What do you need in a Wiki?
February 23rd, 2009
There are tons of features that vendors put in wikis. Yet we think that 80% of them is never used and just gets in the way of a good user experience. The art is to build something simple, without being simplistic. If you browse www.wikimatrix.org, you’ll be amazed about the featuritis.
So what will we do:
- Easy, yet powerful
- Simple interface
- Focus on key features
So this is our list of killing key features:
- Create wiki pages automatically. E.g. entering [[Cats]] creates a new page.
- Wysiwig editing for lists, tables, pictures. Support drag and drop.
- Automatically create 1/table of contents, 2/table of wanted pages and 3/ list of recent changes
- Multiple versions of a page. Go back to a previous version. Make visual diff’s between page versions.
- Simple privileges scheme: admins, writers and readers. Applied to the whole wiki, a subpart, or a page.
- RSS.
- Export wiki to static html pages.
Everything which is not on the list, we don’t do. If you think we miss something, please reply to this post. We intend to develop our roadmap, based on the feedback we get here.