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| ====== What makes DokuWiki so great for Documentation? | ====== What makes DokuWiki so great for Documentation? | ||
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| ===== Wikis are good for documentation ===== | ===== Wikis are good for documentation ===== | ||
| - | * Easy to install | + | |
| * Easy to start: you can share unfinished content early, exposed to many eyes | * Easy to start: you can share unfinished content early, exposed to many eyes | ||
| * Have a simple, consistent page layout | * Have a simple, consistent page layout | ||
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| ===== DokuWiki is even better for documentation ===== | ===== DokuWiki is even better for documentation ===== | ||
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| * Easy to modify: | * Easy to modify: | ||
| * section editing | * section editing | ||
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| * table of contents for each page | * table of contents for each page | ||
| * Supports multiple ways of including code examples | * Supports multiple ways of including code examples | ||
| - | * Sophisticated but easily administrated access control through user friendly ACL and User Management GUI | + | * Sophisticated but easily administrated access control through user-friendly ACL and User Management GUI |
| * Simple but powerful Configuration Manager interface for control over features of not only DokuWiki core but also most plugins and themes. If you are not a PHP expert or don't have time to waste fiddling with conf -- no problem! :-D | * Simple but powerful Configuration Manager interface for control over features of not only DokuWiki core but also most plugins and themes. If you are not a PHP expert or don't have time to waste fiddling with conf -- no problem! :-D | ||
| * Datafiles are stored in plain text, so: | * Datafiles are stored in plain text, so: | ||
| - | * are readable even if your server goes down | + | * are readable even if your DokuWiki installation doesn' |
| - | * easy to back up, through server scripts or FTP/sFTP | + | * easy to back up, through server scripts or FTP/SFTP |
| * can easily be read, modified, compared, generated with external (non-wiki) programs | * can easily be read, modified, compared, generated with external (non-wiki) programs | ||
| + | * and easily moved from one DokuWiki-installation to another | ||
| * All those little gimmicks that make documentation fun: [[: | * All those little gimmicks that make documentation fun: [[: | ||
| * Huge amount of available [[: | * Huge amount of available [[: | ||
| * Maybe more I can't remember ;-) | * Maybe more I can't remember ;-) | ||
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