I'm not sure about highlighting items, but the search engine of MediaWiki is quite good, especially if you install the Lucene search extension and associated software, and you cane even set up the search to work with external search engines if you or the user prefers for faster/more efficient searching. Searches also start with the most relevant results and progress downward towards the least relevant results by default.
Items can be tagged/grouped into categories and subcategories very easily in MediaWiki, and reversed the same way.
Content and menus can be very easily accessed, especially depending on the modifications you make to the skin, sidebar, redirects, and navigation templates.
As for adding new entries, that is rather easy to do, and you can customize how edits are made and entered using both extensions and by editing the configuration files that govern user rights.
As for option/support for importing FosWiki data, I'm afraid I don't have much knowledge if that is possible, you may wish to look around to see if any scripts have been made for this type of conversion.
From: agenerette@hotmail.com To: mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:26:21 -0800 Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Considering a move to Mediawiki
Hello, My name is Anthony and I'm looking at possible replacement for my organization's current document management system: Foswiki. I've looked at a number of different comparison charts and spoke to a few vendors, but have hadtrouble actually getting a good sense for what might work for us. Here are a few things that our users are looking to find, in the new system:
- Have search results return page headings or other recognizable entity title. * Be able to group or un-group search results by web/category/areas * Search results show context of search term or at least show highlighted search term in a section of the result. * Search results focus page on the results not fill the page with fluff * Search results are ranked. Not all hits should be treated equally. * Tool is easy to navigate through contents/menus to appropriate page * Adding new entries is intuitive and easy to accomplish. * Editing existing entries is intuitive and easy to accomplish. ** Provide options/support for importing existing (FOS Wiki) data.
Anyone out there who knows Mediawiki well enough to speak to the question of how it addresses the above, please let me know your thoughts. Thank you, -Anthony _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l