[Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
(Added MW-Enterprise mailing list) 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.

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
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,

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread Dan Andreescu
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread Maria Miteva
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

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread David Gerard
On 7 February 2013 17:06, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: 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): The main reasons we chose Confluence: * An easier

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread OQ
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:45 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: (In my current job I'm happily spreading MediaWikis far and wide, albeit with very little customisation. But I'm really keen to use the Visual Editor as soon as it's in a tarball version.) Yes, that is the prime reason

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread Thomas Gries
Yes, that is the prime reason we're still on 1.17 at work, it's the most recent version the FCKEditor extension works on. @Admins who use FCKEditor: please be reminded that be reminded, that FCKEditor has severe security issues. ___ Wikitech-l

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread OQ
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: @Admins who use FCKEditor: please be reminded that be reminded, that FCKEditor has severe security issues. Yes, but as I mentioned until there is a suitable replacement, your choices are: run an insecure wiki, not use

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread Thomas Gries
Am 07.02.2013 21:46, schrieb OQ: On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Gries m...@tgries.de wrote: @Admins who use FCKEditor: please be reminded that be reminded, that FCKEditor has severe security issues. Yes, but as I mentioned until there is a suitable replacement, your choices are: run

Re: [Wikitech-l] How can we help Corporations use MW? (Was Re: Comparisons to Confluence)

2013-02-07 Thread Quim Gil
On 02/07/2013 08:17 AM, Mark A. Hershberger wrote: (Added MW-Enterprise mailing list) 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