Our successful, corporate MediaWiki site has been written up in various places.
Here's one article:
http://www.northeastexecutive.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=110Itemid=198
and one book (we are one of the major case studies):
I have given out many a wiki in my organization and want to echo Dan's point
that wikis do not do all the work alone. You cannot put one up and expect it
to self-organize all the information put into it, nor expect people, on their
own, to put in the proper information and follow directions on
Thanks Dan! That's exactly sort of stuff that I have been looking for.
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On 17 October 2010 03:20, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote:
On the followup question - yes. You need to have the landing pad
main page visible to anyone, but you can create a group memberships
structure with a custom group that keeps anyone from accessing content
unless you
OK - I'm pretty non-tech. What IS the htaccess file all about?
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From: David Gerard dger...@gmail.com
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:23:04 +0100
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Benefits of using wiki
reasonably common within organizations I've been at, though some have
used Twiki or Plone or another one instead of MediaWiki. I advocate
for it, and prefer using MediaWiki.
Just to give more clarity:
I am more looking for benefits of wiki in general and not which tools
to use because if we
TechGeek,
I think you'll find the answer to this question of benefits of a wiki, in
the non-technical advice given by George:
Some good resources:
Shirky's Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus books, Tapscott and
Williams Wikinomics book and the many magazine and web articles that came
On 17 October 2010 17:30, Steve VanSlyck s.vansl...@spamcop.net wrote:
OK - I'm pretty non-tech. What IS the htaccess file all about?
I meant .htpasswd:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.htpasswd
It puts a password on accessing a page (or site) at all. Then once
you've put in that password, you
I have a follow-up question or related question... can you use mediawiki to
setup a private wiki that would exist on the web? I have in mind something
for a non-profit... They wouldn't have the funds to pay for virtual private
hosting or anything... so this may not be the thing to use. I just
On the followup question - yes. You need to have the landing pad
main page visible to anyone, but you can create a group memberships
structure with a custom group that keeps anyone from accessing content
unless you approve them. That isn't super-secure, but gets you
reasonably far towards a
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