Intent

The intent of this topic is for you to list things that are not great about wikis with the hope that FlexWiki will address them at some point. They are not directed at FlexWiki but could be considered SuggestedEnhancements. Feel free to add your comments.

Wikis are a intended to be easy to use. It is the WikiWay. It is all about freedom. This lack of structure causes some problems though, especially for administrators. This topic lists things that are annoying but you may just have to suck it up to get the benefits that Wiki offers.

Annoyances

Annoyance	Comments
WikiTalk is not easy to use	Give me a break. It's a hell of a lot easier to learn HTML and Javascript than it is to learn how to use the FlexWiki language plus WikiTalk / WikiTalk is not easier than HTML. HTML is a CakeWalk. WikiTalk uses variables and is a lot like PHP or ASP or JavaScript, not HTML.
FlexWiki MarkUp does not consistently work in all places.	The use of a ":" can mean define a WikiProperty or provide a friendly name for a link. When defining a friendly name you can use spaces, when creating a property you can't. The latter makes sense from a programming point of view, but not from a user's. Also when using the various "import" function some give you raw MarkUp as the output, others properly do it. And just forget about getting half of everything to work in tables. FlexWiki really needs to define the stages of page processing to allow for clean imports of other text first, page layout (including tables second), topic link replacement next and finally text and other formatting last (with the view that most formatting become CSS based). -- JamesRoeSmith
No workflow to handle questions on topics.	For example, I want to make a note in a topic that says "This isn't clear" or "Can someone explain this further." If the topic has an owner then they might want to know a comment or request was made on the topic. This might make a good feature in FlexWiki where I could set a "TopicOwner" property on a topic. They would get notified when a new topic property like "TopicComment" or "TopicQuestion" was added. -- TimSmith
	This could easily be handled by placing an Owner WikiPageProperty on any topics that you own and then (perhaps in your WikiSignature) using some simple WikiTalk to display the topics, or their changes or whatever other information you wanted. I;ve put an example on my own WikiSignature page. All you need to then is to create a WikiNewsletter for your WikiSignature topic. -- DerekLakin [21-Jan-2005]
No CRLF in tables	I think this is specific to FlexWiki... but something that really annoys me is that I can't put multiple paragraphs in the Comments column of this table! -- TimSmith I figured out a way to do it but it is bogus that I have to use WikiTalk to accomplish this! Also, the text becomes small font! -- TimSmith WikiTalk is a language for including dynamic content in FlexWiki topics. 9/12/2007 3:15:49 PM - -10.10.192.22 Be sure to look at: WikiFeatureRequestNewlineSupport
I wish there were some easy/obvious way to get RecentChanges list via WikiTalk. For small intranet it would be very useful to put into one of the borders list of recently changed topics filtered != current viewer 1	...
Can't place Amazon links	http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0674643429 ..... so why not?!
I don't see your problem given that the url you pasted works just fine If you're talking about using ISBN numbers then take a look at ShowingISBNLinks -- DerekLakin [11-Feb-2005]
Word/Excell integration	We using FlexWiki alot in our startup, and one annoyance is the impendance between Office ability to spellcheck,calculated values in tables, WYSIWYG editing and Wiki space. Even simple two-way converter between Word format to/from wiki bangs & list notationations would have been incredibly helpful. Perhaps as simple as "office" mode for edit box, which will parse Office data paste-in. Further food for thought - using Word ActiveX as alternative edit box
Vertical Alignment in tables	Given that tables are allowed to have vertical alignment as well, would it be possible to put Top, Bottom and Mid alignment options into it? -- PaulFarry

¹ How about this then:

 @@namespace.Topics.SortBy{ each | 
        DateTime.Now.SpanBetween(each.LastModified) }.Snip(10).Collect{ each |
                [ "        * ", Presentations.Link(federation.LinkMaker.LinkToTopic(each.Fullname), each.Name), Newline ]
        }
 @@

Which gives:

It wouldn't take much to extend this further to display it in a table with the LastModified date or whatever else you want. -- DerekLakin [23-Feb-2005]