[open-science] Why do you use MediaWiki?

Tue Jan 20 14:16:24 UTC 2015

Hi all!
Great thread! I have set up many a wiki, so i hope you will pardon me for
this forthcoming shameless plug ;)

The Public Lab website is open source and designed for massively
attributing individual contributions to open science and technology:

https://github.com/publiclab/plots2
publiclab.org

There are several other communities who have set up their own version of
the website and we love working together to develop new features that we
can all use.

Yours,
Liz

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On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Pierre-Carl Langlais <
pierrecarl.langlais at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I guess the main reason that sums up it all is : a huge community of
> developers, well-funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. That means a wide
> range of extensions, help and support. Imho, it is actually  easier to
> customize a MediaWiki software (by combining the appropriate extensions
> and some css magic) rather than attempting to use a lesser known version
> of wiki (which may be fine initially, but means a lot of struggle to
> find the appropriate information or set up some additional functions).
>
> PCL
>
> Le 20/01/15 14:49, Lukasz Bolikowski a écrit :
> > Hi Ivan,
> >
> > Raphael has some good points, let me expand them.  Assuming you want
> > to use *a wiki* for a collaborative website, there are several reasons
> > why to choose MediaWiki:
> >
> > 1) Many of your contributing users have probably contributed to
> > Wikipedia as well, so they know the mark-up, they can re-use some of
> > the nice coding tricks employed in Wikipedia (e.g. copy-and-paste
> > infoboxes), they can easily adopt Wikipedia's collaboration
> > principles, they already know what categories are for, how to use a
> > talk page, etc.
> >
> > 2) Thanks to Wikipedia, MediaWiki is a very stable and actively
> > developed piece of software.  There's a rich family of extensions.  It
> > is even possible that one of your power users has written an extension
> > him/herself.
> >
> > 3) Visiting users (viewers) see a familiar UI.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Lukasz
> >
> >
> > On 01/20/2015 02:21 PM, Raphael Ritz wrote:
> >> On 1/20/15 1:56 PM, Ivan Ferrero wrote:
> >>> I always hear about the MediaWiki platform: why?
> >
>
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