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0 pointsdetaro4y ago0 comments

I fully agree that you can train users for a lot. But the question is if it's worth doing so in the specific case. And wikis often already have trouble with people not using them enough, making them seemingly hard to use doesn't help.

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skinkestek4y ago

Don't forget that in many ways some real wikis like Dokuwiki are simpler and more user-friendly than Confluence:

- you can edit a paragraph without locking or creating conflicts for the whole page

- it is much faster, and as far as I can see the observe–orient–decide–act loop is a real thing and should be taken into account

- much better wiki syntax (compared to old Confluence)

- trivially extensible so you can create forms and other helpers to make it simpler for users to do the right thing

- if one absolutely need it I think there exist at least one wysiwyg extension for Dokuwiki

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