- Drupal doesn’t offer as clean of a diff function as mediawiki does. There’s probably a module to make it display better though, but I personally find it much easier to follow the diffs in mediawiki.

- yes, I think Mediawiki’s categories, etc… can be used. But n00bs won’t grok them, so you’ll need to provide some support. Novices get how to use dropdown menus for taxonomies. They don’t get how to add [Category:whatever] to categorize stuff (even though it seems simple to geeks).

- for inter-page navigation, I’m meaning the table of contents generated to list all pages in a book. Similar to the navigation block that MediaWiki generates for a single page, but spanning multiple pages and reflecting the hierarchical structure of the pages, rather than the semantic headings within a page. Makes it easier for people to navigate a set of pages if that level of UI is taken care of automagically.

Mediawiki enjoy me on thoses points :
-scalability (I think to th big wikipedia)
-interwiki link
-langlinks
-extension
-semantic mediawiki
- power of models concept
-reuse of models from wikipedia
-inclusion capabilities from wikipedia
- simily script language with extension like ParserFunctions and StringFunctions

What of those thinks are’nt in Drupal

Specially to D’Arcy
- do you know where It should be possible to see a Drupal site with open editing user access which let all or a set of users edit the site or part of th site ?
-In which way don’t you find that versioning/revisions is harder to follow in Drupal than in a MediaWiki ?

Specially to Chris L
-Is it really more difficult to obtain a nice print of an article in Drupal than in Mediawiki. I thing tha it’s a great functionnality of Mediawiki to be able to give a print without the menu and other stuff which have no utility on a piece of paper. Do you confirm ?
- In wich way, Drupal seems to have eclipsed WP in most of the ways relevant to you ?
Norman :
- don’t you thing that is possible to use model’s mediawiki concept, catagorisation and DPL extension to structure individual pages into a navigation hierarchy ?
- What do you means by generates inter/page navigation automatically ?

But, yeah – the shared editing by a group is one of the cool features of Drupal. Something I’ll have to keep in mind as an option here.

Combined with the ability to restrict which kinds of content can be created/edited by specific “roles” of users, it could be a really cool way to let others play in the sandbox…

10. You check your blog stats a LOT. You occasionally
get up in the middle of the night and sneak a peak.

9. Your significant other suspects you are having an
affair with your blog. Even when you’re alone with
your special person, you do find yourself thinking
what your blog might be doing right then…

8. You “mental blog” while driving or on the
train, and sometimes even when you are alone in the
shower.

7. You filter everything through your post-writing.
You can’t watch a movie, see a play, read an
article, or share a sweet moment with your child
without thinking of whether it’s blog-worthy.

6. You suffer from “blog envy” when another
blogger posts something juicy before you do. You
suffer “comment envy” when said post gets
40-something comments – the jerk!

5. You “binge blog” 3 or 4 posts at once—only
to feel guilty and empty afterward.

4. You ditched all your real friends for blog
friends, because, well, “they understand.” You
bypass [4]Bowling Alone at the bookstore (who really
cares?) while you reach for [5]Naked Conversations.

3. You think, “I can stop at any time.”

2. Your lunch hour has become your “blog hour.”
You keep a few posts tucked in your desk in case you
need them during the day.

1. After 5 minutes of meeting someone really
interesting you ask, “So – do you blog?”

This post was co-written with Ann Handley

Source:
http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2006/05/addicted_to_blo.html

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#11. you install software with a “Book” content type in the interest of writing even longer articles.