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| − | We're going to start a series of showcase articles on outstanding wikis, while making the case for MediaWiki and QualityBox. Meanwhile, we'll start off with this anti-case: https://neosmart.net/wiki/ People have come to associate 'wiki' with 'Knowledge Base'. Unfortunately, this 'wiki' is running on WordPress - which just isn't suited for the task at hand. While I applaud NeoSmart for offering up a vast collection of knowledge, you can instantly see how being constrained to structuring 'documents' by some hierarchy or tagging scheme alone is just not enough. | + | There are [[mw:Sites_using_MediaWiki|lists of wikis]], but this is not that. We're going to start a series of showcase articles on outstanding wikis, while making the case for MediaWiki and [https://QualityBox.us QualityBox]. Since we're focused on '''Enterprise Wikis''', we're not going to be covering any of the WikiMedia Foundation wiki projects<ref>Some stats on WMF wikis</ref>. Meanwhile, we'll start off with this anti-case: https://neosmart.net/wiki/ People have come to associate 'wiki' with 'Knowledge Base'. Unfortunately, this 'wiki' is running on WordPress - which just isn't suited for the task at hand. While I applaud NeoSmart for offering up a vast collection of knowledge, you can instantly see how being constrained to structuring 'documents' by some hierarchy or tagging scheme alone is just not enough. |
== Uses == | == Uses == | ||
What can you use MediaWiki for? [[wp:Possible uses of MediaWiki]] | What can you use MediaWiki for? [[wp:Possible uses of MediaWiki]] | ||
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| + | == Showcase == | ||
| + | We'll be adding forms and layouts to make this whole section much more robust... but we'll just cite a couple (of the thousands of) wikis here now. If you know of a wiki that should be in our showcase, please get a free 'wiki report' so it gets added to our database, and be sure to add your email address so we know who to interview. | ||
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| + | [https://ceopedia.org/index.php/Special:Statistics CEO pedia] should be a site with a huge following. But, like all things on the Internet, it doesn't come close to the popularity of [http://www.boobpedia.com/boobs/Special:Statistics Boob pedia] (NSFW) | ||
[[Category:Wiki]] | [[Category:Wiki]] | ||
Revision as of 21:45, 3 May 2018
There are lists of wikis, but this is not that. We're going to start a series of showcase articles on outstanding wikis, while making the case for MediaWiki and QualityBox. Since we're focused on Enterprise Wikis, we're not going to be covering any of the WikiMedia Foundation wiki projects[1]. Meanwhile, we'll start off with this anti-case: https://neosmart.net/wiki/ People have come to associate 'wiki' with 'Knowledge Base'. Unfortunately, this 'wiki' is running on WordPress - which just isn't suited for the task at hand. While I applaud NeoSmart for offering up a vast collection of knowledge, you can instantly see how being constrained to structuring 'documents' by some hierarchy or tagging scheme alone is just not enough.
Uses[edit | edit source]
What can you use MediaWiki for? wp:Possible uses of MediaWiki
Showcase[edit | edit source]
We'll be adding forms and layouts to make this whole section much more robust... but we'll just cite a couple (of the thousands of) wikis here now. If you know of a wiki that should be in our showcase, please get a free 'wiki report' so it gets added to our database, and be sure to add your email address so we know who to interview.
CEO pedia should be a site with a huge following. But, like all things on the Internet, it doesn't come close to the popularity of Boob pedia (NSFW)
- ↑ Some stats on WMF wikis
