Thanks. I finally told him to look specifically for document management software :(
-- Ivan Lanin On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Daniel Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
