[Mediawiki-l] calendaring and scheduling with MediaWiki

[Markus Krötzsch]

On Monday 04 December 2006 18:51, cohesion wrote:
> On 12/4/06, Markus Krötzsch  wrote:
> > > You might try semantic mediawiki extension
> > > (http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Main_Page). It's not super simple, and I
> > > also agree with Kasimir, google apps for your domain would be the
> > > easiest if you want a calendar. I played around with semantic
> > > mediawiki for this purpose though, it works, but it's certainly not
> > > simple for people who don't like computers.
> >
> > Which I fear is a problem for MediaWiki in general ... Anyway,
> > suggestions to further simplify Semantic MediaWiki are always welcome. Or
> > maybe we need to improve the documentation?
> >
> > -- Markus
>
> No, I think it does a good job doing what its main design is, saying
> something like this article subject was "born in" some date etc. But
> using it instead of a Lotus Notes/Outlook/Google calendars would be
> rough for non-tech people. I don't really think it should try harder
> to be those apps though, its not. It is actually flexible enough to
> use in that way though, if you need to, but I wouldn't want it to be
> the use-case that I was hoping would switch people to liking wikis.
>
> :D
>
> If you're hoping to convert people, use mediawiki for procedures and
> documentation, that's way easier than calendaring :)

I fully agree :-)

-- Markus

>
> Judson

-- 
Markus Krötzsch
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