User:Richard Heigl/HalloWelt
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Company or organisation
- Name: Hallo Welt! – Medienwerkstatt GmbH (For-profit organization)
- Location: Regensburg, Germany
- Founded: 2007
- Employees: 15
- Products and Services: MediaWiki enterprise solutions and services. BlueSpice. MediaWiki Enterprise Distribution
Use case
Our customers use MediaWiki as a
- knowledge base,
- technical manual,
- organizational handbook or for
- IT documentation.
Customers are looking for an integrated solution, easy to use, which is also easily extensible and customizable.
Ongoing contributions to MediaWiki communities
- We supply companies with MediaWiki software and services. And via this loop way non-profit organizations benefit from the latest developments and can use MediaWiki more and more easily.
- BlueSpice free (downloaded 1,500 times per month in more than 100 countries)
- We make sure MediaWiki is ideal for companies and ensure that MediaWiki will not be replaced by other software.
- We publish and update MediaWiki extensions.
- Trying to foster sustainability for non-WMF actors, especially by developing a business and partner model.
- Promoting MediaWiki and its extensions.
Wiki Statistics
- Internal wikis: 7
- Customer wikis: >200
Current activities
- Currently we update NSFileRepo. All BlueSpice extensions will be published at the end of 2015.
- This year, we will expand our partner program and also want to create interfaces for developers.
Future
The use of structured data will become increasingly important, which is why we want to promote the integration with SemanticMediaWiki and Cargo for companies. We would put our energy in the development of infrastructures and services. And we want to work more towards user experience and performance, strengthen the cross-connection to SemanticMediaWiki technically and strategically; updating, standardize and deliver MediaWiki extensions more easily.
What we miss
- Bringing internal developments and extensions of companies to the communities.
- But as our resources are very limited, we are looking for synergies. In particular, the development of new extensions and standardizations are very time-comsuming. And there’s always the danger (for us) that WMF then makes similar developments a few years later with more resource (e.g. VisualEditor) or suddenly the technological premises are changed, so we have to reprogram everything.
- Visibility: we could achieve much more if the customer does not come in a roundabout way to our website, but via well made entries on MediaWiki.org. This goes for all service providers.
- Simultaneous editing is one of the greatest features that we could use in enterprise context. Google Docs have set a standard for this. MW sets a standard for organizing content. The combination is a killer. It would also help a lot to share regularly development strategies in order to develop standards.
- Extension management like Wordpress (see further MW Stakeholders feature wishlist)