On 1 January 2011 15:03, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
It doesn't have ease of use at all. What it has is a features list and a sales team.
In terms of ease of use, my current workplace has an official Plone-based intranet and a few less-official MediaWiki installations. Our office wiki is ridiculously easier to actually use than the Plone site, despite the lack of WYSIWYG (FCK was pretty good, but not quite good enough). The Plone site is a write-only
... document graveyard. It's where documentation goes to die, unloved and unnoticed. The wiki is what people actually read and update.
But I do think WYSIWYG could give it about eight times the participation.
So, yeah. I'm picturing a happy world of bunnies and flowers where the MediaWiki tarball includes WYSIWYG right there and people use an office wiki as the massively multiplayer office whiteboard it should be, and the sysadmin gets treated like a hero with very little work. Because MediaWiki is very little work. And we like to be treated like heroes every now and then.
- d.