Hi Dan,

We have
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Third-party_MediaWiki_users_discussion where
we've been discussing some MW user issues, but the dicussion was not
focused on corporate per se. We can use the same page or maybe set up a
subpage if you think it will be easier. There is also
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Enterprise_hub. If anyone know of another
appropriate place, please share.

I would be glad to see such a space set up and discussion going on and
would be happy to assist with that.

Mariya

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>wrote:

> Sorry about that - Gmail reload glitch
>
> 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
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