If you feel insulted that's your own problem, I never intended to insult anyone. I'm just explaining what I see. The "everyone is entitled to their opinion" door swings both ways. I'm just surprised that this topic has gotten as much attention as it has considering it was created by some random joe[bert] that nobody has ever heard of. There must be something to it. Again, I never intended to insult anyone and I apologise if I hurt anyones feelings... But I have no vested interest in Wordpress or MediaWiki, I don't have any sites that are built on top of either. I'm comming into this topic with a view that's as objective as it gets & I'm getting the feeling that a lot of people expressing interest in this thread are doing so because their site is built on top of Wordpress and their gut reaction to this was along the lines of "Oh no platforms are switching again!", without looking at it objectively.
You see, what you're doing there is putting your own opinions onto other people's thoughts, or how you imagine other people's thoughts to be when they don't even exist outside your own head. You're stubbornly sticking to your opinion despite what everyone else is telling you and, worst of all, despite you're own admission that you've never used either piece of software to build a website. How on Earth can you make such a statement like 'WikiMedia Will Replace Wordpress' when you don't have a clue about either? It's not objective, it's not even validly opinionated - it's just ludicrous.
Huh ? I'm just typing it, you're the one reading it. If anyone's putting thoughts into your head, it's you. You read me wrong. I said I don't have any websites running on either piece of software. I never said anything about not using either of them.
Thank you. Let us agree that we disagree and move forward. I still dont believe that a wiki is going to replace wordpress.
I went to the download page and it apparent that MediaWiki will never be much more than a Wiki site engine. How so? I am looking at the download, I see a version 1.16.0, a version 1.13.5, and a version 1.14.0. Which version do I download? Why have three seemingly incompatible versions? Me? I could find out those answers, but I can't be bothered and neither can most other bloggers.
@joebert. I agree with you to an certain extent. Mediawiki is the thing to use for collabrative content. Are you using it in any of your websites. If so how about providing a review and highlight its advantages. I would love to know the procedure for installing it in my joomla site. Can you point me to some tutorials. I googled but top results in google are junk.
You can't install Mediawiki into Joomla, they are two separate content management systems. You can use a Bridge though, so they run side by side, like this one: http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/221/details
Thanks Astroman, (Reps for you) But the problem is legacy plugin does not work for me. I have tried all solutions and some great people in joomla forums are unable to help. To solve this I am looking to reinstall joomla on my site once again so that the legacy plugin will work. I have some users (say a few hundred) in my site. Is it possible to take a backup of the user database and upload it to the fresh installation.
Yeah, it's easy enough to back-up your users, but do they post on a board or send messages or anything? You'd have to back that up too if they do.
Thank god they are not sending messages or using boards. I have to back up only users. How to go about taking backup. I am using cpanel.
Well just back up your entire joomla database first and keep that safe, two copied in different folders. Do you know how to do that with cpanal phpmyadmin?
I have taken full backup. But the problem is the database is huge. Content is not important for me and it would take a lot of time. If it is possible to take backup of users alone it would be great. How to find the user database? Thanks you for your replies.(Damn there is no smilies for thank you.)
Man, I don't even know where to start. How did you come up with this comparison? They are to completely different things. You said you use them both so do I and I can't even begin to understand how you came to this conclusion. WikiMedia is used for collaborative content management and will never be able to be used as a blog, never never and never!!! It was not build for that. You can't use it to run a e-commerce website, a membership website, video sharing site, a podcast, or even a photo gallery with out hassle. But Wordpress can do all those things with a few plugins and in case you haven't been over by the Wordpress section lately there is now Wiki plugin that does the same thing as WikiMedia and if all the features aren't there yet if you keep up with the Wordpress community at all then you'll know that it is heavily supported by thousands of developers and millions of bloggers so expect it to improve. and this is not counting Wordpress.com. I just don't get where you came up with the concept of "replace", so what the top 1000 blogs on Technarati are going to switch over to MediaWiki in two years? lol. Try never my friend because it's not a blogging software and even more it's not simple. As a blogger turn developer I know the power of simplicity and the guys at Wordpress and Joomla too understand that simplicity will always win. At the same time Wordpress is PHP driven so you can plugin anything into it. I mean have you seen what people are doing with Wordpress these days? You can't even tell your on a blog anymore with all the premium themes poppin up left and right not to mention the plugins are getting so much better. A perfect example would be the WP-ecommerce plugin or even the Next Gen Gallery plugin and I'm working on a Media plugin right now (MediaPress) that will give you the ability to turn Wordpress into any type of social media site. WikiMedia can't do these things simply because that's not the intention of WikiMedia. So your telling me all those major companies like CNN, Pleople Magazine, Flickr, Ford, MarthaStewart, eBay, Wired, Yahoo, New York Times etc are just going to replace Wordpress with WikiMedia? LMAO, do I even need to go any further? Sure they maybe one day use WikiMedia as addon service to achieve something different from blogging but to replace it would be impossible. When some asks for the best blogging tool out there, the answers will be Blogger, TypePad, Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org as well as a few others. The answer will never be WikiMedia. Facebook uses WikiMedia but that doesn't change the fact that they still have a blog, because they both serve two different purposes. If someone is looking for a great CMS, they need not look any further than Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress.org. All three have so many supported plugins and themes that you can use them to build anything. Again I can't understand where this comparison is coming after reading this I had to go check out WikiMedia to see if there was some new features added or something that would inspire this theory. I desing and develop many websites for clients and not once has WikiMedia ever come to mind. Please explain how does WikiMedia (a collaborative content platform) compare with Wordpress (a blogging/CMS platform), because I must be missing something. THank you for your time and thank you for reading.
I agree MediaWiki and WP are similar in some sense, in that you can write 'articles' on either. Problem is, there's a much steeper learning curve for using MediaWiki imho, so it's hard to say how long it will be before people start 'preferring' it over WP. Well, took me about 2 hrs to get ads into the right place on MW, the first day I installed and tried using it. Even so, it's not nearly as easy to setup as WP wrt SEO and rewrites. They're just the bare necessities, though - i think overall, MW does have a considerable advantage over WP in that it has many automated features such as linking, categorisation, and so on. Personally, I don't see why both shouldn't exist. I actually do prefer the 'cleanliness' of WP over MW, but I'm only a beginner in both.