2009/4/28 McHale, Nina <[email protected]>: > Hey, all, > > Some of my colleagues are objecting to my desire to minimize uploading of > Word documents to our new intranet wiki. My main objection to it is that we > ought to be entering information into wiki pages so that we can take full > advantage of document versioning, talk pages, watching, etc.-y'know, the > stuff that makes it a wiki... > > I've been called "silly" and "arbitrary" regarding this. :) I'm not outright > forbidding posting Word documents; I'm just trying to get people to use the > wiki the way it's mean to be used. Am I being unreasonable? I even stated > that it's acceptable to load the final version of a 20-page report, or a form > that's meant to be printed out and filled out by hand-i.e., things in a final > state that do not need further editing. > > Has anyone else encountered this resistance? I was most surprised that it > came from someone who uses/edits Wikipedia, which, >as far as I can tell, > does not support uploading of Word docs.
Don't make your practices fit the tool, choose your tool to fit what you need. If people want a central repository for Word documents, MediaWiki isn't the thing to use. There are plenty of CVSs, etc. that can handle document versioning, watching, etc. You need to come to a consensus on what you want out of your IT systems and then choose a tool which achieves that. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
