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Two important aspects of being a wiki replacement, especially at a larger scale: - Group ownership of particular topics or sections of topics. This allows for
by structural 6y ago
Two important aspects of being a wiki replacement, especially at a larger scale:
- Group ownership of particular topics or sections of topics. This allows for things like "anyone on the team responsible for project X can edit/moderate things regarding their project"
- History of edits made to topics, linked to author. It's incredibly valuable organizationally to be able to see the evolution of knowledge, as well as provides protection from content deletion, both accidental and malicious.
- KajMagnus 6y agoThanks for the feedback! I've never edited a wiki as a member of a large organization. Talkyard does the things you mentioned, although it's not so discoverable: Most people don't think about clicking their way to the Category | Security settings, and looking at the checkboxes, and thinking about how to combine them to create a Wiki. Maybe Wiki features could be listed on the homepage, or at least in a feature matrix. And, when creating a new forum topics category, one could get a question about if it's going to be a Wiki topics category. * * * There's one Wiki feature that Talkyard lacks though: Easy linking between different pages. At Wikipedia, for example, one types: '[[Target page name#Target section|Link text]]' — there's nothing like that in Talkyard. A wiki main page shortcut link somewhere would be nice too (e.g. in the left hand sidebar). (I'm curious about if you use wikis where you are now, which Wiki software, and how do you like it?)