Confluence is "enterprise ready" i.e. has a lot of features that
MediaWiki doesn't have and that the public Internet community
typically doesn't care about.
Confluence is based on an open source wiki engine,
www.snipsnap.org,
which unfortunately is stalling. (But is still one of the best engines
out there IMO.)
Cheers,
Dirk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:41 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 26/02/2008, effe iets anders
<effeietsanders(a)gmail.com> wrote:
well, confluence *does* offer wysiwyg, in
contrary to mediawiki...
Lack of good WYSIWYG in MediaWiki is a major problem for wider
acceptance of the software. This is a well-understood problem, if an
as yet unsolved one :-)
There are some WYSIWYG editors for MediaWiki, but they're not that
great beyond the basics of wikitext. Anything fancy is fraught with
difficulties.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WYSIWYG_editor
Good WYSIWYG is mostly blocked on a good wikitext grammar. Steve
Bennett is leading the effort to write one on wikitext-l:
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitext-l/
You can see work so far at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markup_spec/ANTLR
Once that's done, WYSIWYG editor writers won't have to try to
reverse-engineer wikitext themselves.
- d.
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