I've been using MediaWiki for a while, but it just pisses me off. As in, I simply cannot use it without slapping my face against walls of spikes, because that at least gives me relief from the painful clumsiness of it.
For example, when you paste any text into its editor, the cusor moves. It doesn't go to the end of the text you paste in, or even the beginning, it goes to a random point in the
line before the text you paste in. Who is that helping?
If you copy text
from the editor, it inserts double spaces randomly. They don't match newlines or wraps or anything: they're just pointlessly inserted for NO REASON.
The only plugin that powers references (and I use a LOT of references) uses a pain-in-the-arse bunch of redundant syntax. Let me give some example code.
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The possibility of a 2.5D [[Oddworld videogames|Oddworld game]] was introduced to fans in June 2010 when [[AbeMudokon]] mentioned it in a conversation on Twitter.<ref name="twopointTwitter"/><ref name="twopointOWF"/> [[Just Add Water]] planned to announce ''Abe HD'' at E3 2011,<ref name="e3"/> but [[Lorne Lanning]] revealed the project in an interview with EGM, a fact that was published in January 2011.<ref name="egmreveal"/>
== References ==
<references>
<ref name="twopointTwitter">AbeMudokon (28 June 2010). ‘[http://twitter.com/AbeMudokon/status/17284049680 @dammit_rab how about 2.5?]’. Twitter.</ref>
<ref name="twopointOWF">Xavier (13 July 2010). [http://www.oddworldforums.net/showpo...&postcount=171 Post 171] in ‘Oddbox News’. Oddworld Discussion. Oddworld Forums.</ref>
<ref name="e3">Oddworld Inhabitants (29 January 2011). [http://www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...65852613451752 Status]. Oddworld Inhabitants’ Wall. Facebook.</ref>
<ref name="egmreveal">Upit1 (29 January 2011). ‘[http://www.gamersspot.com/index.php?...&news_id=66682 EXCLUSIVE: Lorne Lanning Creator of Oddworld reveals the plans to return to Oddworld.]’. Gamersspot.com.</ref>
</references>
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Pain. In. The. Arse. Especially when even my pathetic regex skills can come up with a neater solution.
God that felt good. And page redirects. There are no regex redirects. If I want everything that can be described by
^(o(dd)?w(orld)?(:)?)?a(be(')?s)?o((ddysee)|(dyssey))? to redirect to the Abe's Oddysee page, I have to manually add a separate redirect for each possible string.
Just a few examples for you there.