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Bernard:
Based on schema I've worked on, correct backward referencing is always hard.
Recently, I've been using the commercial wiki product from Atlassian called Confluence.
Confluence has 2 features that really set it apart, and justify real $s for the product. First is the backward link consistency, as mentioned previously.
The other is edit journaling. As you type in the wiki page form, Confluence is journaling your edits up to the server (xmlhttprequest, aka, ajax, I'm assuming). Have you ever started a form and switched to email, broke for dinner, and accidentally closed the window when you didn't mean to?
Well, with Confluence the next time you visit or edit that page, you're alerted that there's an unfinished edit on the page and would you like to resume those edits or discard them. I've come back to pages I forgot I was editing 6 months ago and had it remember!
Cool beans, IMHO.
On the other hand, Confluence does not have any forum or maillist features, and those turn out to be really valuable when collaborating, to created a permanently logged multi threaded discussion. (Page comments don't have the threaded structure and don't cut it for, say, collaborative design docs on a wiki.)
Based on schema I've worked on, correct backward referencing is always hard.
Recently, I've been using the commercial wiki product from Atlassian called Confluence.
Confluence has 2 features that really set it apart, and justify real $s for the product. First is the backward link consistency, as mentioned previously.
The other is edit journaling. As you type in the wiki page form, Confluence is journaling your edits up to the server (xmlhttprequest, aka, ajax, I'm assuming). Have you ever started a form and switched to email, broke for dinner, and accidentally closed the window when you didn't mean to?
Well, with Confluence the next time you visit or edit that page, you're alerted that there's an unfinished edit on the page and would you like to resume those edits or discard them. I've come back to pages I forgot I was editing 6 months ago and had it remember!
Cool beans, IMHO.
On the other hand, Confluence does not have any forum or maillist features, and those turn out to be really valuable when collaborating, to created a permanently logged multi threaded discussion. (Page comments don't have the threaded structure and don't cut it for, say, collaborative design docs on a wiki.)
by Rod on Feb. 14 2007
