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On 02/06/2013 10:00 PM, Tim Starling wrote:
For corporate adoption, the main thing MediaWiki needs is not some
particular feature. It needs to be supported. It needs an organisation with people who will care if corporate users are screwed over by a change. It needs community management, so that the features needed by corporate users will be discoverable and well-maintained, rather than developed privately, over and over. And it needs the smallest nudge of promotion, on top of what Wikipedia fans are doing for it. Say, a nice-looking website aimed at this user base.
I was on the other side of this, albeit a while back. We had to decide between MediaWiki and Confluence to power Disney's ParentPedia (which has since been abandoned):
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/13/disney_eisner/ http://family.go.com/parenting/
The main reasons we chose Confluence:
* An easier to understand API. This seems to not be a problem any more: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code * Easier setup on Windows: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows, possibly made easier now by Bitnami: http://bitnami.org/stack/mediawiki
Do we have a place where people can talk through problems with corporate adoption? I suspect Tim's correct about the general case but that focusing on specifics would drive adoption.
Dan