The open source wiki behind Wikipedia (NewsForge)

Posted Dec 1, 2004 22:26 UTC (Wed) by ikm (guest, #493)
In reply to: The open source wiki behind Wikipedia (NewsForge) by job
Parent article: The open source wiki behind Wikipedia (NewsForge)

I thought I already answered: because I like the usability. I like the ability to enter TeX formulas, I like the ability to edit on a per-paragraph basis, I like it's tag set, I like the way it handles history, I like that it hates the CamelCase style just as I do, I like how it looks and how it feels, and perhaps many other things I can't remember right now -- I just like it all.

Using pieces of paper is the most simple solution, by the way, and it doesn't require computers and all associated complexity. However, the most simple solution is not neccessarily the best one. For me personally, MediaWiki is better than anything else I have ever seen. That's only me, though -- and perhaps a bunch of other people who enjoy MediaWiki as much as I do :)

I hope this answers your question.

And indeed,

Posted Dec 2, 2004 17:39 UTC (Thu) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

this is my response as well: I'm not concerned with how big it is (and by my evaluation, MediaWiki isn't *nearly* as big as, say, WebGUI -- WG too me (literally) a week to install; MW... 4 minutes. :-), as whether it comes out of the box functional.

And MediaWiki does.

While they still have a ways to go on things like help text (I gather there's a GFDL/GPL collision on the Wikipedia helptext being included in the package), overall the thing Just Works.

And that's *really* important to me.