User:Callum Wilson

Just rolled out a mediawiki based wiki for the IT department of a large UK based insurance/assurance company - it included the following extensions:


 * LDAP Authentication Extension to authenticate users against the corporate Active Directory.
 * SpecialUserScore Extension to encourage staff to contribute to the wiki by showing the "top contributors"
 * ASHighlight Extension to allow users to add syntax highlighted code segments to the wiki articles.

Overview
The business case for doing this was that this IT dept have a large project share of large word documents and a distributed location development model. Basically, no one could find any useful documentation.

In order to get critical mass for the wiki, it was prefed by a consultant (moi) with 200 odd articles covering:
 * Organisation Logical data model - so that all future articles can link to the terminology used in the business.
 * user guides for various things
 * some quality standards for coding
 * and about 10 or so pages showing how to use the wiki itself.

Early signs are that the techies love this and the business analysts seem to like the heavily interlinked business model and are contributing. Some teams say "We don't have time to contribute" which is a typical sign of short sighted project management.

System Details

 * CentOS 5 Linux system
 * installed with: