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Textile based alternatives to Confluence? (now that wiki editor is gone in confluence v4)

samjones6

I am trying to love confluence v4, but it ain't happening. I have started using notepad again for my work in progress and other working documents.

I need to go back to a wiki system, that auto saves, has revision history, and those other good things.

Any suggested "traditional wiki" tools, preferably that are textile based?

Thanks!

Accepted answers

samjones6

Our favorite tool... the wiki tool from Bob Swift and this "back converter": http://www.amnet.net.au/~ghannington/confluence/wikifier/rt/

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Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]

Many things you mentioned, auto drafts, revision history etc are still available. Only thing that you are missing is wiki markup.

Confluence Source editor is the alternative for wiki markup and you might find it useful. You will surely need some time to adjust to the new XHTML syntax and will probably need some time to get over wiki markup!

Thomas Schlegel

Isn't it some kind of "blasphemous question" to ask in an Atlassian Forum ?

LOL

Thomas

Bob Swift

Why not continue to use wiki markup in Confluence? See Confluence Wiki Plugin .

samjones6

Jobin, Thanks! The best choice is probably for me to set up a confluence 3.5 system. However, since confluence is now a dead end for those of us who want a traditional wiki editor, I am (sadly) looking for alternatives to confluence . Let me know if you have any suggestions!

samjones6

the wiki plugin... dunno... link seems dead? (or a login is reqd?)

Bob Swift

Oops, it should have had anonymous access as well - that is fixed now. Also it is on the Plugin Exchange

samjones6

Bob, Thank you!

This looks very cool. However I don't think it will help me since we already did the migration from 3.x to 4.2.

I would need, minimally, a plugin that lets me tag a (say a new page) page as "wiki markup forever" so all editing would always be done in wiki markup mode for that page.

I also need the editor to be fast, and to suppress all the wizbang stuff in the 4.2 RTE.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Yes, it's blasphemous, but sadly very valid. If the heretics don't ask, they silently go elsewhere. If they do ask, at least there's a chance to convert them back.

(And I speak as a heretic - I'm really struggling without wiki markup - it's simply not working for me)

unknown

Bob, you're my hero!

(Note to self: read whole post before firing off snippy reply).

For the last 3 months I've been telling people (who've been using Confluence for a long time in a random, unstructured way and were unimpressed) just how great it *can* be. I wasn't looking forward to the backlash when all my PR work gets tainted by the interestingly wacky learning curve on the new editor. Or editing XML. This plugin will give me some control over that.

Oh, and thank you, also for the table-plus macro. It's ace.

Edit: Sorry, samjones -- I was just trying to reply to Bob, not burble in a non-answer to your question. But while I'm on the subject, I've heard there's a github wiki but I don't know if it's textile-based.

samjones6

Our favorite tool... the wiki tool from Bob Swift and this "back converter": http://www.amnet.net.au/~ghannington/confluence/wikifier/rt/