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 >> > 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 (which has since been abandoned): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/13/disney_eisner/ http://family.go.com/parenting/ The main reasons we chose Confluence: * An easier to understand API. This seems to not be a problem any more: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code * Easier setup on Windows: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Running_MediaWiki_on_Windows, possibly made easier now by Bitnami: http://bitnami.org/stack/mediawiki Do we have a place where people can talk through problems with corporate adoption? I suspect Tim's correct about the general case but that focusing on specifics would drive adoption. Dan _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
