My personal opinion about Confluence and TWiki

1. Confluence vs. TWiki

2. What We Need?
• Knowledge sharing
– TWiki fit well
• Collaboration
– TWiki somehow can cover
• Easy to use
– TWiki has WYSIWYG editor but it’s buggy, sometime might break page
format completely
– Most of our engineer use “Raw Edit” to keep page format
– What about people that don’t know Wiki Markup?
• Link with other system
– JIRA? Code Review? Document Storage? SVN?

3. What We Can Do With TWiki?
• Project Wiki Page
• Project Technical Sharing
• Project Process Documentation
• Technical Guideline

4. What We Can Do MORE With
Confluence?
• Division Portal/Dashboard linked with JIRA
• Project Portal/Dashboard linked with JIRA
• MORE and EASIER technical sharing
– Personal Blogging
– Knowledge Sharing for non-technical person
• Know more on Wiki usage statistics
• Centralize dashboard linked with other
applications: JIRA, Crucible, Subversion,
Alfresco…

5. TWiki vs. Confluence
TWiki Confluence
Permission Controlled through internal group Controlled through LDAP
Can apply to Web Apply to Space, Page
Cannot apply per project if (using Page for project) User cannot see list of Space that they
User can see list of Web that they don’t have access don’t have access
Editor Rich Text Editor Rich Text Editor
Wiki Markup Wiki Markup (removed in 4.0)
Built-in macro Built-in macro (can add more via
Don’t have built-in layout, need to layout via HTML extension)
tag Have built-in layout template (1, 2, 3-
Prevent Concurrent Editor columns)
Advance Table Editor
Concurrent Editor (but sometime mess
up)
Versioning
Notifications Email Email (easy to configure than TWiki)
RSS RSS
Recent Updates gadgets
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Main/TWikiPresentations
http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/features/

6. TWiki vs. Confluence
TWiki Confluence
Discussion Comment (need plugin and macro inside Comment
page)
Personal Blogging
Tag Via plugin Built-in feature
Searching Simple (sometime cannot find content) Powerful (can search inside
attachment)
Office Integration N/A Can view PowerPoint, Excel, Word
inside a Page
Social Networking Via Plugin or Enterprise Support User can have Personal Space
Can form networking by “Adding
Friends”
Status Updates (like Twitter/Facebook)
Integration JIRA (via database plugin) JIRA
Fisheye & Crucible (via database plugin) Fisheye & Crucible
Alfresco Alfresco (plugin)
OSQA (via RSS plugin) OSQA (RSS)
SVN (web links) SVN (web links)
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