Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 23, 2006 12:05 AM
To have wide-spread contribution, coded wiki-syntax is a huge barrier. It's fine for coders or for companies who are prepared to do some training, but it is not intuitive or easy for the general population to pick-up.
MoinMoin now has a WYSIWYG editor included in the latest version, but it is missing quite a few other advanced features found in MediaWiki. Still, I think it is much more approachable for new, non-technical users.
A great site for comparing wiki engines used to be <a href="http://www.wikimatrix.org/" title="wikimatrix.org">http://www.wikimatrix.org/</a wikimatrix.org> but it appears to be down right now. The number of alternatives is overwhelming. I tried to configure Twiki, but CGI is just to particular of a language for me. Something PHP-based, such as MediaWiki, was much easier to administer.
When MediaWiki includes some type of WYSIWYG editor (such as WIKIWYG - <a href="http://www.wikiwyg.net/" title="wikiwyg.net">http://www.wikiwyg.net/</a wikiwyg.net>) it will be ready for larger-scale deployment to less-technical user bases. Until then, I don't think there is an ideal solution.
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Wiki-markup is the biggest barrier for adoption
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 23, 2006 12:05 AMMoinMoin now has a WYSIWYG editor included in the latest version, but it is missing quite a few other advanced features found in MediaWiki. Still, I think it is much more approachable for new, non-technical users.
A great site for comparing wiki engines used to be <a href="http://www.wikimatrix.org/" title="wikimatrix.org">http://www.wikimatrix.org/</a wikimatrix.org> but it appears to be down right now. The number of alternatives is overwhelming. I tried to configure Twiki, but CGI is just to particular of a language for me. Something PHP-based, such as MediaWiki, was much easier to administer.
When MediaWiki includes some type of WYSIWYG editor (such as WIKIWYG - <a href="http://www.wikiwyg.net/" title="wikiwyg.net">http://www.wikiwyg.net/</a wikiwyg.net>) it will be ready for larger-scale deployment to less-technical user bases. Until then, I don't think there is an ideal solution.
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