[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki sample implementation as document repository

[Yost, Greg]

My company intended to you MediaWiki basically for content management.
Because of the inherent difficulties in that, it has become more of a
navigation tool and the content is stored elsewhere.  

They like the wiki idea and are trying to figure out other uses for it.


Does anoyone know if there is there another wiki which is better suited
for content management?

Thanks
 

-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
Barrett
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:49 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki sample implementation as document
repository

MediaWiki is a fantastic wiki, but it is TERRIBLE for document
management.

In a real document management system, here is how you edit a document:

1. Click the document, locking it from edits by other users 2. Edit it
3. Save it

It's that simple. In MediaWiki, it looks like this, EVERY time you need
to edit:

1. Download the document to your PC.
2. Edit it.
3. Save it.
4. Browse to the MediaWiki upload page
5. Upload it, using the same File:xxxxx name as the original document
(assuming you remember it) 6. Panic, when you realize someone else
uploaded the same document a few minutes before you did, and you just
wiped out their changes without realizing.

MediaWiki is not a content management system.  It's just an amazing
wiki.

DanB


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