Put MediaWiki to Work for You 171
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?"
Semantic MediaWiki (Score:3, Informative)
Extensibility of MediaWiki (Score:4, Informative)
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.
How to compare Wikis (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What's going on here...? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Wiki works (Score:3, Informative)
Because writing an entirely new content management system is actually easier than figuring out how to use the mess that is Zope/Plone.
Wikis in Enterprises (Score:2, Informative)
Hopefully this information will be translated to english in the next 1-3 days.
(Semantic) MediaWiki on XAMPPLITE is easy (Score:2, Informative)
To start hacking on the awesome Semantic MediaWiki extensions [ontoworld.org], 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.
Re:Crap (Score:3, Informative)
You may personally dislike MediaWiki and Wikimedia, and that's fine, but it's no substitute for facts.