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I am migrating my site to MediaWiki to make it easier to maintain.

I hope that you like it.

Why Wiki?

MediaWiki makes it easy to incorporate computer code in web pages.

Other sorts of markup can be generated automatically:

From: What You See Is Wiki — Questioning WYSIWYG in the Internet age

The Documents Essence

• Brooks Prediction 1986: "We will not see advances of scale in programming until we separate accidental tasks from essential tasks."

• Transferring this to web authoring:
  • Accidental Task: Formatting Layout
  • Essential Task: Information + Basic Structure (Emphasis & Linking)

• Wiki Markup is part of the essence of a document – teach the public!

and

"Features like site maps , breadcrumbs , and other structural elements must become browser commands. Extracting information space navigation from the website will liberate users from the whims of Web designers and ensure consistent and standardized navigation features.

The Web's history has shown that people use generic commands like the Back button far more than intermittent features, which, when they are available -- and users can actually find them -- tend to look and work differently on different sites."

From Time to Make Tech Work Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox: September 15, 2003