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Re: MediaWiki?
by ca on Tuesday 08/Mar/2005, @13:14

The look could certainly be better.

You don't have to switch to MediaWiki to change the look though.

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Re: MediaWiki?
by Ian Monroe on Wednesday 09/Mar/2005, @00:27

well, you would need to in order to get the wiki-syntax people are used to. Granted, transfering would probably be more work then benefit.

amaroK has a relatively new mediawiki at http://amarok.kde.org/wiki

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Re: MediaWiki?
by jmfayard on Wednesday 09/Mar/2005, @03:16

The benefits could be greater actually.
Aside that mediawiki with mediabook.css looks very clean,
with media wiki, people would feel "at home" and would
probably contribute more than what we currently have.
Many thanks to those who actually contributed (and yes, I did
make a small contribution), but the wiki is today rather poor.

Just compare the "Stay Informed about KDE Applications !"
paragraph on the main page http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php
with the equivalent on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_KDE_applications
or an entry of that list with the great wiki for amarok.

Oh yes, and we could borrow information from wikipedia
(or they from us).

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Re: MediaWiki?
by Anonymous on Wednesday 09/Mar/2005, @05:35

> with media wiki, people would feel "at home" and would probably contribute more than what we currently have.

Can you please elaborate this thesis so that I have a chance to understand it?

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Re: MediaWiki?
by MK on Wednesday 09/Mar/2005, @13:03

Not sure what the previous poster meant exactly, but for me the current KDE wiki (twiki?) looks much more confusing than the average mediawiki equivalent. Currently it looks like a combination of a forum / discussion board and a place to write about KDE. Additionally there are polls, number of online users and so on. In short: the current start page looks completely overloaded.

Also note that the syntax differs from the mediawiki syntax. Mediawiki, the software used for Wikipedia is probably by far the most known wiki syntax. This means that most persons who edit a wiki probably know the mediawiki syntax and it would make it a lot easier for them if they do not have to relearn a new syntax. Last time I checked I even had problems finding the "watchlist" equivalent of mediawiki. Furthermore I am not sure what support the current wiki engine has for multiple languages. The mediawiki engine is designed to support more than one language and allows interlanguage links.

Despite the critics a big thanks to Luci for his work!

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Re: MediaWiki? -- a job for konq?
by ac on Wednesday 09/Mar/2005, @13:25

It would be nice to have an option in Konq to have a wsiwyg replacement for textarea. For example, we could specify that a textarea of a certain name, on a certain domain, is for editing media-wiki style, and have the wysiwyg editor accordingly. (have it working for the most popular ones: BBcode, MediaWiki, TWiki etc...)

I believe the textarea is the most frustrating HTML widget, it would be nice to have option to make it more useable. (ie, the wisywig editor, kgpg integration for webmail, etc...)

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Re: MediaWiki? -- a job for konq?
by cm on Friday 11/Mar/2005, @08:14

Support in Konqi for the features required by http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/example.php?example=true would be very cool, too (not wiki-related, but still wysiwyg). I don't know the details why this doesn't work in Konqi at the moment, it currently only works with the usual suspects: Mozilla, MSIE and FireFox.

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Re: MediaWiki?
by charles samuels on Wednesday 09/Mar/2005, @08:15

Even easier would be to disable the "double click to edit" misfeature which is a usability nightmare.

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Re: MediaWiki?
by Geek Head on Friday 27/Oct/2006, @22:16

My comparison of MediaWiki and Twiki, for use for a corporate knowledgebase.

http://geeklog.blogspot.com/2006/10/wiki-comparison-mediawiki-and-twiki.html

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Re: MediaWiki?
by anonymous on Monday 26/May/2008, @17:35

@GeekHead FYI your link is open to invited readers only

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