San Mateo, February 28, 2019 - Wikipedia retains its crown as the most visible website in Google search results globally based on its performance in organic search in ten countries, including the United States, UK, Germany and France. Second comes YouTube, which also saw the biggest absolute improvement in search performance over the whole of 2018 in all the countries analyzed.
Occasionally, I see a post that I have written as a reference in a white paper, a book, or somewhere else online. I actually started CMSReport.com as a place for me to learn more about Web content management systems and information systems. Whenever someone references CMS Report it signals that we have gone full circle where someone is also learning from me. There is not a more awesome feeling than this.
One thing I have yet to achieve is being a legitimate reference at Wikipedia. Until now! CMS Report is being referenced on the wiki page for Frog CMS.
A couple years ago we decided to use MediaWiki for a wiki implementation at work. Wikipedia uses MediaWiki for their wiki application so we felt it was the right choice for our needs. One concern my team had was that MediaWiki didn't come with a rich text editor (no WYSIWYG).
While a number of us may be fine with using wikitext or HTML to edit our wiki pages, I believe the majority in any organization prefers to edit their pages with a friendly user interface similar to that found on their word processor. At the time, we tried a number of solutions but found neither the suggested TinyMCE or FCKeditor implementation integrated that well with mediaWiki. So for our project we settled with wikEd, an editor that still required users to work with wiki syntax but surprising a very good tool for most users.
During a lunch conversation last week with Deane Barker of Gadgetopia and Blend Interactive, I mentioned my frustrations with MediaWiki not having available a good WYSIWYG solution. Deane suggested that I look at a more recent implementation of MediaWiki plus FCKeditor. This project is being supported by the developers of FCKeditor themselves.
I have been struggling to decide what I think about the Wikipedia/WikiScanner episode that played out last week. Collaboration Loop had some thoughts of their own in the article, The Death of Wikipedia?
As I was heading for bed, I just saw ABC's Nightline story on Wikipedia. Wikipedia uses the wiki application MediaWiki for its content management system. The Nightline story was as close to a fair and balance story on an IT subject you can find on a non-technical program. The story focused not so much on technology as it did the people of Wikipedia, mainly the founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, and the community of wiki users.
Thanks to Line 56 News, I came across MediaWiki . MediaWiki is the same wiki application that the famous Wikipedia site also uses. How can you argue with success?
While we are a little unclear as to the terms and license of the software, it is free software. This application is well worth the look for those interested in installing a Wiki on their server.
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