On 8/10/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:57:58PM +0100, Christiaan Briggs wrote:
For your interest, it looks like Apple has come to the party with a wiki of its own, without the need for people to learn markup language: http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/wikiserver.html
[ looks ]
Oh, it's a wiki with a WYSIWYG editor on the front.
Yeah, we've got that.
No... you don't. It sounds like Apple is shooting for, and has hit, a level of usability comparable to, say, Writely (or a variety of native apps). There are a lot of people who would use a wiki, that currently don't, if it was that friendly to interact with. They want a Word interface, not a text interface.
I know in the context of my own intranet, I know that Writely has had significantly higher uptake than MediaWiki (or even other similar tech) because it fits into a paradigm a lot of people are comfortable with.
Should MW be the "easy to use" wiki? I dunno. A good WYSIWYG implementation wouldn't hurt, though, if it were to happen to exist.
Rude responses need not apply. It's entirely possible to violently disagree politely. :)