Re: why bother looking at anything else.. - examin
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 02, 2004 12:58 AM
Only because the author forget to mention this (inexcusable) or didn't even know about the rest, doesn't necessarily mean MediaWiki is the only solution out there.
It is by far not the easiest to setup, use and administrate. It is optimized for visual appearance, where other engines often provide more meta data and structuring features. Also it lacks WikiLinks, because it is THE wiki engine used by WikiPedia and it is optimized for only that (as you yourself concluded). Ordinary users will discover that this can make it harder to use for other purposes, and many of its advanced features cannot be leveraged by them anyhow (e.g. running their database bots).
Again: popularity and superiority are two different things. Look at Windows vs Linux.
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Re: why bother looking at anything else.. - examin
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 02, 2004 12:58 AMIt is by far not the easiest to setup, use and administrate. It is optimized for visual appearance, where other engines often provide more meta data and structuring features. Also it lacks WikiLinks, because it is THE wiki engine used by WikiPedia and it is optimized for only that (as you yourself concluded). Ordinary users will discover that this can make it harder to use for other purposes, and many of its advanced features cannot be leveraged by them anyhow (e.g. running their database bots).
Again: popularity and superiority are two different things. Look at Windows vs Linux.
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