Enterprise hub

Enterprise wikis are meant to be used in a corporate (or organizational) context with a focus on enhancing internal knowledge sharing and a greater emphasis on features like access control, integration with other software, and document management.

To see how how others organizations use MediaWiki, see MediaWiki testimonials.

If you want to collaborate with other third-party MediaWiki users, please join the mediawiki-enterprise mailing list.

For other third-party uses of MediaWiki, please see Sysadmin hub.

Vampire Model
The vampire model consists of two rules: This method of account-creation removes the burden of making all accounts from single user/admin, this greatly simplifies matters. Because trust of peers is relatively high in an enterprise setting, a single account can be made for a department head or project manager, who then can make accounts for his/her coworkers. Because Mediawiki logs all account activity it is (relatively) easy to track accountability for creation of spam/bot accounts.
 * 1) only registered users may edit
 * 2) only registered users may create accounts

Authentication

 * Extension:LDAP_Authentication
 * Leverage an existing LDAP (including Microsoft Active Directory, Kerberos) as a single sign-on

Authorization

 * Manual:User_rights
 * Manual:Preventing_access
 * Manual:Block_and_unblock
 * Extension:EditSubpages
 * Security issues with authorization extensions
 * Security issues with authorization extensions

Access control lists (ACL)
WARNING some extensions exists but you should never trust them in reading access restrictions since there are too many holes to stuff.


 * Extension:HaloACL

Sign-on

 * Extension:LDAP_Authentication
 * Leverage an existing LDAP (including Microsoft Active Directory, Kerberos) as a single sign-on
 * Alternatives:
 * Extension:Windows_NTLM_LDAP_Auto_Auth

Display

 * Extension:Realnames (beta)
 * Display user realnames instead of the usernames (which may not be meaningful given ITIL and other username standards)

Management

 * Extension:Renameuser
 * Let an admin group rename any user account.

Editing

 * Extension:ParserFunctions
 * Bundled with core, required for complex templating including most WP templates.


 * Extension:WikiEditor
 * WYSIWYG editor sponsored by WikiMedia.


 * Vector
 * A Polished skin for MediaWiki that comes bundled by default. Enable Extension:Vector for advanced functionality for this skin.


 * Extension:Cite
 * Display citations to show where information originated. This is particularly useful when merging data from a single document on multiple wiki pages to indicate why the information is authoritative.

Navigation & Search

 * Extension:BreadCrumbs2
 * Navigation aid when traversing the wiki, usually used to display and highlight a category hierarchy.


 * Extension:CategoryTree
 * Improve category listings with counters for contained pages of sub-categories.


 * Extension:SphinxSearch
 * An alternative to the default search engine, lightweight but allowing more robust indexing of content through the third-party Sphinx engine.
 * Alternatives:
 * Extension:Lucene-search -- more complicated but more robust still, used by large wikis like Wikipedia


 * Extension:Semantic MediaWiki
 * Allows you to add meta data to content in wiki articles and providing a query language for dynamically retrieving content including properties and lists of articles.
 * Alternatives:
 * Extension:DynamicPageList

Professional Help

 * Online resources for finding professional MediaWiki help
 * Professional individual developers and companies offering MediaWiki-related services
 * Software bundles and MediaWiki distributions for the enterprise