QUOTE(anthony @ Tue 30th June 2009, 6:20am)
What features are lacking in Mediawiki?
Lots. It would be great for a more conventional collaborative effort, such as a
corporate software or DB project, where you have control over the userbase.
But for writing an "encyclopedia", one that is wide-open to any random
net-loon for editing/disediting, it's crap.
I'd like to see a better, more sophisticated article editor--one that generates
article formatting automatically wizard-style, with titles, sidebars, and references
autoplaced.
Plus more sophisticated control of editor rights, if they're gonna leave
it wide-open. Think of all the insane vandalism and gaming they could reduce
if MediaWiki allowed certain restrictions on what new users and IP addresses
can do--perhaps they could be limited to working only on certain specially
tagged articles that need more work, or restricted in reversions or making
many small drive-by edits.
That would be far better than letting a gang of nutcase admins ban whole IP
address ranges, or be forced to use crude scripts like Huggle to trash/untrash
articles wholesale.......