MediaWiki limits Enterprise 2.0. - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 Oct 09
  

  Driessen Samuel

  wiki enterprise2.0 adoption

• 28 Sep 09
  

  Graham Perrin

  MediaWiki interoperability critique 2009

  • MediaWiki limits Enterprise 2.0
  • by Gil Yehuda
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  • • September 25, 2009
    • MediaWiki inhibits Enterprise 2.0
    • Wiki Markup. Editing a page on a mediawiki feels like travelling back in time to the mid 80s
    • get a WYSIWYG plug-in, but they don’t work right
    • participation dynamics
    • Wiki-markup is a big barrier
    • avoid tables
    • Wiki-markup inhibits the contributions
    • There are better tools
    • Only open.
    • Every attempt I have seen to secure pages is easily foiled
    • One of the architects of MediaWiki told my programmer at Fidelity that it is simply not designed for the kind of security we wanted
    • Document silo.
    • mess up your document management processes
    • Collaboration dead-end.
    • unimpressive
    • MediaWiki content suddenly becomes an island
    • little ability to integrate
    • specific points are 100% correct
    • markup is an enormous barrier
    • no real flexibility in user permissions
    • quickly becomes a messy document silo
    • MediaWiki wasn’t created to be anything except a venue for public collaboration
    • ostensible “wiki” functionality that is crudely slapped onto SharePoint 2007 is so bad
    • really valuable wikis
    • Many case studies on this — including those in the State Department, Defense Department, Financial Services, Semiconductors, and other industries
    • Now these groups want to step into “more than just a wiki”
    • don’t know what to do with their MediaWiki-based, successful, wiki
    • when I ran into the “but we have an Enterprise Wiki on MediaWiki, so how would that work with the…platform” conversation recently — I just thought “uggh”
    • tools that currently exist (take the Jive SBS text editor or Confluence Rich Text editor) that promise rich text editing are so buggy
    • nearly unusable
    • you are right about how it doesn’t work in an Enterprise
    • no one can be expected to learn
    • The occasional employee will be much happier with a rich text editor that is simple, clean, and works.
    • just see an edit button where they need to edit
    • the rest comes naturally
    • most people in the enterprise just want to get their work done
• 27 Sep 09
  

  Emanuele Quintarelli

  mediawiki enterprise wikis enterprise 2.0 gil yehuda products adoption 2009

• 26 Sep 09
  

  Miguel Membrado

  Finally, somebody noticed it!

  wiki mediawiki enterprise2.0

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