Mahi-Mahi Enterprise Mediawiki
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Gartner predicts that half of all U.S. businesses will use wikis within three years. October 2006
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Mahi-Mahi and Enterprise Content Managers
Mahi-Mahi borns as an alternative to expensive Enterprise Content Managers.
In autumn 2005 AIIM, the worldwide association for enterprise content management, defined ECM as follows:
Enterprise Content Management is the technologies used to Capture, Manage, Store, Preserve, and Deliver content and documents related to organizational processes.
Mahi-Mahi fits this bill and adds Open Source to the equation, using as its base the software that powers Wikipedia, the most popular Internet encyclopedia, based on the wiki concept receiving millions of hists a day.
What is a wiki ?
A Wiki is a collaborative website, which some authorized users can edit, using only a web browser, and its contenct can be viewed by the general public or authorized users as well.
Many people also view the wiki as an anarchistic publishing tool.
The distinguishing feature of public wikis is that they typically allow all users to edit any page, with full freedom to edit, change and delete the work of previous authors.
Other typical wiki features include:
- A simple set of Text Formatting Rules which allow access to a subset of HTML, know as Wikitext.
- Easy creation of links to wiki pages surrounding them with special characters (like Main Page which becomes a link).
- Easy creation of new wiki pages. A link to an undefined page is displayed in a different color, typically red, or with a question mark. Click on the "?" or broken link to create the new page.
- A Recent Changes page which lists pages that have been edited recently.
The oldest public wiki (the Portland Pattern Repository) was created in 1995. [Bo Leuf] and [Ward Cunningham] published a book in 2001 that tries to explain it all: The Wiki Way, ISBN 0-201-71499-X (amazon.com search).
This data been extracted from http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WhatIsaWiki
Wikipedia
On of the most sucessfull examples of the use of a wiki is Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers, allowing most articles to be changed by almost anyone with access to the Web site. Currently Wikipedia has more than five million articles in many languages, including more than 1.4 million in the English-language version. There are 250 language editions of Wikipedia, and 17 of them have more than 50,000 articles each.
This is a great example of what the wiki technology and colaborative work can achieve.
Furthermore, Wikipedia is based on Open Source software, named Mediawiki.
What is Mahi-Mahi ?
Despite its suceess, its stability, scalability and flexibility, sometimes the original Mediawiki on whom Wikipedia is based, has not the main objectives as a company knowledge base could have.
That's the main reason why COD Technologies has created Mahi-Mahi to add the functionality, security and support needd by an enterprise but conserving the Mediawiki roots, to seize its Open Source nature and all of its mentioned features.
Features
Mahi-Mahi adds these features to the Mediawiki code base
- Simplified installation through platform package manager
- LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory authentication
- Private wiki spaces
- Access restrictions
- Boxes
- Page templates
- Additional file format supports (Flash, PDF)
- Automated backup
- Simplified upgrades
- Replication on multiple sites
- Office document formats conversion
- Access and publication from PDAs and cell phones
- Web services
- email gateway
Mahi-Mahi as corporate intranet
Sometimes the corporate intranet becomes in a "Write Once Read Never" repository.
Mahi-Mahi is aimed to change this.
Knowledge base
The knowledge base of any organization should be:
- easealy updateable
- easy to find (simple URL)
- easy to search
- extensible
- traceable
Furthermore, it shouldbe created by key employees from inside the organization to allow the knowledge, an invaluable asset, remains always reachable and be simple enough to permit non-technical people to get involved, to add and toedit content.
Mahi-Mahi is able to give all of these benefits to your organization.
Sandbox
To see most of the Mahi-Mahi features you can visit http://sandbox.codtech.com.
