Features / Usability

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 01 May 2006 01:35 GMT-0000 posts: 4656

> What's the difference between them?

Articles are intended to be presented like news stories, I'd say. They each have a publishing time, topic (category) image, etc., that wiki pages don't have. So they are good for time-sensitive announcements, news stories, and so on. The way the top articles page (tiki-view_articles.php) presents an introduction for each article supports this.

Wiki pages are better for content that will be a continuing resource not so strongly associated with a particular time, maybe. Their organization is more "organic" and not so time-linked.

-- Gary - themes.tw.o

Posted by Oliver Hertel 01 May 2006 15:11 GMT-0000 posts: 9309

Other differences are:

An article has one author and only he (and admin or groups with the correct permissions) can edit that article again. Wiki pages can be edited by all users by default, and a history of all the changes is kept, where you can roll back to, if someone did something stupid.

Besides that, articles only appear in a list, newest first, oldest at the end, you can access them only by clicking through the list or if you know the unique article id. Wikipages have a name you can use to quickly access them, like

http://domain.com/tiki-index.php?page=NameOfYourWikiPage

Or if you use the example .htaccess file, you can even use

http://domain.com/NameOfYourWikiPage