We love the advantages of wikis like easy access, quick edit, fast search, who changed what, rss feeds and alike.
Yet editing these pages is a real pain.
Adding pictures or tables is a nightmare with all the textile and markup editors. Even those who look for fancy wysiwyg editors have seen that editing through a webinterface is something you cannot do for more that 30 minutes.
Now with Word on Wiki, you can combine the advantages of both worlds. In a fully hosted solution, you can use MS Word to create and edit your pages (including drag and drop pictures, fancy editing, applying styles, decent table editing and alike). But at the same time, the wiki is available as a standard html (in all browswers, on all platforms) with the features you’d expect: history of who changed what, quick edit links on the pages, automatic toc, search and so on.
Why Use MS Word to edit your WIKI. It Might Be A Killer
Wiki editing is currently a real pain. Non-geeks are not likely to learn the weird textile or markdown syntax. Also the Wysiwig editing a lot of wikis offer leave a lot to be desired for. Almost always there is an ‘html’ button, that lets you edit the source text.
