MediaWiki & Wiki robchurch on 01 Aug 2009 04:02 pm
MediaWiki in the workplace; a data point
Yesterday, I was pleased to have the opportunity to discuss a company’s internal use of MediaWiki in some depth. Although no longer actively involved, I do still take an interest in how people proceed with developing things – once they wipe the introductory text off the main page, where a wiki goes is completely up to them. It’s becoming pretty clear that a lot of companies see the benefits of using a wiki for internal documentation/communications – the ease of contribution and the freedom to structure as you please are, I think, two major factors in play here.
It seems to me that this particular organisation is generally very pleased with what MediaWiki offers them, and with the concept in general. Interestingly, they’ve managed to get pretty much 100% buy-in from all employees, which some companies would probably think of as a holy grail – getting people to work with the wiki is often a major problem in setting one up.
Better people than I have written extensively on the subject of enterprise wiki deployment. Nevertheless, I figured I’d share this. There’s also something pretty weird about seeing, first hand, a commercial enterprise using a piece of software you’ve contributed to.
on 01 Aug 2009 at 7:14 pm 1.GerardM said …
Hoi,
Good to hear from you, are you doing well ?? … Is it already two years ago ??
Weird.
Thanks,
GerardM
on 01 Aug 2009 at 9:32 pm 2.Andrew Garrett said …
Hi Rob,
We were talking about you today at the Cambridge meetup (yes, I’m in London now). Hope you’re doing well.
Andrew/Werdna
on 02 Aug 2009 at 1:22 pm 3.robchurch said …
I’m doing great, thanks, guys. It’s definitely been a while.
on 07 Aug 2009 at 6:25 pm 4.Siebrand said …
Hey Rob. Replied a little late because of holidays, but I was happily surprised so see a sign of life from your side on Planet Wikimedia. Hope you are doing well. Cheers!