Wiki Engine Review Standard Features

Standard Features of a Wiki

There is a core set of features that I think all wikis have.

This is not the same as a core set of features that characterize a wiki -- see Wiki<something>, this is just the core set that I found in the wikis I have tried so far. (Based on some comments (deletions) that I think SunirShah made, some people would consider only the first three of these as features that characterize a wiki.)

These will be mentioned in a review only by exception:

• Wiki pages can be created or edited by a significant portion of the user audience (often the entire audience).
• Typing a WikiName on a page creates an automatic hypertext link to the wiki page with that name.
• Most pages are named with a distinctive WikiName that is typically several capitalized words "scrunched" together (like WikiName).
• There is a means to list all the wiki pages.
• There is a list of the wiki pages which have recently been changed (RecentChanges)
• There is a means to find all the pages that link to a wiki page (so you can backtrack).
• There is a simple text formatting language that is not HTML or any other standard markup language. It is designed to be easy to use and readable in spite of the markups.

-- RandyKramer 11/??/00, last edit 12/05/00

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