Team wiki software: 7 things to check before you pick one
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A wiki fails quietly: nobody can find anything, nobody trusts the last edit, and the one page that mattered was visible to the wrong people. Here are seven things to check before you pick team wiki software, with DEV3 Pagemoss as the worked example.

1. Can you see what changed, and put it back?
Trust follows history. Every save in Pagemoss is a revision with who, when and a note. Two versions compare side by side, with added, removed and moved blocks marked, and restoring adds a new revision instead of overwriting anything.

2. Is the editor pleasant enough that people use it?
Type a slash for a heading, list, table, code block, callout, image or file. Markdown shortcuts work, [[ links a page and @ mentions a colleague. If you prefer plain text, switch to Markdown mode and back without losing anything.

3. Who can see what, and does search respect it?
Spaces have a default role, groups and people get their own, and a single page can be restricted. A restricted page never appears in search results, backlinks, the page tree or exports for someone without access, and they get the same answer as for a page that does not exist.

4. Can two people edit at once without losing work?
Pagemoss is honest about this: one editor at a time per page, with an edit lock that names the holder and a request button, and saves that refuse a stale base with a conflict dialog instead of overwriting. It is not real-time co-editing, and the listing says so.
5. Can you publish answers to customers?
Publish any space as a public, unlisted or members-only help centre in your brand, on your own domain after a DNS check. Readers search, read and say whether an article helped; unpublished and restricted pages never leak.

6. Can you get your content in and out?
Import a zip of Markdown or HTML files with images, with a report of what was created and skipped. Export a space as Markdown, HTML or PDF. A scoped REST API with an OpenAPI document and signed webhooks covers the rest.
7. What are the limits?
Ask every vendor: search engine (MySQL full-text here, no external service), real-time co-editing (not included), proprietary import formats (Markdown and HTML only), custom domains (DNS and TLS at your proxy), and who runs payments (you do, simulated by default).

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