Comments on: Spotlight on London’s Wiki Wednesday – Attitudes Towards Sharepoint http://www.sharingatwork.com/2008/10/spotlight-on-londons-wiki-wednesday/ Better business through collaboration and technology Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:23:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Daniel J. Pritchett http://www.sharingatwork.com/2008/10/spotlight-on-londons-wiki-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Daniel J. Pritchett Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:17:55 +0000 http://sharingatwork.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/spotlight-on-londons-wiki-wednesday-attitudes-towards-sharepoint/#comment-133 Quite right! I was pretty excited about setting up a MediaWiki server for testing at the office but I've mostly abandoned that project because our Sharepoint server has a limited wiki functionality.<br><br>I got the impression that MediaWiki's MySQL backend would be a tough sell to our IT department and Sharepoint would be easy to get approved. Now I'm left to figure out how to customize/enhance Sharepoint's wiki to provide more features than it does out of the box. Quite right! I was pretty excited about setting up a MediaWiki server for testing at the office but I've mostly abandoned that project because our Sharepoint server has a limited wiki functionality.

I got the impression that MediaWiki's MySQL backend would be a tough sell to our IT department and Sharepoint would be easy to get approved. Now I'm left to figure out how to customize/enhance Sharepoint's wiki to provide more features than it does out of the box.

]]> By: Daniel J. Pritchett http://www.sharingatwork.com/2008/10/spotlight-on-londons-wiki-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Daniel J. Pritchett Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:17:55 +0000 http://sharingatwork.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/spotlight-on-londons-wiki-wednesday-attitudes-towards-sharepoint/#comment-100 Quite right! I was pretty excited about setting up a MediaWiki server for testing at the office but I've mostly abandoned that project because our Sharepoint server has a limited wiki functionality.<br><br>I got the impression that MediaWiki's MySQL backend would be a tough sell to our IT department and Sharepoint would be easy to get approved. Now I'm left to figure out how to customize/enhance Sharepoint's wiki to provide more features than it does out of the box. Quite right! I was pretty excited about setting up a MediaWiki server for testing at the office but I've mostly abandoned that project because our Sharepoint server has a limited wiki functionality.

I got the impression that MediaWiki's MySQL backend would be a tough sell to our IT department and Sharepoint would be easy to get approved. Now I'm left to figure out how to customize/enhance Sharepoint's wiki to provide more features than it does out of the box.

]]> By: Lex Slaghuis http://www.sharingatwork.com/2008/10/spotlight-on-londons-wiki-wednesday/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Lex Slaghuis Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:07:56 +0000 http://sharingatwork.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/spotlight-on-londons-wiki-wednesday-attitudes-towards-sharepoint/#comment-99 sharepoint is not a wiki. It is semistructured knwoledge collaboration portal,- with a possible plugin for wiki functionality. In general people think the wiki-functionality is too limited for practical use. sharepoint is not a wiki. It is semistructured knwoledge collaboration portal,- with a possible plugin for wiki functionality. In general people think the wiki-functionality is too limited for practical use.

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