For many purposes it may be the best wiki around. MediaWiki has some nice features, in particular its internationalization support. There are various wiki feature comparison matrices on the net, and if you skip commercial candidates like Sharepoint and Confluence, and skip Google Sites because it's limited in many ways then it seems MediaWiki, TWiki and TikiWiki are more or less the main contenders). (It also turned out to be the only serious new candidate. It's a bit like a Wikipedia, so I started looking at MediaWiki as an obvious implementation candidate. Now I've started some consulting for a new web site that obviously needed a CMS. It's very flexible, with a powerful template-based user interface and a solid collection of plugins.That bridge is so easy to cross that I don't consider it a downside at all). (In case you are wondering - the only major downside as far as I can see is slow search when you have tens of thousands of topics. I haven't needed to do that yet, but it's obviously a big plus compared to XWiki and most other wikis. Its file-based storage is easy to understand, and gives me a confident feeling - an admin user with a text editor can access the page data directly to fix things if needed, run scripts, etc.Its default interface is nice-looking and not too cluttered (big score against TikiWiki).Some of the things that I really like about TWiki are very subjective, but I'm going to list them anyway: (See part 1 of this post for some background).
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