[Mediawiki-l] Looking for MW Business Users

[Jack Eapen C]

I hope (and I can only hope) somebody will come up with features that
make MW a natural choice in business wikis as well. As Dave pointed out,
an inbuilt WYSWYG editor is everyone's dream. Other than that, I think a
wiki administrator would like to have built in features in MW as:

Different authentication mechanisms like LDAP, NTLM
UI for creating users, groups and assigning users to groups
UI for creating categories and assigning categories to articles
UI-based access control mechanism based on article categories/user
groups and usernames
Review mechanism if needed
Rating of articles


Regards,
 
Jack
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dave
Sigafoos
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 12:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Looking for MW Business Users

My thoughts are these ..

First, none of this is looking for a replacement to MW site.  This has
been a great source of information.  I just recognize that there might
be a bit much chatter on the MW site about things that they don't really
care about.  Anything the comes about from this type of source *must be*
shared with MW as far as I am concerned.

a location where problems that have come up trying to do 'business'
things with MW are addressed.  As mentioned in my original post, these
are things that will probably never fit into the MW/WP world.  As you
mentioned 'access restriction', different reporting/special pages.
Processes that 'implementors' (probably better than business?) might
need that WikiWorld wont.

The wiki is a great way of sharing information.  But sometimes
businesses need a little more than just 'editing' and viewing.  One
example would be the BoilerplateSelection extension I did.  We have
various formatted documents (currently formatted in 'word') that we want
to use.  This extension allows auto-seed depending on article name.
This works well for us (could be modified for various uses).

a location where people can 'team' to work out a specific problem.  A
WYSIWYG editor might be an example.  Although not everyone wants one of
these, if there are some developers who would help out on something like
this it would be great.  Not all of us have all the knowledge of MW to
develop something this complex but I am sure the knowledge is out there

I am sure that there are other examples that can be thought of that
something like this might work for.

The trick would be to keep the MW core developers involved with these
ideas as their knowledge is crucial to get any of these things working.
But letting them be distant enough that they aren't 'expected' to answer
questions.




DSig
David Tod Sigafoos | SANMAR Corporation



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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Frederik
Dohr
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:52
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Looking for MW Business Users

> At one time I thought I had read that there was a group of MW users
who
> were getting together to discuss more 'business' needs in wiki.

Well, I remember having been involved in this:
     http://wikis.wikia.com/wiki/Wiki_sales_pitch
But that's not exactly what you're looking for.
There's also Enterprise Wikimania, hosted by Socialtext:
     http://www.eu.socialtext.net/ewikimania/index.cgi
Though that's pretty much dead as far as I can tell (and it's obviously 
not focused on the MediaWiki engine either)...

> Is there a better place to put up questions discussing possible
> extensions that would probably never be used in WP worlds but would be
> better aimed at usage by business.
> Is there interest in such?

I would certainly be interested in that, but I'm not sure whether or how

I could contribute...

What kind of topics - other than the obvious access restrictions - are 
you thinking of?


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