This isn't the answer you're looking for, but here's what worked at my organization. When we rolled out MediaWiki, the big message to the team was:
"Just type."
Put blank lines between your paragraphs and click Save. That's it.
That`s exactly my current approach :) 'Keep it simple, don`t try to overformat things, be willing to delete a 100lines ones they get inaccurate or obsolete.'
And if you WANT to do formatting, here's a cheatsheet. But don't let that stand in the way of documenting what you know.
And we also have that one :)
Then we have a few motivated people who scurry around improving the formatting on other people's pages as they run across them.
ok, there we currently have only just ONE, but we`re working on it :)
It worked out well, even with the WYSIWYG die-hards.
It works here - but only with the pure technical staff (and even some of those guys are quite hard to change).
The bad things are: - users without basic wikicode expirience see wikicode mingled with content (inline links, formatting etc) and their initial reaction is 'i cannot read that - it`s too complicated', which is - although a purely psychological problem - a major factor with my users: 'if it does not behave like M$ Word, i cannot use it'. (Imagine a 'normal user' opening a page containing tables in edit-mode... ok, i`ve banned the use of tables, but even the little things like '===' or '*' come quite hard to most of them. - lacking ability to abstract content from design and/or the will to do so or to even try.
So i`m looking for a way to 'lower the bar'.
DanB
nevertheless: thanks :) dwe