Indeed, changes can quickly be removed, and different versions of documents can easily be compared with each other.
No long learning process is necessary.Ī further argument for MediaWiki is its protection against vandalism. Whoever has already modified a Wikipedia article will experience no difficulties working with TWiki. Still, TWiki documents can also be easily edited. A wiki should be specially tweaked to fit the individual needs of a company. A company does not need a lexicon rather, it needs a complement to the intranet – a complement based on a wiki. The demands of a web encyclopedia are focused on articles. MediaWiki was developed exclusively for Wikipedia and its needs.
Twiki vs mediawiki software#
“If Wikipedia is this successful, then we need merely use this software and we will also be successful.”
Managers see the success of the web lexicon and conclude: The software used for Wikipedia is MediaWiki, and that is a killer argument for this application. However, TWiki has maintained a low profile in the larger media, and many managers have not yet recognized the potential of this powerful application. This means that the system-oriented TWiki is – next to the article-centered MediaWiki – the most successful as well as the best developed open-source wiki for use in corporate intranets. More than two millions of users worldwide are working with the Perl-based wiki system TWiki. Wikipedia successful = Intranet successful?
Siehe auch den deutschsprachigen Artikel zum Thema.