Comparison To Other Online Collaboration Software
Due to MediaWiki's use on Wikipedia, most users are familiar with MediaWiki's functions and layout. Compared to other wikis, MediaWiki is also fairly aesthetically pleasing, though simple, and has an easily customized side menu and stylesheet. However, in one assessment, Confluence was deemed to be a superior product due to its very usable API and ability to better support multiple wikis. Wiki providers Socialtext and JotSpot have/had project management features that MediaWiki lacks.
A study was done at the University of Hong Kong comparing TWiki to MediaWiki. The authors noted that TWiki has been considered as a collaborative tool for development of educational papers and technical projects, whereas MediaWiki's fame is mostly due to Wikipedia. Although both platforms allow discussion and tracking of progress, TWiki has a "Report" part that MediaWiki lacks. Students perceived MediaWiki as being easier to use and more enjoyable than TWiki. When asked whether they recommended using MediaWiki for knowledge management course group project, 15 out of 16 respondents expressed their preference for MediaWiki giving answers of great certainty, such as “of course”, “for sure”. TWiki and MediaWiki both have flexible plug-in architecture. A study that compared students' experience with MediaWiki to that with Google Documents found that students gave the latter a much higher rating on user-friendly layout.
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