't be able to upload a new version if info therein was bad.
In searching for a solution for my own team's documentation needs, I came across MediaWiki and have been happy ever since.
-- Jim R. Wilson (jimbojw)
On 10/26/07, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
I see that Confluence (a commercial wiki) has announced features that integrate with Microsoft SharePoint. Has anyone done something similar for MediaWiki to integrate with SharePoint? A quick Googling didn't reveal much.
http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint/features.jsp
DanB _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
All that being said, the list of features at http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint/features.jsp would be interesting for any company that has both a wiki and SharePoint.
(Also I've heard that SharePoint 2007 is way better than previous editions. YMMV.)
DanB
-----Original Message----- Jim Wilson writes:
IMO, MediaWiki/SharePoint integration isn't a likely target for most developers. SharePoint's goals are very different from MediaWiki, to the point that an advocate for one is likely a dissenter to the other....
I think that an extension that allowed documents stored in a SharePoint directory to be linked to from MediaWiki is a perfectly valid and useful thing to do... even better would be an extension that allowed users to use SharePoint as a repository for document up-loads to MediaWiki.
Remember that while MediaWiki isn't designed to be used as an "enterprise wiki" it is widely used by companies ranging from very large corporations to small businesses - Some of the higher profile users of MediaWiki are Pfizer, Nokia and Razor Fish - It seems to me that there is a clear advantage to the MediaWiki community and the not-for-profit projects that it powers if there are opportunities for devs to get day jobs/make money from consulting on MediaWiki integrations.
let me know if I can do anything to help move this idea forward.
Paul Y
On 10/26/07, Daniel Barrett danb@vistaprint.com wrote:
All that being said, the list of features at http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint/features.jsp would be interesting for any company that has both a wiki and SharePoint.
(Also I've heard that SharePoint 2007 is way better than previous editions. YMMV.)
DanB
-----Original Message----- Jim Wilson writes:
IMO, MediaWiki/SharePoint integration isn't a likely target for most developers. SharePoint's goals are very different from MediaWiki, to the point that an advocate for one is likely a dissenter to the other....
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SharePoint 2007 differs from SharePoint 2003 in many ways. One important one is that SharePoint now includes content management features (subsuming the old Microsoft CMS). In organizations adopting SharePoint as a Content Management System (whether for good or ill), it may be that SharePoint integration will become a survival issue for wikis.
I found the description of Confluence/SharePoint integration at the URL provided by DanB quite compelling. It sounds like you could build SharePoint sites in such a way that Confluence could not be abandoned until SharePoint was.
-- Joshua
P.S. The SharePoint 2007 "wiki" feature is extremely feature-poor. It has page versioning, internal bracket-links, and a WYSIWIG editor, and that's about it. Of course, that could change with Service Pack 1...
-- Joshua
On 10/26/07 12:00 PM, "Daniel Barrett" danb@VistaPrint.com wrote:
All that being said, the list of features at http://www.atlassian.com/sharepoint/features.jsp would be interesting for any company that has both a wiki and SharePoint.
(Also I've heard that SharePoint 2007 is way better than previous editions. YMMV.)
DanB
-----Original Message----- Jim Wilson writes:
IMO, MediaWiki/SharePoint integration isn't a likely target for most developers. SharePoint's goals are very different from MediaWiki, to the point that an advocate for one is likely a dissenter to the other....
MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
-- Joshua
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