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Replies: 9 - Last Post: February 27, 2009 04:52
by: Alex Ruiz

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Alex Ruiz	Posted: February 15, 2009 15:47 by Alex Ruiz » Permalink
	Greetings, I'd like to thank you for creating Project Kenai. I'm a very happy user. I also have a suggestion. I'd like to have Confluence instead of the provided wiki. I've been using Confluence for some years now and it is the best wiki out there. Thanks, -Alex

john_brock	Posted: February 15, 2009 17:29 by john_brock » Permalink
	Hi Alex, Thanks for the props. Yes, Wiki is definitely one of the areas that we need to beef up a bit. What is it about Confluence that makes it the best wiki in your mind? --jb The Project Kenai Team

Peter Reiser	Posted: February 15, 2009 20:17 by Peter Reiser » Permalink
	Maybe we could integrate Kenai with wiki.sun.com which runs on Confluence ..

Alex Ruiz

Posted: February 15, 2009 22:01 by Alex Ruiz

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Hi John,

When I said that that I Confluence is the best wiki, I forgot to mention that that is my humble opinion only Grin

The following are the things I like about Confluence:

1. Eye candy: Confluence is a very good-looking wiki
2. WYSIWYG editor
3. It occupies the whole screen real state, not a fixed width
4. A lot of formatting options, including Java source code
5. Creation of static pages from wiki content
6. Overall it is a good quality-product

Thanks! Smile

-Alex

Terry Gardner	Posted: February 20, 2009 15:14 by Terry Gardner » Permalink
	I must respectfully disagree. MediaWiki is by far the best Wiki platform. Simple, effective, flexible, non-restrictive. Confluence is most likely the worst Wiki platform when measured by these standards. IMHO.

Alex Ruiz	Posted: February 25, 2009 01:15 by Alex Ruiz » Permalink
	Terry, I sincerely respect your opinion It would be nice if we were given more than one option for wikis (Confluence, MediaWiki, etc.) Just like we are given more than one option for issue tracking. (I know, maybe I'm asking too much) -Alex

eric_armstrong

Posted: February 25, 2009 02:15 by eric_armstrong

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I've used Confluence, and I've loved it. Of course, it's not exactly open source, but it demonstrates the value of the paid software model (real documentation, real functionality, terrific support and near-real time response from I forget his name--the Confluence maven who is always there with an answer when you need it.)

Mediawiki is very powerful, and has a huge body of plugins. And it's like, free. But I detest the markup language. It's one of the early ones, which is why it's so mature, but the language is somewhat less than truly reader-friendly.

The "sweet spot" in that arena is RDoc, to my way of thinking. (And it's a Ruby module.) The only problem is that it's an API documentation language, and not a Wiki language. But all it really needs is a Wiki-link token to fix that--like maybe the [[xxx]] syntax currently in use. (I'm not in love with it, but I don't hate it.)

wilfred	Posted: February 25, 2009 08:11 by wilfred » Permalink
	+1 on Confluence

eric_armstrong	Posted: February 27, 2009 01:24 by eric_armstrong » Permalink
	Uh, yes... Everybody likes it. But who's gonna pay for it? :_)

Alex Ruiz	Posted: February 27, 2009 04:52 by Alex Ruiz » Permalink
	At least, Confluence is free for open source projects. Kenai will still need to pay for hosting though. BTW, I'm not related to Atlassian at all. -Alex

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