I should add that I haven’t actually yet investigated the “wiki” functionality of Discourse. If anyone has, and has compared and contrasted functionality on Discourse with functionality on other wikis, I would be glad to hear of it. At present, it looks like the Wiki link on the sidebar just redirects to the main wiki.
Just as an experiment, I’ve turned this entry into a Discourse “wiki”. All it seems to do is to make the entry editable by anyone, which is fine, but not really a wiki … and, very confusing!
(Editing just to see what happens). Can you figure out who I am?
Yes I could Robert by looking at the history. But now is it possible to see the layered history? It does appear so, on the left you can go through the history.
This checks one feature of wikis. The other essential feature, of course, is easy linking by page title. Is that possible? Normally in most wikis it is done with [[double square brackets]].
Apparently not, then. I conclude that in Discourse, what they call a wiki post is just a post that is open to editing by other people. Cool enough, but no cigar.
So, if I say [[Wiki Homepage]], does that get picked up? No … I need to do it through the link menu… Wiki Homepage