On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:46:56 -0800, Aaron E. Klemm lists@axiomos.com wrote:
Is there an official collection of 3rd party activity? Does Wikimedia track/advertise 3rd parties that use the software--this is a secondary interest for me.
Well, users of the content are listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks (sorted by compliance level; note also the "in other languages links" if you want to investigate non-English versions). Users of the software, meanwhile, are listed at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki
I can't think of any particularly innovative uses, I'm afraid. thefreedictionary.com has some funky mouse-over previews of article introductions, but they're not much more than 'interface sugar'. The most notable use I've seen is probably clusty.com, which integrates the content fairly firmly into its cluster-based search engine, which is certainly an interesting idea.