Standard wiki features


 * Needs to be merged with wiki features

This are requirements for all wiki engines. In order to deal also with semantic technologies, a list of standard semantic wiki features needs to be created.

What is a Wiki:
Todo: Align with http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiDesignPrinciples. Don't be too technical.


 * Version management: offers only a very limited support for collaboration.
 * A content syntax which is easy to learn, write and read (hence _not_ HTML)
 * Easy syntax for creating of links between articles (by title of page)
 * Creation of new articles by just linking to them (Agile Content creation, describe on demand)
 * No installation of specific tools needed (just a standard webbrowser) --> For your Boss: Low Total Cost of Ownership

Bottom line: Support collaborative editing by a "save" environment

Future / Advanced Wiki Features

 * automatic link detection as you type to avoid unnecessary redundancies
 * allowing/disallowing links to a resource (has been requested by many users in our company)
 * advanced change notification that goes beyond what exists today, examples:
 * automatically notify the user if a page related to the page he currently edits is changed
 * see live what other users are currently changing
 * merging of different user revisions (as e.g. the compare editor in Eclipse)

See also Category:Wiki.