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Put MediaWiki to Work for You

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the howtos-and-other-meme dept.

NewsForge (Also owned by VA) is running a short writeup on how to put MediaWiki to work for your organization. The writeup includes several addition tools that could be helpful in rounding out the overall package. From the article: " Imagine how useful it would be to have an online knowledge base that can easily be updated created by key people within your organization. That's the promise of a wiki -- a Web application that 'allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily,' as Wikipedia, perhaps the best-known wiki, puts it. Why not bring the benefits of a wiki to your organization?"

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  1. Semantic MediaWiki by GerardM · · Score: 2, Informative

    When the public for a MediaWiki installation is not too big, a must have extra is the Semantic MediaWiki. It really helps in making content rich and when using it in an environment for more organisational knowledge sharing, it is one of the best extras you can find. Thanks, GerardM

  2. Extensibility of MediaWiki by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative
    MediaWiki may be fine, until you decide you want to extend it or maintain it. Take a look at the code! Spaghetti PHP mixed with spaghetti HTML mixed with spaghetti SQL, spread in an even layer everywhere throughout the system.

    Don't expect to be able to extend or modify it easily. I've come to the conclusion that it would be easier to reimplement it than to modify it.

  3. How to compare Wikis by wehe · · Score: 4, Informative

    There are many different Wikis available. All with different pros and cons. To compare them all is the aim of the WikiMatrix project. If you are not sure which Wiki is best for you, WikiMatrix offers a Wiki choice wizard.

  4. Re:What's going on here...? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The tag, I believe, merely causes a chunk of text to be highlighted as if it were in a PHP editor, '''NOT''' execute it.

  5. Re:Wiki works by Hewligan · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... but for some odd reason not one product written for zope/plone is nearly as good as products written in php/perl/ruby. Anybody know why that is?

    Because writing an entirely new content management system is actually easier than figuring out how to use the mess that is Zope/Plone.

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  6. Wikis in Enterprises by avatar-99 · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can find information and a survey (in German!) about Wikis in Enterprises here: http://wikipedistik.de/umfrage/

    Hopefully this information will be translated to english in the next 1-3 days.

  7. (Semantic) MediaWiki on XAMPPLITE is easy by spage · · Score: 2, Informative

    To start hacking on the awesome Semantic MediaWiki extensions, I downloaded XAMPPLITE (MySQL, PHP, Apache, and phpMyAdmin all nicely bundled for Windows) and the MediaWiki source. I had it up and running on Windows XP in 10 minutes!

    For PHP development, I downloaded Eclipse and the PHPEclipse extension. I already had Cygwin and Vim installed, but I don't think you need them.

    I've also used TWiki at work. The benefit of MediaWiki is the users' familiarity with Wikipedia.

    Semantic MediaWiki adds attributes to articles (e.g. [[telephone:=555-1234]] ) and typed relations between articles (e.g. [[works for::Joe_Smith]] that you can query. So you can get information from articles without reading each one. Amazing stuff.

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  8. Re:Crap by hunterx11 · · Score: 2, Informative
    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Access

    You may personally dislike MediaWiki and Wikimedia, and that's fine, but it's no substitute for facts.

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    English is easier said than done.