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.
DoD uses it for Techipedia, which is a fairly large wiki:
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-dodtechipedia-sidebar.aspx
I don't see why they didn't go the MediaWiki route, like Intellipedia though. I suspect they wanted ACLs.
Wikimedia uses confluence too (https://confluence.toolserver.org/pages/listpages-dirview.action?key=main). I found that funny when that was posted in another thread :).
MediaWiki isn't really designed to be an enterprise wiki, but it works fairly well as one given enough effort. Installing Semantic MediaWiki and associated extensions gives it a clear advantage over most enterprise wikis IMO.
Respectfully,
Ryan Lane
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
Wikimedia uses confluence too (https://confluence.toolserver.org/pages/listpages-dirview.action?key=main). I found that funny when that was posted in another thread :).
Point of note: The Toolserver belongs to Wikimedia Deutschland, a chapter project, and isn't really Wikimedia Organisation with how your implying.
-Peachey
* Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com [Wed, 3 Mar 2010 00:00:30 -0600]:
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.
DoD uses it for Techipedia, which is a fairly large wiki:
http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/12/gcn-awards-dodtechipedia-sidebar.aspx
I don't see why they didn't go the MediaWiki route, like Intellipedia though. I suspect they wanted ACLs.
While reading about OpenCyc I was suprprised to find out that Halo Extension (which is built on top of Semantic MediaWiki) was also a part of that project. I wonder, whether one would want to gather a huge amount of Sematic triples to improve "the reasoning" of Cyc. Halo also has extension for ACL's now, though I haven't checked it, yet (my environments are not so restrictive). Dmitriy
Ryan Lane schrieb:
Wikimedia uses confluence too (https://confluence.toolserver.org/pages/listpages-dirview.action?key=main). I found that funny when that was posted in another thread :).
It's deprecated and will be taken down soon. the information from confluence has been migrated to the main toolserver wiki.
As a case in point, the reason for using it was indeed access restrictions - and the fact that we got a license for free. I turned out to be combersome to have info spread across two wikis (with different syntax), and people didn't like to use it, because, well, we are all used to mediawiki.
We found that namespace-based access restrictions (implemented using the Lockdown extension) are sufficient for our needs.
-- daniel
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