User talk:Barrylb/Using MediaWiki for your corporate wiki

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Definitely a growing trend and an interesting one.

The thing I struggle most with is where do you draw the line between a rigid Document Management System with strict workflow controls or formatted data types and a system like Mediawiki based mostly on completely open, wikitext editing.

Right now I feel like I need a mashup of both systems and am caught up a bit on this point.

Blckdmnd99 19:39, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The interesting thing is that a lot of people say that the whole Wikipedia idea is flawed because it doesn't have strict workflow controls or data types either... but it seems to have had some success so perhaps businesses could try this model and see if it works. Who knows.. I am still discovering a lot about how to do things differently in the MediaWiki environment and working out how to convert applications that were using SQL and highly structured database tables into the wiki model. I've just installed the Semantic MediaWiki extension and it seems quite useful. -- Barrylb 19:55, 17 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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