Wiki recommendations -- Practical Experience

[Patton Echols]

Chris G wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:10:11AM -0400, Jared Greenwald wrote:
>   
>> Another opinion....  The previous group I worked in, I used (and
>> personally setup) MediaWiki since that's the standard wiki format that
>> most people are used to and it has quite a lot of features.
>>
>> The group I'm currently in uses MoinMoin as we're more of a
>> developer-centric group.  One good thing I've found is the editmoin
>> utility.  I hardly - if ever - use the web interface to edit wiki
>> pages any more since editmoin coupled with vim syntax highlighting
>> allows you to see the structure of the doc better than the plain
>> editor on the actual wiki.
>>
>>     
> I absolutely agree on this front, 'techie' users will want a decent
> editor to edit the wiki pages rather than the textarea provided by the
> Wiki. 
>   

Yeah, makes sense for the tech users.  My users would run away screaming 
if you said they had to use vim.  But as long as it's an option, not a 
requirement.