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The '''typical survey participant''' is either a developer/administrator or in management and works in a small organization with 25 or less people. Using MediaWiki now for over 5 years, he counts as long time user. He is managing 2โ5 wikis, from which at least 1 is public and 1 private. The user sees 25 or less people on his wiki. The user uses MediaWiki because of it being Open Source and easy to use due to its similarity to Wikipedia. His public wiki is a fun site and his enterprise wiki is used for internal knowledge creation and management. He is unhappy with the upgrade process and the installation of new extensions and would like to see WordPress-like simple update buttons in the admin backend. For the enterprise wiki, access control and a functioning easy Visual Editor are important, but even more important is a slick, superpretty GUI. The user is part of the software community and contributes some feedback and bug reports. He also spreads the word. Irritating is the connection to Wikipedia and the scrambled software documentation, which isn't very user-friendly. Community-wise, he wishes for a master plan, good communication and easy ways of involvement to give back to the community and support the project. | |||
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Revision as of 03:23, 19 October 2015
Trailer (Chris?)
Distribution
There's a huge wiki world beyond Wikimedia Foundation.[1] (Sabine?)
Downloads
- The downloads in China are remarkable high
Hosting
- Thousands of installed MediaWiki on shared hosting (one-click) providers
Most downloaded extensions
Even to know, which extensions are popular is nearly impossible. Some data from December 2014 (shared by Legoktm) are interesting. And give a first impression of needed add-ons in wikis beyond the Wikimedia Foundation. Many "top 20" extensions already prove the intense use of MediaWiki in companies and organizations.
Comparisons with Wordpress and other content management systems
(Richard)
- Compare trends. Searches for Wordpress and MediaWIki, Confluence ...
- Comparison searches for wiki and blog: Wiki more popular. But MediaWiki is not the most important player
- Reason: No ecosystem for MediaWiki established, SMW, BlueSpice, Wikia, WMF ... working separated.
Typical MediaWiki users
The typical survey participant is either a developer/administrator or in management and works in a small organization with 25 or less people. Using MediaWiki now for over 5 years, he counts as long time user. He is managing 2โ5 wikis, from which at least 1 is public and 1 private. The user sees 25 or less people on his wiki. The user uses MediaWiki because of it being Open Source and easy to use due to its similarity to Wikipedia. His public wiki is a fun site and his enterprise wiki is used for internal knowledge creation and management. He is unhappy with the upgrade process and the installation of new extensions and would like to see WordPress-like simple update buttons in the admin backend. For the enterprise wiki, access control and a functioning easy Visual Editor are important, but even more important is a slick, superpretty GUI. The user is part of the software community and contributes some feedback and bug reports. He also spreads the word. Irritating is the connection to Wikipedia and the scrambled software documentation, which isn't very user-friendly. Community-wise, he wishes for a master plan, good communication and easy ways of involvement to give back to the community and support the project.
Sizes of organization
Usage time of MediaWiki
Number of MediaWiki sites
Public and private sites
Number of users
Extensions and age of the used wikis
MediaWiki versions
Updates
Most important extensions
Reasons for using MediaWiki
Feature requests
(Richard)
Primary requirements
Secondary requirements
Community
Contributions for the community
Improvements and barriers
Next steps and requirements
(Chris, Mark, Markus, all .....)
- Reliability
- Standardization
- Services in core
- MediaWiki Foundation
See also
- Chris Koerner: MediaWiki User Report, Wikimania 2015
- MediaWiki Usage Questions