====== What makes DokuWiki so great for Documentation? ======

===== Wikis are good for documentation =====

  * Easy to start: you can share unfinished content early, exposed to many eyes
  * Have a simple, consistent page layout
  * Easy to create and maintain structured, up-to-date documents:
    * collaborative
    * easy to access through the web, with simple login or without any login
    * easy to modify, no need to know HTML
    * easy to link pages
    * easy to create simple and consistent pages
    * easy to search
    * easy to extend with external pages
  * Don't need to go to another colleague or IT dept to update the documentation = low resistance to keeping documentation up to date.

===== DokuWiki is even better for documentation =====

  * Easy to modify:
    * section editing
  * Automatic services:
    * future links: links to non-existing pages are red
    * backlinks
    * inner indexing
    * revision handling
    * table of contents for each page
  * Supports multiple ways of including code examples
  * Sophisticated but easily administrated access control through user-friendly ACL and User Management GUI
  * Simple but powerful Configuration Manager interface for control over features of not only DokuWiki core but also most plugins and themes. If you are not a PHP expert or don't have time to waste fiddling with conf -- no problem! :-D
  * Datafiles are stored in plain text, so: 
    * are readable even if your DokuWiki installation doesn't work anymore
    * easy to back up, through server scripts or FTP/SFTP
    * can easily be read, modified, compared, generated with external (non-wiki) programs
    * and easily moved from one DokuWiki-installation to another
  * All those little gimmicks that make documentation fun: [[:wiki:syntax#footnotes|footnotes]], [[:abbreviations]], syntax highlighting
  * Huge amount of available [[:plugins]] for your specific needs
  * Maybe more I can't remember ;-)