I suggest looking at open source Enterprise Content Management applications. One that's designed to work well with MediaWiki is Alfresco, www.alfresco.com.
Another similar option is O3Spaces, designed to complement OpenOffice originally, but just as good as a general purpose ECM: www.o3spaces.com -Ben On Apr 16, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Yost, Greg wrote: > My company intended to you MediaWiki basically for content management. > Because of the inherent difficulties in that, it has become more of a > navigation tool and the content is stored elsewhere. > > They like the wiki idea and are trying to figure out other uses for > it. > > > Does anoyone know if there is there another wiki which is better > suited > for content management? > > Thanks > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel > Barrett > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:49 PM > To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki sample implementation as document > repository > > MediaWiki is a fantastic wiki, but it is TERRIBLE for document > management. > > In a real document management system, here is how you edit a document: > > 1. Click the document, locking it from edits by other users 2. Edit it > 3. Save it > > It's that simple. In MediaWiki, it looks like this, EVERY time you > need > to edit: > > 1. Download the document to your PC. > 2. Edit it. > 3. Save it. > 4. Browse to the MediaWiki upload page > 5. Upload it, using the same File:xxxxx name as the original document > (assuming you remember it) 6. Panic, when you realize someone else > uploaded the same document a few minutes before you did, and you just > wiped out their changes without realizing. > > MediaWiki is not a content management system. It's just an amazing > wiki. > > DanB > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > ********************************************************************** > The information contained in this email is confidential and/or > legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended > recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, > disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this > communication, > or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received > this > communication in error, please contact the sender by > reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you. > > This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by > MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. > > www.clearswift.com > ********************************************************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l Benjamin Horst [email protected] 646-464-2314 (Eastern) www.solidoffice.com _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
