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IMHO, CamelCase is a feature of some wikis, but not a requirement. In fact, some wikis I'm using now turn CamelCase off by default, because there is a lot of text (esp code snippets that use camel for var naming) that you don't want as links.

On the other hand, I consider forward referencing non-existent pages a "gotta-have" for wiki use. It's the convenience of partitioning your information on the fly and referencing the future pages as you type that makes a wiki especially quick/productive for capturing information. Related to that, referencing the pages by title, and not numeric codes, is almost equally important.

Finally, one feature that separates the really good wikis from the...um...less good wikis, is whether you can rename a page and all of the refs to that page are updated. Wikis that lack a "backward reference" to the pages that refer to them aren't able to support this feature.

Imagine, if you realize a page has a really bad title, but you're faced with finding and fixing the 2 dozen pages that refer to it if you rename...that's not a good thing.

All opinions IMHO, obviously.

PS: Can't wait to try the yacs wiki, but I'm stuck on Home page error in 7.1 beta

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by Rod on Feb. 12 2007