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[ReadWriteWeb] WYSIWYG editors are already available for MediaWiki through extensions, but the potential for corrupting the data that makes up Wikipedia's encyclopedic content is very real. Avoiding that scenario is primarily what lead the Initiative to discount a switch to WYSIWYG, at least within the scope of the project.

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[ryandlane.com] Must have and promising extensions for a corporate MediaWiki instance: People inside a corporate environment expect certain things that (most) public wikis simply don’t have to worry about. These things include single sign on/integrated authentication, WYSIWYG editing, search that finds more than just wiki pages, formalized input, document versioning (draft, stable, published, etc.), document importing, and document exporting.

[Web 2.0 Promotions] Can $890000 Make MediaWiki Useful?: Despite its quirks, a href=”http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Sites_using_MediaWiki/corporate”organizations like Intel/a have maintained large and productive installations of MediaWiki for years. /ppThe Usability Initiative’s core goal is ...

[Yaron is Writing] Resolving MediaWiki and SMW weaknesses: discussion forums: I think that this helps fix a hole in MediaWiki, though: I wrote before that I thought one of the top weaknesses of MediaWiki compared to competing systems was “lack of guidance from the interface about how administrators should accomplish their tasks”. Other applications have wizards, control panels and the like for helping administrators do their daily tasks, but when you first set up MediaWiki, there’s nothing looking back at you but a blank main page, and lots of pages of documentation elsewhere.

[Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog] Your Guide to Wikipedia Tools & Resources: Since its launch in 2001, the global army of passionate and dedicated Wikipedians have created close to 3 million articles on the English version of Wikipedia encyclopedia alone. Britannica Encyclopedia has about about half a million topics only though it has been around since 1768.

[Uploads from matthewsim] WYSIWYG Wiki is Coming: matthewsim posted a photo: WYSIWYG Wiki is Coming We're finally seeing a viable rich editor for MediaWiki emerge. Wikia, the commercial venture of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is beta testing a WYSIWYG editor.

[Matthew J. Simoneau's Weblog] WYSIWYG Wiki is Coming: WYSIWYG Wiki is Coming We’re finally seeing a viable rich editor for MediaWiki emerge. Wikia, the commercial venture of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, is beta testing a WYSIWYG editor.

[Creating User Interfaces] MediaWiki: It is written in the PHP programming language, and can use either the MySQL or PostgreSQL relational database management system.It is also distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License while its documentation is released under the GFDL and partly in the public domain, making it free and open source software.

[Movie News, Reviews, Bollywood, Tollywood everything all together] Your Guide to Wikipedia Tools & Resources: Since a launch in 2001, a tellurian armed forces of ardent as well as dedicated Wikipedians have combined tighten to 3 million articles upon a English chronicle of Wikipedia thesaurus alone. Britannica Encyclopedia has about about half a million topics usually yet it has been around given 1768.

[Projekt Management Beratung] Enterprise Wikis - Welche Software ist geeignet? « Projekt ...: Bei der Sicherheit war für mich das Problem, dass MediaWiki pauschal alle Zugriffe zulässt und die Schaffung geschlossener Bereiche für bestimmte Nutzergruppen zu aufwendig zu prüfen ist. Insgesamt zwar ein guter Wiki, aber nicht für Unternehmen gedacht und vor allem von der Administration her zu aufwendig.

[CoPress Blog] Wiki software comparison for newspapers | CoPress: I’m a big fan of wikis and think that the format has a lot to offer journalism. MediaWiki seems like the most full-featured offering out there, but it would be great if it could be more closely integrated with WordPress (most specifically in creating topical landing pages that were one part wiki article and one part list of the most recent/highest voted articles on the topic).

[Nuketown - Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Geekdom] Building a Campaign Web Site: Blog vs. Wiki: The story is the thing, and the reverse chronological order of the blog helps people keep up with the story. It can also make catching up with the story a challenge (as you have to dig through the archives to find the earliest posts) but that can be dealt with by maintaining a story page that lists entries chronologically.  It’s easy enough to slide in campaign news updates (requests for new players, notes about new products, etc.) as well as the occasional informational page about major player characters and NPCs.

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[RichmondWiki Project Blog] May 2009 Site Stats: Traffic to the Richmond Wiki slowed considerably in May (total visits down 50% from previous 31-day period) for two primary reasons:

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