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Because editing wikis is an excruciating experience. Just look at the edit page... it's a textarea with strange icons above it, and the most fucked up formatti
by sam_in_nyc 18y ago
Because editing wikis is an excruciating experience. Just look at the edit page... it's a textarea with strange icons above it, and the most fucked up formatting you've ever seen.
I'm technically inclined but I shutter at the idea of having to write anything in a Wiki, because the syntax is so unintuitive and annoying. I seem to recall adding line breaks, and it NOT showing line breaks on the preview. It was one of the use user experiences I've ever had: some fucktard decided that hitting "enter" wasn't enough to add a "<br>" to the content, so I have to go and dig through documentation to find out how to do it. Pisses me off thinking about it.
- jrockway 18y agoSure, if you use MediaWiki that's true. As far as I know, nobody uses that for internal corporate wikis; that is what wikis like Socialtext are for.
- ahoyhere 18y agoSocialtext! Hahaha. There was a time once, when I was paid to work on Socialtext... but I'll spare you. Let's just say that Socialtext is not the usability professional's answer of choice to MediaWiki.
- jrockway 18y agoI am fairly familiar with the backend (lots of bitter Socialtext friends), and hate to recommend it for that reason, but the UI seems nicer than MediaWiki. Also, I like to shill Perl whenever possible. :)