User:MWJames

We believe Mediawiki and SMW are incredible tools (open source) to work with and it can be quite fun, as well as satisfactory to solve some of the fundamental problems that any knowledge management system faces. The main task to be accomplished by our internal Mediawiki installation is to:
 * Storage of internal research papers related to research projects
 * A library system that allows to attach certain semantic annotations to easily query data related to a research field
 * A document repository system (not as comfortable as MS sharepoint or others etc.) by requiring that semantic annotations are stored together with the document
 * Manage external links and research studies that might impact future projects (cumulated impact factor)

The most important function for our MW is, to have a well develop classification system Extension:Semantic MediaWiki combined with a Search Engine Extension:SphinxSearch that allows searches based on relevancy.

We had some performance problems while testing MW 1.17 therefore we decided to change from
 * PHP	5.2.9-1 (cgi-fcgi), MySQL	5.0.77-community-nt, eAccelerator 0.9 to
 * PHP	5.3.5 (apache2handler), MySQL	5.5.8, APC 3.1.6, Memcache 1.2.6 (info see )

Miscellaneous
Some solutions we found useful when combining Mediawiki and its extensions can be found.

Useful addition to MW 1.17

 * Snippets
 * jQuery makeCollapsible