I have considered it. I think I was running a fever at the time.
It's a pig to deploy, and a pig to maintain. The code is bad and the user interface is sucky. But it does what it says on the tin. Also, as soon as you deploy it, spammer and hackers start to attack your site, so security needs to be bombproof.
Loads of extensions, for embedding video, for events calendars etc, but it's a resource hog.
Major advantages in that you can pull content lawfully from Wikipedia, Google likes it, etc.
I considered it, then ran away as hard as I could for http://dartmouthmuseum.org.
I use it elsewhere, but not as a CMS. Have a look at http://castlelist.com as an example of the wikis I run.
On 18 Aug 2011, at 13:58, Joseph Padfield wrote:
> Ok just out of curiosity,
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> Would anyone consider using "Mediawiki" as a CMS ?
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> I have not really tried Wordpress, but I am assuming Mediawiki might be little bit more technical to begin with, but it has a very wide group of users and has been shown, by Wikipedia, to scale very well. It is OS with a huge range of extensions/plugins, custom templates, semantics with possible SPARQL End-point, variable media, maps, connections to external systems, good edit/version administration ....
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> I have used it quite a lot for specific projects, but not as a full CMS, so I thought I would just add it it to the conversation.
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