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by 411111111111111 1292 days ago
While closely related, i don't think it's really in the same market.

It's like comparing a pickup to a van. They're both largish cars with some storage potential, but the venn-diagram of people considering either as their personal vehicle is gonna be pretty small.
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capableweb 1291 days ago
Are they not? With words not related to cars, could you describe for what cases Confluence would work better than MediaWiki?
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411111111111111 1291 days ago
Collaborative live editing of documents including advanced macros, deep integration into Jira, bitbucket etc.

MediaWiki is a great tool, but it's not targeting Enterprise, basically.

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capableweb 1291 days ago
Collaborative live editing is available as a experimental feature: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Real-time_collab...

Obviously not ready for prime-time, but might get there in due time.

Advanced macros? As far as I've used both, I never had a macro in Confluence that couldn't also be implemented in MediaWiki. You can basically have access to the whole of PHP in MediaWiki so not sure what the limitation is here.

> deep integration into Jira, bitbucket etc

I mean, obviously. Which "open source corporate wiki" could even have as deep integration with Atlassian as a Atlassian product? Atlassian would never allow you embed non-Atlassian stuff into BitBucket. Why would they allow for example GitLab to embed their issues in their own product with as deep integration?

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