[Mediawiki-l] Looking for MW Business Users

[Gary Kirk]

To answer the original question - there is indeed a private list for
businesses and developers wishing to discuss MediaWiki in enterprise
with a view to actually contributing time and or money to such efforts
- I believe. It may be mediawiki-enterprise-l but I don't know;
contact Erik Möller for details.

On 29/06/07, Jack Eapen C <jackec at suntecgroup.com> wrote:
>
> 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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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dave
> Sigafoos
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 12:48 AM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
> [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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Gary Kirk