On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Brianna Laugher
<brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
"The appeal of MediaWiki, the original
application written for
Wikipedia, goes far beyond the trademark look, navigation, and page
editing -- though there's clearly value in using software that most
users already know. Administrators should find MediaWiki simple to
install, upgrade, and maintain. Customization is trivial using
different skins or altering style sheers. Content contributors benefit
from time-saving features, including automatic table of contents
generation. And the system can do more by installing multimedia
features and extensions; some of these let you write mathematical
formulas or quickly build time lines."
Very kind of them not to mention the lack of built-in/well-supported
WYSIWYG and web control panel, broken support for website admins
without shell access or running in safe mode, terrible memory
footprint, complicated and slow parser, poorly-organized code,
systematic failure to review submitted patches . . . :) Good for us,
though.