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moved search commentary from "Ease of Use" to "Search"
| With 32,795,351 registered users on Wikipedia alone <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics</ref>, there is a good chance your staff and new hires have used MediaWiki before. With options to edit in WYSIWYG, wiki markup, and other advanced options, MediaWiki is just as accessible and easy to use for the Sales Manager as it is for the Engineering Intern. The mobile website and other desktop clients give many ways to search, view, and edit. Technical users might find it easy to use an IDE such as Emacs or Vim to edit text files without a browser. MediaWiki has interfaces to allow you to edit from a git repository <ref>https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Git-remote-mediawiki</ref>, or from desktop clients like LibreOffice.
Confluence wiki no longer supports editing with wiki markup - a decision that takes away ease of use for advanced users. Advanced Search macros (filters) require a proprietary language, Confluence Query Language (CQL) <ref>https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/search-724765412.html</ref>; while advanced search filters are built-in to MediaWiki
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| MediaWiki Search is powered by ElasticSearch - which is built on top of Lucene. Several members of Elastic Co engineering contributed improvements to Lucene in 2017 <ref>https://www.elastic.co/blog/this-year-in-elasticsearch-and-apache-lucene-2017</ref>.
Confluence Search is powered by Lucene, but doesn't have the breadth of syntax options and power of ElasticSearch<refname="search">Compare [https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/confluence-search-syntax-724765423.html Confluence Search Syntax] with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching MediaWiki Search Syntax]</ref> Advanced Search macros (filters) require a proprietary language, Confluence Query Language (CQL) <ref>https://confluence.atlassian.com/confcloud/search-724765412.html</ref>; while advanced search filters are built-in to MediaWiki <ref name="search" />
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