The WikiMedia CMS is going to replace the Wordpress CMS in terms of popularity within two years. This is my bet based on factors such as ease of installation and use, scalability, and things the SEO people like. Scalability and Inbound Linking will be the main contributers.
Your expecting million of bloggers to switch over to a wiki in the next couple of years?? Wiki - for information management Wordpress - for blogging. I dont see too much of a comparison there.
Gotta agree with Kev dude.. with the amount of work behind wordpress and its plugins.. not gonna happen anytime soon!
This is the Internet, we go by dog years. 2 years for online people is like a decade and a half to offline people. Have either you you guys ever actually setup MediaWiki and played around with it ? Here's how easy it is to create a new post/article. You type the URL you want to use in your browser, tada ! Doing so takes you to the page where all you have to do is click the edit link and add the page content. How do you create inbound links within articles, you wrap words with [[]], tada ! The page doesn't even have to exist yet, you can create one page with plans to expand on a topic on another page, and just create inbound links to those planned pages while you're creating the cover article. Then, follow those links later and carry on. You can't tell me you haven't seen articles lately about how people are really, I mean really starting to look into why Google loves Wikipedia soo much. Once they catch on to the Wikimedia software the only thing that will be holding up waves of people jumping ship is a transfer utility. What is a blog to "information management" software ? It's a butt load of starting points for expanding the blog into a fullblown site, that's what. You take a blog that's already established, move it to WikiMedia, then have a field day creating inbound links to new articles using existing keyword phrases in existing posts. The best part, Wikimedia asks you about your memcached settings during installation.
Word press at the moment is very popular, well used, is flexible, has numerous useful plugins and above all, is easy and simple to use. How easy is wikiMedia and are there any sites that are popular that are run on the wikiMedia platform? Kind Regards
MediaWiki - No, I have not not. Wikipedia - Yes, I have edited some articles in it. And I still do not see any comparison between a wiki and a blog. Both have their purpose, and both are good at what they do. But, one platform is designed for one application and the other platform for a different application. This is not an apples or oranges comparison. This is more like comparing an apple and a brick. One does one thing, the other does something different.
I'm all for bagging Wordpress, but this idea is plain nonsense. The reason Googles like wikipedia so much is because it has millions of pages being updated all the time, and because Google artificially slants its results in favor of wikipedia, and has nothing to do with the software it uses. There are plenty of mediawiki sites out there already, and has been for a long time. It's nothing new.
And lets not forget about the millions of backlinks wikipedia gets. I bet there are several hundred links just from my forum alone. I am willing to bet that wikipedia is one of the most linked sites on the internet. And that is why google likes wikipedia. Not because the system is better then wordpress or any other blogging platform.
Yeah...but that's Wikipedia...I am sure most other WM sites don't get a millionth of that type of attention. The internal linking ease of WM can be easily set up via a WP plugin. I can see you are excited by WM but we will have to see whether or not something happens about the popularity of that CMS. Regards, Col
It's good software. Depends on the project. Wordpress is also very easy to install and easily configurable. with confidence like yours though you should probably be picking lottery numbers, then when you cash in you won't even have to ever log on again.
I read the replies to this thread and do you know what I see ? Fear of change. Lack of vision. Rather than looking at what is, look at what will be. This is one of those threads that everyone will read and disagree with, until they've slept on it.
I look at this thread and see someone who's discovered mediawiki about 5 years later than everyone else, and is a bit naive and blown away by the apparent simplicity of it. I'm not a Wordpress fan at all, but I can see why the numpties and newbies like it - it's easy to set up and modify, and in that misty 2 dog year future of yours I imagine it will be even better. And, by the tame token, I can see why the N and Ns don't get along with mediawiki so well - if it takes longer than 10 minutes to get your head around it's already a lost cause with 'generation can't be arsed', and that's not even getting round to the fact that it's practically impossible to make it look nice with the same ease you can Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal etcetera....
That is probably the most ridiculous claim I've ever heard. They are of two completely different platform categories.
Instead of respecting the opinion of others, you resort to insults? Wordpress serves my needs. Everything that I need & want to do can be done with wordpress. There is no need for me to change software. When my needs change, then I will look at a different platform. Another topic here is respect. If you want to use a certain platform, then please do so. If I choose to stay with wordpress, please keep your insults to yourself.