
I installed a test MediaWiki last week, and I've been using it the last couple of days to take notes during an inservice.
I really, really like the auto-generated table of contents you get when you structure your document using the heading markup:
==Level 2 Heading==
===Level 3 Heading===
(The page title automatically gets Level 1 heading)
I find the way it handles multiple submissions to the same page very interesting, too; you can always edit the entire content of a page, but each major content section (as delineated by heading, I think) receives its own [edit] link - and when you use those links, only that section's content is put into the edit form. Not terribly useful when the content of the page is likely to change a lot, but for future management it will be great to drop into a discrete chunk of content without having to scroll through a mess of wiki text.
Tagged:
1 comment
I've enjoyed using MediaWiki
I've enjoyed using MediaWiki since I started with Wikipedia... and it was the flavor of Wiki that we installed at work where I am now. It's my third wiki, and I definitely like it the most.
I wouldn't call it perfect; it's a bit bloated in some respects, and some of the tags are much more annoying than their alternatives (for example ''this'' is more verbose than _this_ and '''this''' is downright obnoxious compared to *this*).
I don't like some of the formatting of definitions (but haven't gotten involved enough to try different skins). ; definitions : like this are especially weird.
All in all, though, it does seem to be best-of-breed. It looks clean, it works fast, and the diffing and "talk" features are ueber-cool.
I recommend it highly.