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: The main reason we chose Confluence was lack of > Totally agreed. > > I (along with a few other hardy volunteers) have been helping MW users > at [[mw:Project:Support desk]] and it seems clear that the focus most > developers have on the WMF use case has really made MW less usable for > other people. > > One of my clients had an older (1.11) MediaWiki installation that they > are using to share information with their distributors world-wide. > Their first attempt to get the system to do what they wanted was a flop > since the Java developer they had working on the system really didn't > know that much about MW. I was able to get the system upgraded to 1.19 > and adapt MW to their infrastructure using hooks, ResourceLoader, and > pages they could update in the "MediaWiki" namespace. > > So, yes, I think MediaWiki has a lot to offer corporate users, but we > haven't really made that clear or shown them how to do a lot of things > they want to do. > > Tim has it right when he says MediaWiki "needs community management, so > that the features needed by corporate users will be discoverable and > well-maintained, rather than developed privately, over and over." > > We've discussed this sort of thing over and over, but I think we're > actually beginning to make some headway now thanks especially to work by > Mariya Miteva. > > > -- > http://hexmode.com/ > > There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. > -- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War" > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
