[jeduan]

Honest question: how are these products better than, for example redmine and MediaWiki, if using them for personal/small team purposes?

[teamonkey]

I (and a few others) posted a reply to this question in a similar thread from a few days ago. Here's the link.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=867439

[cmelbye]

I find Confluence a lot nicer than MediaWiki. It's much better organized (organizing pages in Confluence seems built in, MediaWiki's "category" feature seems like an afterthought). Confluence also has useful features for collaboration with things like status updates. I'd give the free trial a go, and compare to see which one works best for you.

[shizcakes]

I had the same exact thought, not in a disparaging way, but if there's better stuff available, it'd be nice to know about it.