On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Barrett <d...@vistaprint.com> wrote: > Richard wrote: >>Obviously [Yaron's] book is newer and more updated than the O'Reilly >>one, but I'd be curious to see how it compared to the O'Reilly one >>otherwise if someone has read them both. > > Hi, I wrote the O'Reilly book. > > Yaron's book is surely more current with Mediawiki syntax and development > practices. > Go buy it. :-) > > Where my book stands out, even today, is in coverage of the practical, > big-picture issues > of planning, rolling out, and maintaining a wiki in a large, corporate > environment. > (For example, see Chapter 10, "Practical wiki design.") My team at > Vistaprint runs possibly > the largest and most successful corporate wiki in the U.S. if not the world. > It's 10 years old this Friday and has 250K topics, thousands of users, 100+ > custom extensions, > and a full-time software development staff since its inception. So we've > accumulated a lot > of wisdom, and I tried to distill some of it into the book.
Your book saved me on many occasions. > > FYI, my direct report, Daniel Renfro, presented on some of our work and our > current > challenges at EMWcon last week. Were these talks recorded by any chance? I'd love to watch them. > > DanB > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
