* Ashar Voultoiz <[email protected]> [Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:08:23 +0100]: > On 01/01/11 16:06, David Gerard wrote: > > Because MediaWiki is very little work. And we like to be treated like > > heroes every now and then. > MediaWiki is not a little work. Not everybody can set up a farm with it's own (not WMF's) shared repository "commons" (I am especially speaking of pre-instant commons era, where you had to alter many global settings). Not everybody can have a path-based farm, instead of DNS-based one. Even memorizing these wg* globals is a large work. 99% of users do not even know that one might add JS-scripts to MediaWiki namespace.
There's been done everything at my primary work to undermine my MediaWiki deployment efforts - that it "easily can be installed via the linux package - so why he is installing that manually", "markup is primitive", "inflexible", "PHP is inferior language, use ASP.NET instead" and so on. > This is my exact experience. And I have been a "hero" for 4 years in my > current company. Almost all department now have a MediaWiki > installation and nobody complained about the lack of ACL or WYSIWTF :b > BTW, there's HaloACL nowadays, although I haven't deployed it yet. Unfortunately my own experience with earning on MediaWiki is not so bright - perhaps because this is a third world country. > The main issues users encountered were : > - installing the parserfunction > - getting the wikipedia look'n feel (just add some CSS) > - single sign on (install Ryan Lane LDAP authentication) > Yes, that is simple. However not everything is simple and sometimes you have to write your own extension. For example, there was no flexible poll extensions some years ago. Dmitriy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
