User:Econterms/U.S. Federal Government MediaWikis

Federal MediaWiki Demonstration and Discussion Group:
 * Since Nov 2014 we have monthly virtual demo meetings, organized by Tom O'Neill of DOE/Powerpedia.
 * Diplopedia
 * Powerpedia
 * Statipedia -- discuss evals of agencies and the kinds of info to share there; comparison of policy, tools, organization, staff, platforms, procedures
 * some of NREL's amazing Semantic MediaWikis.
 * NASA's high tech examples: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/05/05/mediawiki-nasa/
 * Important background: Intellipedia, Gcpedia
 * Other examples, not publicly announced. Group is overall growing, but we would like more participation.
 * Recurring choice: one big wiki or a farm of small wikis. Scale/efficiency versus focus.
 * Wave of these 2008-2009, now maybe a new wave. Also in use:  Confluence, SharePoint, also probably Twiki
 * Earlier presentation with the main issues