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What makes DokuWiki so good for Documentation?
Wikis are good for documentation
- Easy to install
- Easy to start: you can share unfinished content early, exposed to many eyes
- Have a simple, consistent page layout
- Easy to create and maintain structured, up-to-date documents:
- collaborative
- easy to access through the web, with simple login or without any login
- easy to modify, no need to know HTML
- easy to link pages
- easy to create simple and consistent pages
- easy to search
- easy to extend with external pages
DokuWiki is even better for documentation
- Easy to modify:
- section editing
- Automatic services:
- future links: links to non-existing pages are red
- backlinks
- inner indexing
- revision handling
- Supports multiple ways of including code examples
- Datafiles are stored in plain text, so:
- are readable even if your server goes down
- easy to back up, through server scripts or FTP/sFTP
- can easily be read, modified, compared, generated with external (non-wiki) programs
- All those little gimmicks that make documentation fun: footnotes, abbreviations, syntax highlighting
- Huge amount of available plugins for your specific needs
- Maybe more I can't remember
