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(1) 2008-02-22T00:38:14 Goals for a wiki system: Some goals for a better wiki system:
- HTML markup only! No restructured text, ad-hoc formats, etc. The lock-in is so awful in all of today's wikis. WYSIWYG editors are mature now- users should be able to pick WYSIWYG or full html.
- no training or external docs should be required to use all the features
- don't lose my scroll position when I want to edit some text I'm looking at
- encourage linking and creation of RDF data, probably with rdfa
- immediately exploit those links and metadata with easy searching/filtering/etc. Use FOAF data to limit my search to pages written by people I know, etc.
- keep the ownership clear (this is the opposite of some wiki philosophies). Spam cleanup should be very simple.
- encourage edits and especially annotations
A common case seems to be "add a new page and list it in some existing TOC section". Another one is "add a new section (paragraph or more) to this page". Editing words within an existing section that you didn't write, that might be rare.
I still like tinymce, although nelix_ isn't a fan.
Wikis that I use (that I'm trying to be better than) are: twiki, zwiki, confluence.
Related: rdf blog engine ideas
