Eric Seidel
Thanks for the link Alan.
I can personally attest to being intimidated by GHC's wiki when I started contributing. I think having a review mechanism in place would have helped, because then you at least know that one or two other people think your content is clear.
On a more minor note, I know the trac wiki has a history feature, but for some reason I find it much less useful than a git history. Perhaps this is just an issue of familiarity.
I agree, Trac's history feature is quite painful to use. I think that the issue runs deeper than just familiarity. Being restricted comparing revisions in a pairwise manner poses quite a usability problem. Git is simply far more powerful in this area which is one of the advantages that the new proposals process has relative to the Trac wiki. Thankfully, this power isn't strictly necessary for most of the non-proposal content currently in the Wiki. Cheers, - Ben