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Five enterprise open source wiki apps to watch
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| 2. Mediawiki
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| MediaWiki is the wiki application made famous for running
| Wikipedia. It's designed to be run on a large server farm for
| a Web site that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki
| supports versioning of pages and can manage image and
| multimedia files. For large wikis with lots of users,
| MediaWiki supports caching and can be easily coupled with
| Squid proxy server software. MediWiki supports skins and plug-
| ins for extensibility. The application is developed in PHP and
| supports MySQL and PostgreSQL.
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http://www.cio.com.au/article/319313/five_enterprise_open_source_wiki_apps_watch
Myths about Open Source
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| Open source has licences that can be beneficial to the
| creators. Some companies have dual licences, which allows them
| to charge for their product or services. So their trademark is
| in place and they can sell their product. If there are
| individuals who are doing the same for their distributions or
| software, then it is basically the cost of the media that you
| will be paying for. (Eg. CDs, DVDs, etc.)
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http://www.livemint.com/2009/09/22204811/Myths-about-Open-Source.html?h=B
Recent:
How I think Wikipedia works
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| I have a mental model of how Wikipedia works and behaves. This may not
| reflect reality, but it is how I, as an end-user, expect Wikipedia to behave.
| I think these are reasonable expectations regarding things like standards of
| proof and balance and that if the real Wikipedia differs substantially from
| these expectations, then we have a problem.
|
| [...]
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| Does anyone know whether the above statements have any basis in the
| aspirations or actual practice of Wikipedia editors and admins? Sadly, my
| recent reading of some articles suggests that these reasonable expectations
| are routinely flouted and bear little resemblance to reality.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/06/how-i-think-wikipedia-works.html
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