MediaWiki testimonials

Testimonials
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Novell (Wikipedia article): "Novell uses MediaWiki extensively. MediaWiki provides Novell with a powerful tool where customers, partners, and Novell can share and evolve knowlege (wiki.novell.com). MediaWiki is also the underlying platform for over a dozen Novell-lead open source project websites, including openSUSE.org. Internally, MediaWiki provides Novell with a collaboration tool to complement traditional messaging tools and as an organizational knowledge repository. Additionally, Novell Users International, an independent global association of Novell technology professionals, uses MediaWiki at www.nuinet.com in order to share knowledge and strategies for managing local Novell user group chapters throughout the world." &mdash; ''Ted Haeger, Director of Novell User Communities


 * Company profile: Novell, Inc. (Nasdaq: NOVL) delivers Software for the Open Enterprise. With more than 50,000 customers in 43 countries, Novell helps customers manage, simplify, secure and integrate their technology environments by leveraging best-of-breed, open standards-based software. With over 20 years of experience, 5,000 employees, 5,000 partners and support centers around the world, Novell helps customers gain control over their IT operating environment while reducing cost. More information about Novell can be found at http://www.novell.com.

Intel Corporation (Wikipedia article): "I implemented an instance of MediaWiki for use by all 100,000+ employees of the company. It's called Intelpedia, and was created in November 2005. In the first year of life, it quickly grew to over 10,000 pages, and almost 3,000 registered contributors. It averages about 8,000 views and 150 edits per day. Intelpedia was featured at Wikimania 2006, as part of the organizational use of MediaWiki, and was also featured in a Wall Street Journal article on the same topic." &mdash; Josh Bancroft, Intel employee and Intelpedia creator


 * Company profile: Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation and based in Santa Clara, California, USA, is the world's largest semiconductor company. Intel is best known for its PC microprocessors, where it maintains roughly 80% market share. Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network cards and other networking ICs, flash memory, embedded processors, and other devices related to communications and computing.

Wikia (Wikipedia article): "Mediawiki software is the foundation of everything Wikia does today. It has proved to be extremely scalable and flexible as Wikia has grown to over 230,000 articles and millions of page views.  Mediawiki is a very rich and powerful software tool that is enabling Wikia to build a sustainable business." &mdash; Gil Penchina, Chief Executive Officer


 * Company profile: Since the site's launch in November 2004, over 1,500 Wikia have been created and edited by over 30,000 registered users. Wikia are already available in over 40 languages (List of Wikia). Wikia already hosts some of the world's largest wikis outside of Wikipedia. Wikia is committed to openness and improving the world, by inviting  anyone to contribute web content. Authors retain their own copyrights and allow others to freely reuse their content under the GNU Free  Documentation License, allowing widespread distribution of knowledge and  ideas.

End Point Corporation: "We use MediaWiki for our private intranet to keep track of much of our business. We have added some customizations (HTTP basic auth logins, a 'watch everything' option) and have installed MediaWiki for several of our clients as well. Our experience has been good. What attracted us to MediaWiki is that its markup format is now widely known due to the popularity of Wikipedia, and we wanted to make it easy for users to edit pages. Installation was fairly  straightforward, although some configuration that doesn't match Wikipedia's needs (such as a closed login-only site) wasn't simple, and patches that the developers think won't ever be used by Wikipedia have not been accepted. But running MediaWiki has been a breeze. [Our clients] found having a Wiki to be very valuable. It frees them from the mess of emailing word processing documents back and forth, with conflicting versions, no clear edit history, and no interlinking. Keeping everything on the server, accessible via a web browser, has been very helpful." &mdash; Jon Jensen, Vice President, Systems and Development


 * Company profile: End Point develops database-backed websites, especially e-commerce, for our clients in many areas. Our technologies of choice are free  software such as Interchange, Perl, PostgreSQL, Linux, and Apache.

Gyanasoft: "When Gyanasoft was founded, MediaWiki was one of the very first IT systems we set up, due to our experience using it at previous companies. It's working out very well as a central repository for all of our knowledge; we use it to store e.g. system administration documents, software installation guides, HR procedures, an internal address book, software tips and tricks, weekly status reports, and all customer project related information. " &mdash; Stephen Warren, Software Architect


 * Company profile: Gyanasoft is focused on providing robust embedded software platform architectures, tools and services, targeted at the System-on-a-Chip market, with particular expertise in Consumer electronics equipment and programmable multi-media processors.

Technologies, Inc.''': "Aperture is one of the first companies to implement a corporate wiki on its intranet using MediaWiki software. Installed in December of 2003, we did some of the early development work on MediaWiki to adapt it for use by corporate sites. Our site is currently available to all employees and is used for all manner of technical documentation, discussions, planning, and as a distribution point for corporate information. We are considering opening it up to our customers." &mdash; Nicholas Pisarro, Jr., Company cofounder and Sr. Software Developer


 * Company profile: Aperture Technologies, Inc. provides a web based product, Aperture VISTA&reg;, that is an enterprise software solution which reduces operational risk and improves efficiency through the visual management of the data center. It does this by improving planning, design, provisioning, troubleshooting and reporting.

List
This is a list of companies using MediaWiki, typically in an Intranet environment. If your company uses MediaWiki, feel free to add a link to the company, or the wiki installation, to this list. If the wiki installation is not public, it is important that you describe precisely how it is used.


 * 1) 4Bridges eLearning Systems uses MediaWiki for internal documentation and for their Employee Handbook.
 * 2) Adam Internet
 * 3) Advanced Gaming Systems, an Internal Wiki to faciliate agile development of "The Next Harpoon" and an external Wiki to provide an easily editable and updatable knowledge base/online manual for AGSI customers.
 * 4) Agentur webdesign-hannover.cc used MediaWiki for intranet projects to create dynamic content
 * 5) Aperture Technologies, Inc. see NickP
 * 6) ASPM
 * 7) AOE media GmbH uses MediaWiki for internal project management and structuring
 * 8) BELNET the Belgian research and education Network, uses MediaWiki for internal documentation
 * 9) Brick in the Yard Mold Supply a private website using MediaWiki for dynamic content.
 * 10) Cadence Web Development website design & development agency in Australia. Uses internal wiki for product development.
 * 11) Creative Usa Corporation web design and consulting company.
 * 12) Crafton, Tull & Associates, Inc. architects, engineers, and surveyors.
 * 13) CustisWiki a public knowledge base of Customized InformSystems. All content (in Russian) replicated from intranet MediaWiki's.
 * 14) CypherEdge (fka Cyphermetrix), for internal corporate & engineering knowledge base
 * 15) Digital District Internetagentur, for coordination of the iso9000 audit and certification
 * 16) DIYinfo.com - A Handyman's Do It Yourself Wiki, uses MediaWiki as a content management system
 * 17) Excellus, a Western NY Blue Cross and Blue Shield health insurance company uses MediaWiki as an internal corporate knowledge repository that includes information on projects, strategy and policy, standards and guidelines and many more topics.
 * 18) FireBright, Inc. The Open Source CMS company.
 * 19) InSecurity.Org :: CCSH Open Source Development web site and open source projects security testing center.
 * 20) Insights International projectmanagement, programmamanagement, training en consultancy Is currently experimenting the use of MediaWiki for (internal) documentation and collaboration.
 * 21) InterAKT Online, a Dreamweaver extensions maker, uses MediaWiki for spec'ing the next generation of its products
 * 22) ISA Telematics GmbH, German ISV in the Telematics/GPS/GSM sector. Using MediaWiki internally to maintain their site in multiple languages. A static copy of the content is synced to the Web server at a button push.
 * 23) IT/Linux Days event planning
 * 24) Hay Interiors Soft furnishing services company. Used MediaWiki to create a website the non-technical owners could maintain themselves.
 * 25) Jumba Support Wiki, a hosting, domains and technical support wiki
 * 26) Legal forms and resources for businesses and individuals
 * 27) log internet consulting, a opensource consulting firm in Portugal
 * 28) Kampeerbungalows, Dutch website about vacation accommodations, uses MediaWiki to create and render dynamic content.
 * 29) MobyGames, Online Games Database. Used for quick colaboration between staff, however the public site runs off of a custom database and not in wiki format.
 * 30) Metro Patrol Services Private Police agency. Used for internal collaboration and Standard Operating Procedures
 * 31) Mvlife
 * 32) Network Appliance - NetApp uses Mediawiki for its internal Engineering documentation
 * 33) newthinking use MediaWiki for Documentation, internal organisation, writing and reviewing of articles etc..
 * 34) NVIDIA uses MediaWiki for some internal documentation
 * 35) Omroep Venray is a local public radio station in the Netherlands that uses MediaWiki for internal documentation and information exchange.
 * 36) Protocom Technology a mobile messenging infrastructure and software supplier using MediaWiki to provide customers with support and references at ProtocomWiki
 * 37) Pepper Computer, Inc. uses MediaWiki as its internal knowledgebase for documentation, procedures, and employee support.
 * 38) Siemens AG uses MediaWiki for internal knowledgebase.
 * 39) Site Confidence is a web site monitoring company using MediaWiki for internal knowledge management and documentation.
 * 40) Sitewards offers design (print and web) as well as software development (desktop and web). We use MediaWiki to document projects, processes and as a general information sharing portal.
 * 41) SMWM, an architecture and urban planning firm based in San Francisco. Intranet, Knowledge Base, and internal documentation.
 * 42) Travel Penguin, Open World's latest travel portal uses MediaWiki as a content management system for the destination guides.
 * Gartner
 * Novell as the official internal Wiki implementation
 * 1) Ordina VisionWorks uses MediaWiki as internal collaboration and knowledge management tool
 * 2) Commvault uses MediaWiki for internal documentation, information exchange and knowlegde base.
 * 3) NDS (DRM, conditional access, IPTV, DVR supplier) uses MediaWiki as an internal encyclopedia & knowledge base.
 * 4) NTEK Technologies uses MediaWiki for intranet and internal knowledgebase.
 * 5) Itaipu Binacional Uses MediaWiki for intranet and internal knowledgebase
 * 6) Sterling European Airlines Uses MediaWiki for internal knowledgebase.
 * 7) NEW.EGO GmbH Uses MediaWiki for different client Websites