This is NOT a wiki at all – fake
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This is not at all a wiki. It’s a disgraceful fake. No wiki features AT ALL. It’s just standard WP static Pages, with a categories hierarchy, the standard editor. You can allow edits by others. All standard WP.
The only change is that these Pages can carry comments which is a useful little addition. But NOT a wiki.Their description says it converts WP sections to a “fully functional wiki. It also says The name suggests the same.
What kind of supposed wiki has no way to generate lateral links? The wiki movement wasn’t just about collaborative editing – which WP can do perfectly well. Wiki is about creating an instant new page with a double bracket round a word to construct it as the new page title.
Wiki pages are typically stuffed with links – a WP Page takes about 8 steps to create a new page, then copy its URL and bring it back to the original page. Do that 15 or 30 times just for one page and boy you really know the difference between wiki editing and a fake like this.A wiki will also give a list of all empty stubs, or brief text pages, so you can edit them to standard.
Plus if you quick test with the duble bracket syntax, a Preview will remind you if you already have a page of that name.The Encyclopedia plugin is more expensive but I found it better to pay up and get honest software that does a good job, than this cheaper rubbish that does nothing of the kind.
Oh and they told me that their description does not claim to create a wikipedia clone. No it doesn’t. It says it’ll make a “fully functional wiki” well a wiki is a wiki is a wiki. They are not static, editable pages. They are dynamic generative pages.
Avoid avoid avoid.
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