Evaluations of Platforms

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Contributor Experience

	MindTouch	MediaWiki	Wordpress	Drupal
account self-registration	simple form; select password on sign-up form; currently a problem with the captcha	simple form, no captcha; select password on sign-up form	simple form, no captcha; password emailed to you	simple form, no captcha; registration confirmation emailed, email a bit slow
to edit/create content	"Edit Page" and "New Page" links on each page WYSIWYG editor, can switch to HTML by default, new page is child of current page	"edit" link on every page create new page by clicking existing link to non-existant page, or entering URL directly wiki syntax for editing, can enter HTML directly	by default, new content is NOT child of current page; choose a parent page in sidebar WYSIWYG editor	"Add content" link on every page "Edit" tab on every page (can't edit Home page)
using a template for a new page	when adding new page, presented immediately with template choices	can include a template in a page by referencing it with a macro: `Template Name` templates can have parameters, values will be plugged in to template: {{Name Of Page \| param1=value1 \| param2=value2 \| param3=value3 }}	available plug-ins are for Pages (only Posts) modified one plug-in to support Pages further modified to support multiple templates -> it can be done	on creating new page, author selects a 'content type' content types can have default content i.e. a template
URLs	pretty e.g. "Component_APIs/Inline_Edit" by default, based on initial page name	reasonably pretty, but not hierarchical i.e "index.php/Inline_Edit"	pretty, hierarchical e.g. "component-apis/inline-edit/"	reasonably pretty ("?q=content/framework-api") can be made better if desired (can't right now running concurrently with MindTouch)
adding links to other pages into a page	"insert link" automatically searches for existing pages that match link text; selecting fills in link also a "browse" option with nice interface	wiki syntax using page name e.g. "[[Inline Edit]]"	"insert link" presents "link to existing content" option for selecting page	need to know url of other page format is "?q=content/<url>" (a bit unintuitive)
adding live JS to a page	can edit page in source mode and simply add <script> tags can edit source to insert an <iframe> if need be	with 'raw html' turned on, can embed html, including <script> tags, inside <html> tags can include <iframe> in the html tags	can choose HTML in editor and then include <script> tags can include <iframe> in the html source	can edit page in source mode and simply add <script> tags requires "Full HTML" instead of "Filtered HTML"
commenting on pages	comment form available	link to "talk" page at top of every page	comment form available	comment form available
tagging pages	tags displayed on page edit link presented with tags have to save a new page before adding tags	no tags, categories instead add a page to a category by placing [[Category:Name]] within the page a page's categories can be displayed on the page	categories and tags not native to Pages (only Posts) plugins for adding tried one, adds categories and tags, but: categories and tags not being displayed on page	tagging supported

Administration

	MindTouch	MediaWiki	Wordpress	Drupal
Modifying main menu	Nice web-based interface need admin priviledges	edit theme's main PHP file on server menu built from array of string	Nice web-based interface need admin priviledges	Nice web-based interface need admin priviledges
creating/updating left-side navbar		modified the DynamicSidebar extension: adds sidebar based on category of current page	pages can be organized hierarchically (using web interface) can use PHP to check if a page is in a given part of the hierarchy, and if so, show particular menu contents of menus can be set using web interface	Book module might be used to create menus each section could be a 'book'