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(a)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
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