Wikis finally go WYSIWYG
Sourceforge.net, the open source development platform, has announced that all of their projects are going to have wikis available to them – this is a major advance because so few of these projects have sufficient documentation – actually many have none at all!
Sourceforge’s user community numbers in excess of 1.5 million people, so their choice of wiki is quite a big deal. The obvious choice seemed to be Mediawiki – the tool that powers Wikipedia – because Mediawiki is well proven and is open sourced itself.
But Sourceforge has gone with Wikispaces. I took a little time today to review the Wikispaces offering and I’m quite impressed. The key benefit of Wikispaces is usability: It has a WYSIWYG editor (more like writing in a word processor), so unlike Mediawiki, you don’t have to learn any codes.
Will this mean the end to the empty wiki syndrome? Does this make the wiki a usable project tool? Well try it out; there’s a free, hosted, advert supported trial option!
— Philip Greenwood
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