EMWCon Spring 2019/Panel Questions

This page is a working draft of questions and talking points to prompt discussion from the panelists. Please feel free to add to the list.


 * 1) Where does MediaWiki fit in the enterprise software market?
 * 2) * What popular enterprise software is it directly competing with?
 * 3) There seems to be lots of wiki options (Confluence, Jive, Sharepoint, ...). Is the MediaWiki developer community actually competing with these (in order to increase the customer base) or are they content developing for their own use cases?
 * 4) Even within the MediaWiki community, there are lots of bundles like Dokit, BlueSpice, semantic::core, Meza, etc. Does this hurt Mediawiki's chances of becoming a "household name" in enterprise software?
 * 5) From a typical top-down approach, how does the acquisition and implementation of MediaWiki differ from more popular software?
 * 6) What support do common enterprise packages provide and how does MediaWiki fall short?
 * 7) Why is MediaWiki not a viable platform for enterprise organizations?
 * 8) What features do popular enterprise tools provide that prevent MediaWiki from being chosen?
 * 9) What changes and new features for MediaWiki desired by enterprise users also suit the needs of the Wikipedia projects?
 * 10) * What changes and new features for MediaWiki desired by enterprise users conflict with the needs of the Wikipedia projects?
 * 11) If MediaWiki was produced by a for-profit company, I would never see a return on investing money in that company. Change my mind.