Great article by LifeHacker that explains how to Customize a MediaWiki installation in such a way that it will be used as a Collaborative Web Site. I would like to implement this in an Intranet. I think that would be interesting!
Check it at: http://lifehacker.com/5396832/customize-mediawiki-into-your-ultimate-collaborative-web-site
I have had a fair share of hands-on time with wikis. With that said, I’ve come to a conclusion — MediaWiki inhibits Enterprise 2.0.
I'm with Gil on this. I recognise that MediaWiki *never* claimed to be an enterprise social computing tool and that in many instances it was the bridgehead that introduced wikis inside the firewall, but it isn't really fit for enterprise purposes beyond a very narrow use case. Gil goes on to describe four inhibitors: No rich text editor, no fine grained access control, no document management and no additional collaboration features.
The MediaWiki page counter for my Brede Wiki now tells me that it has passed the 1000 "total pages" mark. Pages include, e.g., comments with data on scientific articles, pages for brain regions and pages for "topics" such as neuroticism. The Brede Wiki is presently open for anonymous edits and wiki spammers are quite interested in the article on Hidehiko Takahashi. I wonder if they are communicating something via the cryptic comment fields. Disregarding the spammers the article on Richard S. J. Frackowiak seems to be the most popular article after posterior cingulate gyrus.
As an early Mediawiki user and evangelist I will only write about Mediawiki as a CMS.
Nowadays Content Management System refers mainly to Database Management System and Mediawiki stores the content of the wiki in a database. This storage is as easy as writing freely in "edit" mode and save. You can use or not some mediawiki markups to improve presentation of the text (bold, italic...) and link one page with another or refer to an external website.
2- Report (Printout) : every query could be reported or print out in a customized format. This is a hugh and valuable improvement to compare with the result SEARCH page of standard Mediawiki.
i wish wordpress tags had support for pseudonyms, aliases, etc kind of like how mediawiki can for pages.
Formats text following the MediaWiki (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing) syntax.
To return HTML from Wiki:
from wikimarkup import parse
parse(text[, show_toc=True])To return HTML without certain "annoying" elements, such as headings:
from wikimarkup import parselite
parselite(text)
ふーむ。
Vor ein paar Wochen hatten wir Besuch von Tim Pritlove, dem Macher des Chaosradios. Mit einer Sackkarre voller Audio-Technik belegte er unser Wohnzimmer und die Steckerleisten, und ausgestattet mit zwei beeindruckenden Headsets und zwei frischgebrühten Milchkaffees tauschten wir uns über anderthalb Stunden zum Thema MediaWiki aus.
Fast zeitgleich und sehr passend ;-) zu dem Launch meiner neuen Website mediawiki-beratung.de ist heute die aktuelle Ausgabe des Chaosradio-Express-Podcasts live gegangen.(Raymond)
* All web2.0 and specifically Wikis need so much good sourcing
- JFA
* Post YOUR comments and tips...
How to Cite Sources
The purpose for citing is to let readers know that a specific piece of
information you're providing has a source, other than your own
observation or reasoning. In many cases, the strength and credibility
of your work depends on the validity of your sources, as well as your
ability to represent those sources clearly without plagiarizing. Even
if you fail to cite a source, or cite improperly, without meaning to
do so, the consequences can be just as dire as if you did it on
purpose, especially in academic and professional settings.
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http://www.wikihow.com/Cite-Sources
* Be true on social networking... in plain true
Be true or you will go nowhere...
- JFA
* Post YOUR comments...
Eine gute Woche. Eben die Pressemitteilung der Foundation gelesen: Die Stanton Foundation, benannt nach dem CBS-Chef Fank Stanton, spendet 890.000 US-$ mit dem Zweck, die Benutzeroberfläche von Wikipedia für Neuautoren einfacher/zugänglicher zu machen. Ich bin begeistert - wer nämlich einmal außerhalb unseres sehr kleinen WP-Universums versucht hat, einem Newbie die Benutzung eines Wikis zu erklären, weiß, daß wir uns das mit dem "Wiki-wiki-ist-alles-doch-ganz-einfach" nur einbilden. Das war vielleicht 2003 mal so, ist jedoch lange Vergangenheit. Die Wikipedia-Oberfläche ist insgesamt unglaublich kompliziert geworden, wir haben uns eben nur daran gewöhnt.
Ideen, wie man sowas machen könnte, gehen mir schon lange durch den Kopf:
Denn: es geht ja nicht nur ums Finden von Lösungen, sondern auch um die Akzeptanz unter den „Alt“-Benutzern, die jede noch so geringe Veränderung an „ihrem“ Interface seitenweise diskutieren müssen...
(elya)
