On this note, MTV Networks (my previous job) switched from using
Mediawiki to Confluence a couple years ago. They mainly cited ease of
use and Microsoft Office integration as the reasons. Personally I hated
it, except for the dashboard interface, which was pretty slick. Some
Wikipedia power-users have similar dashboard style interfaces that they
have custom built on their User Pages, but I think it would be cool if
we let people add these sort of interfaces without having to be a
template-hacker.
The sort of interface I'm talking about would include stuff like
community and WikiProject notices and various real-time stats. If you
were a vandal fighter, you would get a vandalism thermometer, streaming
incident notices, a recent changes feed, etc. If you were a content
reviewer, you would get lists of the latest Featured Article and Good
Article candidates, as well as the latest images nominated for Featured
Picture Status, and announcements from the Guild of Copyeditors. The
possibilities are endless.
Ryan Kaldari
On 12/31/10 4:35 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil
Kandalgaonkar"<neilk(a)wikimedia.org>
Meanwhile, MediaWiki is perhaps too powerful and
too complex to
administer for the small organization. I work with a small group of
artists that run a MediaWiki instance and whenever online collaboration
has to happen, nobody in this group says "Let's make a wiki page!"
Why not?
That used to happen, but nowadays they go
straight to Google Docs.
Oh.
Well, that's bad. But people will choose the wrong tools; I don't think
that's evidence that MediaWiki's Broken As Designed.
"Too powerful and complex to administer"?
It needs administration? In a small organization?
I set one up at my previous employers, and used it to take all my notes,
which required exactly zero administration: I just slapped it on a box,
and I was done.
And my successor is *very* happy about it. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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