On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
One could possibly design a new wiki system as a pass-through layer, with MW as a back end and with functionality being migrated forwards into the new system over time as people got used to it.
I think there's an opportunity either for a reconceptualized enterprise oriented MW like system, but done in a clean sheet project and partly or entirely outside the Wikimedia Foundation, or for such a project as a passthrough layer intended to eventually replace MW and done within the Foundation. Whether either of these will ever happen I don't know. The most common Wikis seem to be MediaWiki (with all its warts), Twiki (with all its lack of functionality and administrative warts), and SharePoint (*cough*gack* - though I use it, too). None of these is optimal for the typical wiki environment, users or administrators. We seem to be muddling through.
Isn't this what Mindtouch Deki did? Deki is/was a fork of MediaWiki.
Ah, learn something new every day.
Confluence is also a fairly heavily used enterprise wiki.
I have never met a Confluence environment in the wild; overall user statistics I am aware of, and my personal experience, are that MW, Twiki, and Sharepoint dominate actual usage.
If you have better stats, I'm all ears. I am not in any way a Confluence opponent, and a couple of people I respect a lot like it, but I've never found an actual user out there.